21 October 2015
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October 21 2015 was the future date that the heroes of Back to the Future II (1989) travelled to. The film, like Back to the Future (1985) and, to some extent, Back to the Future III (1990), was a massive … Continue reading
20 October 2015
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I thought I had posted before on the concept of umwelt but maybe it was one of those ideas that never quite made it from brain to fingers to keyboard to web. It is a German word and signifies how … Continue reading
19 October 2015
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As you might expect, I’ve got a collection of reasonably strong passwords. Typically they are around 20 characters including upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. That should take millions of years to crack using current computing power … Continue reading
18 October 2015
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Autumn is a time for, among other things, sweeping up fallen leaves. However, I suspect that Jane and I are in the minority by sweeping up leaves in order to put them on our garden rather than to remove them … Continue reading
17 October 2015
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I’m heading cross-country to Bristol this afternoon to do some filming with The String Project. Watch this space for the results (although it could take a while before they come through so don’t hold your breath in the meanwhile!).
16 October 2015
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This is the bit of the garden I was concentrating on this morning: Quite a few of those are now cut down and, where suitable, split in two or three. Over the next month or two they will carry on … Continue reading
15 October 2015
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October’s back garden: Not entirely dissimilar to the view from late August from this perspective although the plants are beginning to thin out. There is still plenty to see though, especially if you get a bit closer:
14 October 2015
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There is debate in Parliament this week about the Government’s proposed Fiscal Charter legislation and also about the Labour party’s alleged U-turn on supporting it, with a vote due today: I hope that the charter will be roundly defeated. My … Continue reading
13 October 2015
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Tonight sees another gig with The String Project. This one is a relatively short notice call to support another Oxford band, Joaquim and the Smoke Machine at the Jericho Tavern. I have to confess that I’d not heard of them … Continue reading
12 October 2015
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I came across an interesting website the other day called Code Combat. The concept is that you can learn to code not by solving traditional programming challenges but as a way of controlling a character in a dungeon quest with … Continue reading