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Our changing world

9 April 2026

The world is changing faster than it ever has before.

AI has come out of nowhere and now threatens to put a huge number of people on the dole queue over the next few years.

Russia has proven that it is no longer the superpower it once was, having its nose well and truly bloodied by Ukraine in the "special military operation" that was scheduled to take no more than a week or two.

Climate change is really revving up and Kiwis are expecting yet another weekend of mayhem as a tropical cyclone strafes the North Island.

And, most worrying of all, the internet is being gated at every turn.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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