Computing
Who Does It Think I Am?
“How long are you going to keep this up for?” “I don’t think of myself as a flouncer, plus I don’t read the comments. In it for the duration, I would hope. Change of heart? [more…]
Science
Engineering
20th Century
Return To The Jernbanemysterium, Part Three
Let’s cut to the quick and get down to brass tacks. Or rather cut to a railway line on the icy wastes of central Norway and investigate a strange trackside anomaly only visible to sharp-eyed [more…]
Economics
The Case Against Fordism
It’s hard to imagine where we would be today in terms of economic progress, industrial production capacity and labour dynamics if Henry Ford never existed. The revolutionary system he pioneered in the early 20th century, [more…]
America
Richard Phillips Feynman
Recruited to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico under J Robert Oppenheimer, Feynman was also tasked with co-ordinating research and development between Los Alamos and the Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee. [more…]
Health
A Life Changing Event
On Tuesday 11th February at 08:10, I had a heart attack. The alarm had gone off at 07:30, downstairs, I made tea for myself and Mrs. 10210, bringing it back upstairs. We sat in bed [more…]
21st Century
Army Procurement’s ‘Strike’ Cul-de-Sac
General Sir Nick Carter, former Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom between 2018 and 2021, championed a strategic concept known as ‘Strike’ as part of his vision for modernising the British Army. [more…]
20th Century
Desert Mystery – Does Using AI Software Work?
In my last series of articles (Desert Mystery – Letters from Afrika), I described what had happened to a German Afrika Korps driver, Hans Walden, during the WW2 Desert War through the translation of the [more…]
Diary
A View (Literally) Through The Greenhouse: Storms (What Are They Good For?)
There has been much huffing, puffing and pearl clutching, from the usual suspects, where the subject of “interference” in politics is concerned. Whether it be financial (the hypocrisy runs deep in this particular river) or, [more…]