TWAS the Week 2 and 3 of 2025

The Rundown...

A couple of weeks in to the year and I have already fallen off the weekly publishing train. The Week As Steven was meant to be a personal review to spill my thoughts on the internet, but the last week has been one that I do not want to spill. My mother's illness has accelerated and we now have days rather than weeks. I have been spending time caring for her and the energy to write is simply not here. I am thankful for the hospice nurses who have recently stepped in to provide around the clock care.

I have been able to mostly stick to my triathlon training plan as a way to clear my head. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

The Watch List

• Black Doves - Starts off rather confusingly, but the development of Keira Knightley as a complex character navigating this unlikely story is very well done.
• Interstellar - Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in a Christopher Nolan film. You sometimes forget that McConaughey is a great actor when you just see him in Salesforce ads with his half brother.
• Missing You - Another Harlan Coben adaptation. Predictable, but a decent way to pass the time.
• American Primeval - "Tim Riggins" is solid in this fictional portrayal of the settling of Utah.
• Ad Vitam - Action packed French film. Sometimes hard to tell if you are looking at the lead, Guillaume Canet, or his doppelgänger, Patrick Dempsey.

The Linked List...

• 2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past - Archaeologists find a 2000 year old wine vessel, liquid still inside.
• 991 911 GT3 - the urge is strong for a P-sports car.
• 1970 Chevrolet C10 Pro Touring - this truck is absolutely wild.
• Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output - as titled.
• Magic/Tragic Email Links: Don’t make them the only option - wax eloquent on easy logins.
• Laid Off for the First Time In My Career, and Twice In One Year - an interesting personal account of job searching.
• How We Cracked a 512-Bit DKIM Key for Less Than $8 in the Cloud - a reminder that security teams need to be looking at internal configuration just as much as external threats.