Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Byzantine Monk Cooking

This is a very weird story about how squid stayed on the menu of Byzantine monks by falling between the cracks of dietary rules. At Constantinople's Monastery of Stoudios, the kitchen didn't answer to appetite. It answered to the "typikon": a manual for ensuring that nothing unexpected happened a...

IT Security in The New Pope

Lol, IT Security is everywhere. Even in the first episode of "The New Pope" TV series the sequel of "The Young Pope", 2016 some monks change credentials in the Vatican's IT systems under cover of night. This happened after, well, some unexpected changes in the corporate culture and organizational...