I've written about my contributions to OpenStreetMap before. Surveying the ever-changing Newcastle Helix site for OSM, I noticed that part of Corporation Street no longer exists on the ground, bulldozed to make way for a new building that is just being started…
I've taken a lot of photos that I'm very happy with since updating my phone a year ago…
It all started in July, when I took a photo of what appeared to be a space invader in the middle of a Union Jack, high up on a wall on Pink Lane.…
Latency, in computer networking, means the delay between preparing to send information and the start of the transfer itself. It was a term borrowed from biology, where latency is the delay between stimulus and response.…
It is hot even under the trees in Central Park. People are strolling, having languid conversations on the lawns, or dozing off on an outcrop of warm Manhattan schist.…
I've noticed one or two of my Creative Writing classmates referring to themselves on social media as a writer. Perhaps it jumped out at me. Obviously I write (the evidence is right here), but I don't really think of myself as a writer.…
Walking through Newcastle earlier this month I noticed this graffito. L'amour est partout où tu regardes.…
When I got a my first full-time job, at Birmingham University, it was the second time that I'd moved from northeast England to Birmingham, because I did my BSc at the same university.…
I've now posted a photo to my Instagram every day for 6 months. I'm halfway through the first year, and a quarter of the way through my two-year part-time degree.…
There's a train of thought, among those fed up with the government of the day or cynical about politics in general, that all politicians are crooks, and that only bad people could even want to be in politics. But I've known some very nice people who have been politicians, so I know this isn't true.…
Last week the Ironic Sans blog published an article about joining an online social network in 1998 with the passing comment that “many consider [sixdegrees.com] the first online social network”. Also this week, while googling for something else, I…
I haven't written a product review for quite a while, so I thought I'd review the Audio Technica headphones I bought in October.…