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document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyApr2025.htm\">The April Letterbox</a></p><p class = small>The Spy plays advice columnist for a distressed business owner.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyMar2025.htm\">Sic transit gloria mundi & A Modest Proposal</a></p><p class = small>The Spy comments on change and makes a modest proposal (apologies to Swift)</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyFeb2025.htm\">It\'s The Law</a></p><p class = small>Murphy and Unintended Consequences revisited.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyJan2025.htm\">Toll the Bell for the Old and the New</a></p><p class = small>A much less optimistic than formerly Spy makes predictions, some routine, others dismal. </p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyDec2024.htm\">The Tenth Month?</a></p><p class = small>The Spy muses upon calendar mathematics, networking with WI-FI-7 APs, a better? Homekit controller, and the fifth edition of his textbook on Ethical and Social Issues in Technology adoption.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyNov2024.htm\">Scary Days</a></p><p class = small>From Hallowe\'en to the U.S. election, a time of toxic politics and other goblins.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyOct2024.htm\">Populus Vult Decepti, Ergo Decipiatur.</a></p><p class = small> Want the people no truth? Let them eat deception. The Spy also has an initial report on a new network toy.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyJul-Sep2024.htm\">Back To School</a></p><p class = small>The vicissitudes of Summer 2024, batteries, books, and bemusedness, the political circus BC style, the wonderfulness and sometimes too-rapid pace of technology, obsolescence, and accumulated odds and ends. </p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyJun2024.htm\">May Flies, So Now June Bugs</a></p><p class = small>There are bugs in many of our systems: software, hardware, the political, the social, the justice system, ourselves. Where are things headed?</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyMay2024.htm\">May the Fourth Be With You</a></p><p class = small>Cinco de Mayo, alternate history, Mythopoesis, AI and AUI, eloquence vs content, and other matters that matter.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyApr2024.htm\">Tank The Prank</a></p><p class = small>The Spy eschews pranks for mundane topics such as AI and Transhumanism</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyMar2024.htm\">When The Months Go Marching On</a></p><p class = small>Implementing fully electric vehicles, the Spy\'s home network project, and the need to kneed the knee.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyFeb2024.htm\">To Rue or Not to Rue</a></p><p class = small>Some things may be rued, others not.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyJan2024.htm\">Prognostications 2024</a></p><p class = small>The Spy looks forward with mixed reviews for the future during 2023.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyDec2023.htm\">Scenes in Dreams of Reams of Memes</a></p><p class = small>Continuing last month\'s scary theme, the Spy examines some technology fueled political and other memes.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyNov2023.htm\">Scary Times</a></p><p class = small>Apple puts on a not-so-scary event in a world where we ought to be scared stiff.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spySep-Oct2023.htm\">AI Yi Yi</a></p><p class = small>Intelligence-the artificial and the real thing, THe Spy opines on an old subject recently made new.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyJul-Aug2023.htm\">Time and Again</a></p><p class = small>A new ultra Apple Watch, and reflections on past and possible future wars written in Europe.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyJun2023.htm\">The Spring Of Our Discontent</a></p><p class = small>A mini review of the MacBook Pro M2, comments on fear of AI and a plea for RI, politics again, and a quo vadis civilization. </p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/spyMay2023.htm\">Time flies...</a></p><p class = small>like an arrow, but...which way, how fast, far or malleable, and with what consequences?</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://www.arjaybooks.com/E-books/index.htm\">Best ePublished SF of the 2003</a></p><p class = small>The Friends, volume two of The Interregnum wins EPPIE 2004 for best SF novel of 2003.</p>");
document.write("<p class = lb><a class = navnormgrn href=\"https://thenorthernspy.com/archiveindex.htm\">The Northern Spy Archive</a></p><p class = small>All the Northern Spy articles are archived here by year and month.</p>");
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