Weird Dreams
For the first time in recent memory, I have a pretty clear recollection of a dream so am recording it for prosterity. This is probably going to serve as a wa...
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The Night Before The Morning After
I’m headed back into London tomorrow morning with work (while I say “tomorrow”, it’s nearing 1am “ so it’s really “later today”). I’m tempted to get the earl...
Chess Challenge Dad Versus 3 Girls
Just before dinner this evening I took on the combined might of our three daughters at chess. The eldest now plays a pretty mean game, next eldest knows all ...
Movie Night Spiderman Wine And Meatballs
After another day spent almost exclusively with the children, we ended it by choosing a movie to watch together after dinner. Spiderman won the day, after a ...
Commodore Amiga Another Blast From The Past
While searching for things in the attic the other evening, I stumbled across a Commodore Amiga computer from the late 1980s that’s been quietly sitting in a ...
A Forgettable Day Exposes A Superpower
The desk is strewn with remnants of the day “ vague clues to the recent past. A Linux magazine, a coat hangar, a lava lamp, and a stack of writeable DVDs. No...
Retrieving The Past
Tucked away on a shelf in a dark corner of our study, a row of ZIP disks have hidden for the last decade. They have moved house with us, and survived multipl...
Rain Brownies Imacs And Wallpaper Decisions
Last night I was supposed to accompany the Brownies after work on a walk along the riverbank to the next town, and then catch the train back. The arrival of ...
Embracing Retro The Apple G3 Imac
Yesterday evening a large box awaited me in our study, containing a piece of computing historyan Apple iMac. It’s a little over ten years old, and in it’s da...
Facebook Funny Cats And Macintoshes
I meant to sit quietly and write something this lunchtime “ really, I did. Before I knew it, the web had quietly sidled up to me, and started whispering inte...