Largely older posts, mini blog entries and memes from the past… a vault of dusty nonsense.
Reading time: < 1 min Thanks to my Mum for reminding me that today is Ada Lovelace Day. Who is Ada Lovelace? Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes…
Reading time: < 1 min For a few years now I’ve randomly been checking the WHOIS records for the mclean.co.uk domain, and throughout that time it’s sat there, holding nothing but adverts and any attempt by me to contact the owner with a view to purchasing said domain for a “reasonable” fee have fallen on increasingly deaf ears. Yes, it’s…
Reading time: < 1 min Again. Very busy. Can’t blog. Know it’s ok NOT to blog. Still feel I SHOULD blog. Blame Twitter? Stop blogging? Blame work? Blame too many irons in the fire? Not important. Just stuff. Stuff can be put on hold. Grand scheme, this is nothing. But it’s still mine. So it stays. Just not as much.…
Reading time: 2 mins The blogs I read are written by a reasonably diverse group of people. Naturally I steer clear of people who have hateful views, or from which I’m not going to learn anything except that they like the sound of their own voice, but on the whole I read interesting posts written by intelligent people. When…
Reading time: < 1 min To the lovely people who have left some comments on my blog recently, and who may be wondering why they haven’t appeared. It’s because you have a URL that takes me to a completely unrelated product website. That and it’s obvious that you’ve not fully read the blog post in question. I realise you are,…
Reading time: 4 mins I have returned from my time in Derby. It has been an eventful and exciting week in many ways and yet, despite my best laid plans, fate decided to remind me of my position in the universe. As I mentioned previously I was travelling down to Derby (Mickleover to be precise) where I was attending…