In March 2023, I backed the SeeAir Tankless Dive System on Kickstarter. Compact, battery-powered underwater breathing gadget. Polished renders, a slick video, spec sheets that looked legit. $362 for the dive unit and a couple accessories. Seemed fair.
Originalism has an informative article on the background of Pitcairn.
A good one-file slideshow X-HTML/CSS/JS-based system is available at Eric's Archived Thoughts
Today I had my first pop-up ad in a loooong time because I'd forgotten I'd disabled it just to try out some stuff. Good stuff, I'd totally forgotten the anoyance. 
Great, trackback spam is becoming a problem too.
I've taken up baking
The Recording Industry Guide to Home Taping via Binary Bonsai
I contacted Soligor about their 2x tele-converters as I noticed that many firms have released new converters and that some (Soligor included) have special converters for the digital Canon EOS series. They answered (quickly, I may add ) that the 2x convertors are only coated from one side but that because the sensors in digital cameras reflect light, they require double coating. There are two new issues to me in this: