Author: Clemens Gresser

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    2025 – looking back

    Welcome to 2026! I hope that you had a good non-festering season. Unless you did not engage with any form of media you will also have noticed many reviews of the last 12 months. If you haven’t had enough of those, this post might be for you!

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  • 3 of the 4 books mentioned in this post, on a table. From left to right: Aschenbrenner's Stretched for greater glory , Pungente 's and Williams's Finding God in the Dark, and Green's When the Well Runs Dry.

    505s – why we are so keen on them!

    Now, I’m not being overly pessimistic, but unless you are a cataloguer or meta-data specialist who knows their Marc21, 505 probably doesn’t mean much. Okay, there might the A505 going past your house, or that road might have taken you to places, or there might be another, worldly meaning of this sequence of digits, but…

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    Captain’s log #6

    Captain’s log #6. 21 November 2025. We have had a day of time travel last week: travelling back to the early 1990s. We went back for 1 day to a situation where we did not have any internet in the building. Reflecting on this is not a massive achievement of analytical prowess. Basically: we could…

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