Animals
Aquarium building 4
With the sump and the closed loop all in place and tested the aquarium was ready to go. Placing it was ok – the floor had been strengthened, the helpers careful not to drop anything, [more…]
Blog
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Ninety
WEDNESDAY, THIRD MORNING AFTER EASTER He’d left the smuggling party behind on the way down to the valley, racing despite his heavy load, dawn was just arriving, a grey cloudy day, typical West Country [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – 1958
Featured song: Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls Of Fire This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they [more…]
Arts
Arts
A Simple Example to Explain Some Austrian Economic Principles
Simple examples can be used to explain what seem at first glance to be complex economic principles. I’ll use a hypothetical yet commonplace experience to explain how money may be used for only one of [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Eighty Nine
The Turk was almost ecstatic, after all the set-backs, the doubts, only nine-eleven put this in the shade, and this was somehow more personal, more intimate, a stab at the heart of a major western [more…]
Hobbies
Postcard From Fan Frynych
I started this walk from the Brecon Beacons Visitor Centre, or Mountain Centre as it is known locally, which I have covered in a previous postcard. The advantages of this are dedicated parking, toilet facilities [more…]
Animals
Aquarium Building Continued
In previous episodes I’ve talked about starting a project to keep Marine tropical fish and corals. Such an endeavour is not to be taken lightly or if you are short of cash! With the tank [more…]
Hobbies
The Möbius Function
The Möbius function is denoted by , where is the Greek letter mu. Depending on the factorisation of , the function takes the values . The last says that if is even, then and if [more…]