The TED conference is coming back to Oxford this July. I doubt I’ll go – I’d rather spend the $4500 (about same in UK pounds) on a holiday with my family! And the talks will be podcast in the autumn anyway. I keep a few of the interesting TED talks in [...]
For once, I may be ahead of the curve! A friend tipped me off (okay, see, it wasn’t me after all; thanks Steve!) to a cool new search system that gives you knowledge results rather than internet page results.
You can throw math, medical, financial, geographical, you name it, questions at it. The output looks professional [...]
Sadly, there has been yet another security problem with the program that I use to show you my photos and videos in the ‘gallery’ pages of this website.
I have gone through the hassle of its manual update procedure one too many times recently because of security bugs – so I am sadly taking down all [...]
In the spirit of Jeopardy: “What is buried but once treasured?”
I read an article over the New Year holidays which stated that the last remaining distributor of VHS* tapes packed things in at the end of 2008. Gone forever now are the days of tapes getting tangled in the machine, or kids fitting the [...]
Back in August, I got involved in a new activity about town: Whitchurch Arts.
We’re now a few months in, and I’m settling into the groove of maintaining another website! As if this family blog didn’t keep me up to all hours of the night already, I now have a second one to keep me going [...]
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