Quote of the day
Money doesn’t change you. It just reveals who you really are when you no longer have to be nice. — Tim Ferris
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Remembrance of things past
I was doing a mini clear-out, and decided it was time to say farewell to some old friends. Do you remember the days when some electronic devices didn’t look like slabs of black glass? For younger or...
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From Webcam to Webcar?
My car now has a web page. Sadly, it’s for my own use and not for public consumption, but I made a little video about it anyway! Also available on YouTube if preferred. Thanks are due to Terence Eden...
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A mistake reading poetry at night, I find, but not for fear of sleepless angst nor yet of haunted dreams. Good verse needs concentration, yes, and coffee. Bedtime is for prose.
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Brian McCullough hosts the rather splendid Internet History Podcast, and a few days ago he asked me to talk about some of the stuff I’d been involved in over the years. You can find the interview here...
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Hauxton Mill
I posted this a couple of years ago, but I went back and tweaked the image now I know a bit more about monochrome processing. Also, since all my displays are now higher-resolution, the old one was...
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Didn’t know they had these…
Got a quick snap of a DVLA van in our street the other day… The things on the roof are cameras, looking out for the registration numbers of untaxed vehicles. Now that we no longer have tax discs, the...
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Down my street
Several key Cambridge University indoor locations are now on Google Streetview, including the chapel where we got married. Nice!
View ArticleA Brexit Bonus?
Oh wow! A wonderful thought has just occurred to me… If we leave the EU, does that mean we don’t have to see those notices about cookies on every website? Getting rid of those surely outweighs any...
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Only six years away
Six years. Not long after the next general election. That’s the estimate as to when electric cars will become cheaper than their petrol-powered predecessors, from a Bloomberg report quoted by Wired in...
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You can’t win, Vader…
If you let me bathe, I shall become muddier than you could possibly imagine.
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Depending on your point of view…
This is the churchyard at Orwell, a little village not far from us. I like this photo, but it doesn’t look like somewhere you’d want to go for a picnic, does it? An air of foreboding about it, perhaps?...
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