Way back in the mists of time men were just men. They had the dominant role in society, at least in theory, and women couldn't compete with them in the workplace because they had other things to worry about. In some ways this was less of an issue

Bloody hell! Although I suppose it might save us from tourists (joke, definitely joke, I hope). Is there any forum you can have a go at them about wasting public money? There's an idea - why not get off your backsides and do your job preventing i

Insightful few paragraphs here.  If John and others are right, the climate change folks look like tools, if they are wrong we might be in deep trouble.That's the problem.That said, I agree that we can overcome difficulties with technology an

More of GRTZ comic novel available

More recent writings on the history of programming languages

This is a reprint of something I wrote ages ago. Thought it might amuse.

Carrying on from last blog, perhaps more coherently

Some notes that may turn into the beginning of my next novel, or may stay what they are.

Lots of competent people, who think carefully about the problem, making small contributions is how it works. Don't knock it. I'm a bit jealous of people who have made a contribution, which I know is weird of me. At times I feel like I'm trying to do

I've redone my novel and change things a little, have a look if your interested Should have gone to bed early and done all kinds of useful things but who the hell can be bothered with that kind of stuff? Off to bed now, 11:30 pm. Got a big day tomor

If you hurt someone else you give them permission to hurt you back because you make hurting people OK. This is quite tricky to understand. It's one of the ways that karma works. Karma just means "action", like Newton's law:For every action

Was half way through a post when the Mac seized up. Hopefully the laptop will behave a bit better.We had a birthday party for him on Thursday at a local sports centre. It was a football party and most of the kids joined in. It was a little weird wher

Hello, this document is produced by using a my brand-new ViaVoice software; I hope that it makes sense and doesn't come out complete rubbish. Today has been a very difficult day: I'm extremely tired and went to some training on a new piece of softwar

Well, I got paid yesterday, so the bank will get off my back for a while. The consultancy I have CV'd want a phone interview mid Feb so we'll see what happens there. I'll have to tone down my apparent arrogance I suppose, but then I have done a lot i

If I thought that I was tired last week this week is worse. I think it started because I was paddling all day on Saturday at Winsford Flash which made me tired and I haven't managed to get my head back together. My Dharma practice has suffered. Despi

DharmaA long week, I'm very tired. I went to see Lama Jampa this week, which only took about an hour and a half from where I'm staying but, of course, then I had to drive back. The meeting was very good; he is so wise and I am very lucky to be one of

Crèche in West KensingtonOK OK lots of things have been going on here... I won a bottle of whisky in the charity raffle at work, which was amazing because I never win anything. Here I am feeling pretty good, my Karma is obviously working well. Then

I went for a walk this evening. It was a beautiful autumn evening with a two-thirds moon and the stars just peeking out from behind some cloud cover. The clouds were catching the distant neon glow, and just being pierced by the sharp points of light.

My new short story is The End of All Meeting. It's a bit preachy but it helped me sort some thngs out. Have a read if you want.Null is not NullIf you select length('') from dual in Oracle what you get in return is a null. I was trying to prevent stri

Been struggling the last few days with tiredness. Seem to keep waking up at 5 am, not a lot of fun to be honest. I've been wondering if it's my IBS flaring up again. Suspect the tiredness comes from the weekend originally, where I paddled for 2 days