I’ve been remark­ably busy with one thing or the other for the last few months, and for the first time in quite a while I’m head­ing to a time when my per­sonal to-do list is look­ing a little more spartan than I’d like. I’ve pretty much always con­sidered myself a fairly lazy sort of person — […]

Maybe it’s an age thing. I’m find­ing myself becom­ing more and more inter­ested in sciency-type affairs. Certainly more than I used to. One site I’ve recently become massively inter­ested in is CERN pod­cast pro­duced by the clever girls and boys of the same.

So I’ve been hap­pily cyc­ling around the buzz­ing met­ro­polis of London for around a year now, and I can hon­estly say that it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long, long time. Come rain or shine I’ve been ped­al­ing my cheapo won­der­bike across the UK cap­ital, avoid­ing con­ges­tion charges, over­crowded Tube and […]

I love puff­er­fish. Especially musical ones. This one’s amus­ingly tal­en­ted in the bril­liant video for the Chemical Brothers’ latest, the Salmon Dance. I could watch that little crit­ter go for hours at a time and not get bored. ..until I , y’know, have to go eat, or some­thing. Then I might stop watch­ing him for a bit…

Travelling across the Arctic Steppe gives a man the time to pon­der the Bigger Questions; to ques­tion the Un-Questionable and to get your­self some qual­ity Philosophy. (I’m back by the way — hi)

A quick announce­ment and an appeal for your help: I have recently been given the fant­astic oppor­tun­ity to run away from the glor­i­ous(?) cli­mates of London and par­ti­cip­ate in a week-long dog sled­ding trek 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Norway. Tomorrow.

Oh, The Internet. Just when I think I’ve seen everything you could pos­sibly offer — you go and sur­prise me once again. After a pro­longed con­ver­sa­tion with a chap in a pub that thought I looked like Chris Martin from Coldplay (I don’t) I found this site that will tell you using SCIENCE and FAIRYDUST […]

Richard. A name of roy­alty. A name of lead­er­ship. A name used whenever I’m in trouble and my mum phones me up to tell me off. A name, going by the amount of other Richards that I know, had a mini renais­sance between ’78 and ’83. I never had a prob­lem with my name at school […]

CSS Legend Dan Cederholm has star­ted a trend of for­cing a re-design of a site by strip­ping away his CSS and then re-building his site as-live, for all of us to wit­ness. This is a crack­ing idea, and has spawned a couple of fol­low­ers who have taken his lead and done the same.

“Algebra was inven­ted long before they had any use for it in phys­ics and com­puter pro­gram­ming.” This par­tic­u­lar pearl of wis­dom was bestowed upon me by my Maths teacher many years ago. It was some­thing that I was per­fectly pre­pared to believe, after all, des­pite being Welsh, he was a teacher and I had no […]