Category Archives: Blather

A sudden burst of comment spams, my very first. Fortunately, it is extremely easy to wipe them out from mySQL, and they can’t have been up for more than ten minutes. I can’t figure out how to do the fancy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s a shame that this won’t be available tomorrow (nor any other day this year), because I want one. Continue reading →

Felix and I met in the Lamb, and discovered how to beam numbers with IR to each others’ mobiles. Could anything be sillier, or more fun? The Lamb, in Lamb’s Conduit Street, is a wonderful pub, the closest thing in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Does anyone out there have experience of a palm tungsten T? I see some being sold off as binends, and I am horribly tempted. Continue reading →

Jonny Boatfield, a remarkable local artist, deserves to be better known (and better paid). He’s a fishing buddy of mine, and a cousin of my wife’s. So, as a holiday project, my daughter built him a web site. The World … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I must have been sixteen before I knew I knew anyone Jewish. My parents were warmly pro-Israel: there is a family legend that in May 1967, my mother drove into the back of a Stockholm tram while distracted with worry … Continue reading → Continue reading →

OK. I got back from Lucca at half past midnight this morning, and spent about two minutes sorting the paper post. There were two magazines I needed at least to skim, a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to which … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I heard my cousin Jonathan Bartley on the radio this morning, talking to Roger Scruton and Ed Stourton. I would never have recognised him from his voice (we hardly ever meet). i’ was a gruff es’uary grow(l) from which con’sonanns, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For work-related reasons (I was trying to avoid it) I plugged the name of the drummer with CSNY into Google this morning. Turns out that Dallas Taylor is still alive, and working as an addiction counsellor in Los Angeles, after … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m suddenly tormented with lust for a digital camera. There is a family expedition to Tuscany next week; I don’t want to schlep a big SLR around and then spend Continue reading →