We're all guilty sometimes of over linking to our own material, in the belief that this may affect our search engine rankings. The practice is really bad on some ad-farms and joke news sites, where some sort of automatic software creates a scattergun of links, often double underlined, ¹ that are generally useless. And, fortunately, easy enough to learn to ignore.

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Apple told me to move all my stuff to iCloud and so, despite the fact that none of my mobile devices is able to take advantage of the magic that it supposedly represents, I went ahead. Now I have nothing but grief. In fairness, I was warned ...

GMail, which used to handily collect mail, will no lo...

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I heard this woman from Southampton University give a talk called History of the Web Part I to the Royal Society, and it was quite good, even though, possibly even because, there were a couple of things I disagreed with.

And being a glass half full sort of guy, most of the time, we could leave i...

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Spent this morning in the kitchen, doing three things.

A new batch of peanut butter cookies.

• Hypothesis: They'll be as good or better, made with peanuts finely chopped in my fine chopper instead of peanut butter.
• Method: Follow recipe, but substitute 265 gm finely chopped salted peanuts...

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When Hana enters the small bakery I have borrowed for a day, I am dividing a loaf into 1.5-centimeter slices. The loaf’s tranches articulate a white fanned deck, each one the exact counterpart of its fellows. The bread is smooth and uniform, like a Bauhaus office block. There are no unneeded flour...

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