The Internet used to be a place where people did academic research, wrote a few personal emails, and had a few websites to pick from that were idiosyncratic to say the least. There were newsgroups with binary images that had to be decoded to be viewed. It was mostly text, and website information content was [...]

Today Nathan turns 4 months old. Here’s a recent picture with his Grandad taken as a test with a webcam, so please excuse the quality. I’m wondering what you call a date four months from birth. It’s not strictly an anniversary since that has a root from annus in Latin, meaning year. It’s kind of [...]

I took Suzie for her second injection at the vets this week. After her operation, which went well, she was bandaged for ten days, as you can see in the photo. It makes it look like she’s wearing a t-shirt . We adopted Suzie from the street. A friend of ours in Morocco lived in [...]

In Letchworth, the town where I grew up, there was sometimes a busker in the town centre. Maybe an organ grinder, maybe a one man band with a guitar, a kazoo, cymbals on his head and a drum on his back. In the Paris metro on visits to the French capital, sometimes a couple of [...]

How do you read this blog? How do you read other blogs? Are you still surfing around randomly, or have you started organising yourself around subscriptions? Perhaps you’re reading this whilst surfing on a blog traffic exchange like Blog Explosion or Blog Advance? I provide a form on the right hand side (the “sidebar” as [...]