A new template I built for this site will, I hope, both display photographs attractively and encourage me to take and publish more pictures.

Twitter passed me by at the start, and if I am honest I still don't really get it. Today, though, I was bringing in old posts as usual, and they included links to a couple that were, to put it delicately, skeptical about Twitter's chances. Tim Bray got one thing very right:

The basic problem i...

For three years now I have kept track of the spam I have had to deal with at my stream of micro-posts. No more. I will still be keeping track, but there is no need to keep updating the sparkline I used to have in the sidebar. Instead, I will leave you with this final picture, which I may update in a...

I was very disappointed by the latest Thinking Allowed. Paul Freedman explained why, as his new book claims, Food Matters, but Laurie Taylor gave the distinguished perfesser a very gentle ride. Freedman said that academe denigrates and dismisses research into food, which it surely does. He then re...

I had a delicious lie-in this morning, and extra 40 minutes asleep. When I looked at my sleep stats, however, I had been robbed. Apple says I woke up at 6:59. I happen to know that I did not actually get out of bed until 7:40. I was awake, briefly, at around 6:59, but only to tap the Stop button. Th...