Misc

In the 1990s I went on a walking holiday to the west coast of America and came across the photographs of Michael Fatali.

Sometimes you come across a website that is simple and just works.

Last year I took an excellent mobile photography course in London.

I came across the work of Richard Rowan by accident.

My daughter is at university and phoned me up saying they had a power cut in their flat.

I recently did a photography course in London where one of the main learnings was how you can make photographs more interesting by using unusual angles and reflections.

I’ve never really got into the TV series Gavin and Stacey but I decided to watch the

The community for the CSS-Next repository recently had a vote to decide on a new official logo. The colour chosen for the new logo was rebeccapurple. This colour was introduced to the CSS …

A mobile app developer was frustrated recently by receiving a one star review for their application.

How do you start to design a new rollercoaster? How do you make it different and more memorable than those before it? And how do you end up doing it when you are only 27?

I was not old enough to remember the first man on the moon - in fact I wasn’t even born until the following year.

For the first time in ages we had a family night at the cinema to see the film “One Life”. It is unusual for my wife and I to agree on a film to watch, let alone the kids as well!

I enjoy doing jigsaws once a year, over the Christmas period.

When I grew up I had an old 35mm Praktica camera that was given to me. I purchased some lenses for it and mostly used it to take pictures of the Somerset cricket matches I went to watch.

I have never understood abstract art. I have tried.

I am not a big art lover but when I have viewed art I tend to be at the photo-realistic end as, to me, that shows the skill of the artist.

I recently had to try and explain to some non-technical colleagues how part of our system works. This involved giving them a very quick overview of public/private key cryptography. So I thought I …

Imagine you wanted to send a message to a friend. The message has sensitive information so you want to send it securely.

I have been to see two musicals in London in the last few months - one was the best and one was the worst I have ever seen.

I watched a day, well some of a day, of Ashes cricket between England and Australia in 1989.

“There’s something that the Kop wants you to know

The best in the world, his name is Bobby Firmino

Part of my current role is prototyping new features and algorithms to determine if and how they will work. It’s nice to do some hands on coding still.

This is a beautiful interactive webpage to illustrate the height/altitude of different things and how a potential future space …