The Orb, Live at Brighton Concord 2
Went with my friend Nick to see The Orb at Concord 2 last night. The last time I’d seen the Orb was back in 2004, at the start of …
I went to a pub quiz tonight
Ingrid and I joined our usual quiz team tonight for the residents’ association pub quiz. As usual we came third. It’s a fairly …
The paths in the wood
I began writing this post after realising that it is the first of June and I might as well attempt once more to write a post every day. The …
M1 External Monitor Issues
Since moving to an M1 Mac, I’ve noticed some issues with my second screen that I do not experience with my previous Intel Mac or with …
Tade Thompson, Rosewater
Rosewater is an exciting science fiction novel set several decades after first contact with an alien called Wormwood, that has established …
Doing the thing
I find it hard to get started on projects. This may have always been the case. I definitely remember instances of complex plans for school …
John Irving, The Imaginary Girlfriend
The Imaginary Girlfriend is a short autobiography by American author John Irving. In it, he explains the interwoven roles of writing and …
Laurent Binet, Civilisations
‘Civilisations’ is a counterfactual historical novel that attempts to extrapolate the future course of history after changing …
TIL: footnotes in Latex captions
Today I had an interesting bug in some Latex code I am writing. Putting a footnote into a caption caused the document to fail compilation. …
The Garden
Today, we transferred our Christmas tree to a new pot. Being root-bound as the tree was, it took ages to get it out of the crappy pot from …
Understated Classics #39: Lifeforms by Future Sound of London
Lifeforms is the 1994 album from the Future Sound of London. A double album (just), it also features the talents of Robert Fripp, Ozric …
What is FFI anyway?
At the moment I can’t compile this blog locally because my ruby-ffi install is somehow wrong and is preventing Jekyll from running on my …