Hobbies
From a Sum to a Product
In The Basel Problem we saw that Euler answered the question by showing that the sum of the reciprocals of the square numbers is equal to . That is The partial sums slowly converge to [more…]
Science
Arts
Shunting dusted off
Christmas is always a time that makes me nostalgic, harking back to the time when you looked forwards to presents that didn’t induce a hangover or keep your feet warm. It’s also a time when, [more…]
21st Century
Pandora’s Bug
How long ago it seems! But it is barely four years since I was a senior researcher at Porton Down, sitting on a shiny chair at a varnished desk and tapping the delicate keyboard of [more…]
Mathematics
Upsetting people in the Festive Season
Lots of your friends might be very upset this Christmas, Boris has decisively won the election and consequently we are definitely leaving the EU. To make their day you can also explain about why they [more…]
Arts
My adventure in A & E
I blame Tom Pudding’s excellent article on his experiences in an NHS hospital for penning this report on my adventure in A & E this June. It started with me having what is called a [more…]
Arts
Wankpuffin’s 2019 Going Postal Fireside Christmas Special Spectacular
Thanks to all of you who wrote the songs. We couldn’t use all of them, due to lack of time and talent (see grovelling apology in the credits). They will be used in the next [more…]
Cooking
21 nourishing meals for Twenty Quid! (Part One)
In the course of a conversation in the comments (which nobody reads) the subject of food banks came up, and specifically a comment made in a newspaper by a Deli owner that he could cook [more…]
Health
It started with a piss
I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]
Computing
El Cnutador’s Auto Responsive Seeing Eye
Introduction I have always been interested in image processing since my Computer Science and subsequent employment in document management systems. For my final year project, I failed in the ultimate aim simply because back then [more…]