Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Four
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here Part Three is here This time: I make a friend and a ram raid I am settling [more…]
Science
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Three
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here Part Two is here This time: Fire alarms, posh houses and the directors. Getting well into my list of service calls [more…]
Book Review
‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ By Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed Foods have been getting a lot more press recently and I’d been wanting to know more about the subject beyond the few articles I’d read and this book seemed as good as any. The [more…]
20th Century
2,4,6,8 Motorway
Back when motoring was fun…. Tom Robinson was singing this song about our road network to us back in the Seventies, when he wasn’t sharing his anthemic “Sing if you’re glad to be gay”. That [more…]
Computing
Early Impressions of Artificial Intelligence
As a regular reader, you’ll know I’ve taken on a pupil, Mr AI Bot. A useful chap, undoubtedly artificial but every inch the novice when it comes to the realm of intelligence. The vacancy attracted [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part Two
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. Part One is here This time: Fire damage, I meet the Geezer and being on call. Following the call from Melanie to head to a [more…]
Biography
Tales From The Alarm Industry, Part One
Stories from my time spent working for an alarm company. In March 1994, I found myself working for one of the UK’s leading privately owned alarm companies. I had secured a job as an alarm [more…]
19th Century
Mount Snowdon
Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa in Welsh) is the highest mountain in Wales, standing at an elevation of 3,560ft above sea level. As such, it holds the title as the highest point in the British Isles [more…]
Arts
The Cnuteneering Home For Wayward Lathes and Milling Machines Part 2^w 3.
Welcome back once more to the Cnuteneering Home For Wayward Lathes and Milling Machines (CHFWLMM Charitable Foundation, listed in Bermuda alongside Tony Blairs Foundation shell companies). We left the last installment with the establishment of [more…]