Happy New Year folks.
Hoping 26 will be better than 25. :-)

In reply to Sirius B's message of 31 Dec 2025:

Happy New Year folks.
Hoping 26 will be better than 25. :-)

Hoping, yes.
Expecting, it'll probably be worse...

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Grant
Darwin NT.

Happy new year, and yes it is raining on the big parade.

Going with the crowd. Happy New Years Day.

The main site using this tablet is having trouble.
The tab header is "403 Forbidden".
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu) Server at setiathome.berkeley.edu Port 80

The other iPad has no problems.

Admiral, for the tablet having connection problems:
1) Make sure it's using https:// .. not http.
3) Also try deleting the cookie for the website and then try again.

If all else fails, not much you can do except tray again another day or time. It's probably the CloudFlare content/proxy management services/manager running interference.

In reply to Admiral Gloval's message of 1 Jan 2026:

Going with the crowd. Happy New Years Day.

The main site using this tablet is having trouble.
The tab header is "403 Forbidden".
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.

Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu) Server at setiathome.berkeley.edu Port 80

The other iPad has no problems.

I've been getting that on and off for weeks (months?).
Try a few times and it will eventually load.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

Happy New Year. I started my day off in style with no internet. Nice and quiet.

It would appear the bots are back- Seti times out more often than not, and it's slow, slow, [i]slow[i] when it finally does manage to load.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

I don't want to jinx it but... now all of a sudden the forums page very fast on initial load along with everything else.

Lot's of timeouts, and when it load, it's extremely slow.

And back to extremely fast again.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

Tonight I'm watching a couple of topics that are for me interesting, they might be for you too.
First I watched Skinwalker Ranch - Presentation by Ben Woodruff - January 10th, 2026, which has the Skinwalker Ranch biologist talk about some of the oddities he's encountered at Skinwalker Ranch. You can see some of that in The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, on the History Channel.

He pointed to two other documentaries, I'm watching one of them this moment.
- The Age of Disclosure (2025), talks about UAPs and the programs in the US intelligence that try to find and disclose the truth behind the odd things observed flying in the sky.
- Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters is a 2025 documentary by James Fox that revisits the 1996 Varginha, Brazil UFO incident, featuring new testimonies, including a neurosurgeon's account of communicating with an alien, set against recent US Congressional hearings on UAPs.

Might be interesting for Setians.

A great video indeed by Anton Petrov about S@h, signaled by David Anderson. If there is ever a SETI@home 2 project, count me in! 🙂

Anton Petrov made <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt07R_amRT8>a nice video</a> about SETI@home and the recent papers.

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Submit your name and a pin code for a boarding pass for the Artemis II mission! Send your name around the moon.
https://www3.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/

It has been nearly a month of slumber. WAKE UP!

I refuse to wake up right now... It's almost time to hit the pillow here. Zzzzzz

Time to wake up this sleepy topic. It's been 23 days since the last post.

Hope everyone has made it into some nice spring weather in the Northern Hemisphere and into fall down under.

The great sleep is over. https://originalhampster.ytmnd.com/