Here's Matt on a bridge in Oxford:

The reason I took it is that the bridge is exactly the same design as the new bridge that's been put up in Linear Park near to me in Bath. I find the design uninspiring. After seeing Victoria Bridge in Bath and the …

This was from a box marked, 'fragile: ornaments from piano'. This is a pentagon section box I made. My Dad a bought a job lot of laminated strips of wood. There were hundreds of them. It was perfect for me to make stuff with.

It was hinged in the middle …

This is a book that my aunt gave me. The author describes her experience of being confined to her bed for years with an autoimmune disease. She is inspired by watching a snail in a terrarium next to her bed. She muses on the similarities between the life of the …

Here's one of the CDT projects I blogged about earlier:

The jaws of the device:

The jaws opened by pushing this forward with one's thumb:

The holes in the barrel are to make the device lighter:

This was one of the first things I did in CDT and I'm still …

We were standing around the fire-pit, and the conversation turned to Alan Moore. I'd heard a lot about him. I'd watched V For Vendetta, but I'd never read anything of his. Jonathan went and got VfV and From Hell.

It's a brilliantly written and drawn story. I'd recommend it without …

I'm running out of space on Picassa (the photo sharing website that Blogger used) so I've started to use Shutterfly to store my photos. Here are batches 2012-09-03 and 2012-09-04.

Told in the first person by a 30 year old recounting the experiences of her 12 year old self, Light On Snow skilfully manages to evoke deep emotions and maintain a narrative tension, using simple language and and everyday thoughts and activities.

Perhaps all the characters were 'good people'. It …

A short list of stuff this time. This Teach Yourself C++ book was great. It must have been after uni that I got into it. I don't think I made it through all 21 days. I prefer to learn as I go on a real project.

This was my post-uni …

Following on from my earlier post about Sky sending me junk mail when I was a signed up to the MPS, I've heard from the MPS that I'm not actually registered at all! Ooops, I thought I had but it looks like I owe Sky and apology. Sorry Sky.