I started blogging here precisely 25 years ago on 19 February 2000. I was 22 when I started and I am now 47.
My silver jubilee!
I felt when I started in February 2000 that I was coming to blogging late. I procrastinated about setting it up. People I knew were already doing ...
There’s that asteroid 2024 YR4 which currently has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
Uh oh.
I kinda feel like… reading the socials… people are weirdly gleeful about the prospect?
It’s true, it is somehow comforting to contemplate the potential of the end of the world tha...
I’ve been trying out a new technique to plug in knowledge and capabilities to AI apps like chat, using an emerging open standard from Anthropic called Model Context Protocol (MCP). It’s early days but it has momentum.
So I would say that right now is the time for organisatio...
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The Heider and Simmel animation (1944) (YouTube).
It’s a big triangle, a little triangle and circle moving around a box – and part an early demonstration that people infer complex social intentions and story even though the geometric shapes look nothing like humans.
All t...
Part of getting older is finding that my PBs each time I train up - personal bests - are not as quick as they were before.
I record my runs on Strava but really I don’t need to check, I remember my old pace.
As an on-and-off-again runner who is motivated each time round by g...
You know those big illustrated boards with holes in? You poke your face through and you have the body of a cartoon wizard or something, and someone takes a photo. You get them at the seaside and tourist destinations.
They don’t appear to have an official name.
Though Wikiped...
