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In January 2026, archive.today targeted this blog with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) in an attempt to take offline a blog post I had written about them back in 2024.

Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal blog.

Questions about scams are common on Travel Stack Exchange, particularly those where inventive scammers come up with sob stories about how they’ve been detained at the airport or can’t get a visa unless their victim sends them thousands of dollars.

Do you like reading articles in publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, but can’t afford to pay what can be hundreds of dollars a year in subscriptions?

In a world embracing instant digital gratification, I’d like to compose an ode to a quirky game where the average length of a move is measured in days and even paying money can’t speed things up.

Bubble glamping at Jewel Changi, a more successful pivot In February 2021, Singapore launched Connect@Changi (C@C), offering business visitors the tantalizing chance to brave pre-vaccine travel during the global COVID-19 pandemic, navigate a 12-step proce…

For the past year and half, many Singaporeans have come to expect the government’s daily COVID-19 case update at around 4 PM.

Singapore and Hong Kong recently announced what’s claimed to be the world’s first air travel bubble, meaning a controlled two-way corridor between largely coronavirus-free territories, with travel allowed for any reason and no quarantine required on either

Security guru Bruce Schneier invented the term “security theater” to describe the showy but time-consuming and largely ineffective security measures adopted by airports in the wake of 9/11.

TL;DR: The world is likely to soon be an archipelago of coronavirus-free islands in a sea of infection, and will remain so until an effective vaccine or treatment is globally available.