Regarding the title, that's not junk in the Ke\$ha sense. I think it was on Tuesday 23rd April that the contents of my garage in Trowbridge was moved to Bath by Me & My Van. The tenants had moved in the previous day, and so the removal of the contents …

This is part of my ongoing effort to document the stuff I'm throwing out as I sort out my new smaller house.

I've had this sleeping bag for ages. Since I was a child. Certainly since the early 80s, maybe even before! It's been with us on family holidays, packed …

I've made a brief response to the UK Cabinet Office open standards consultation. The first question asks:

How does this definition of open standard compare to your view of what makes a standard 'open'?

My reply is:

This is a good definition, but a shortcoming is the alternative to RF …

Some time ago, while visiting Matt in Oxford, we came back from his PhD celebrations and sat in his kitchen for a bit. One of his housemates was there and talked about Charles Dickens. I opined that Dickens was sentimental, melodramatic and at times lurid. She recommended Anthony Trollope. I …

You're welcome to them!

You throwing those maps out??? I think I'll take them off your hands, or at least some of them, have to check my collection.

Bill

My first mobile phone

My gratitude to my brother for giving me this phone is so great that it is beyond words. I was living in a tent at the time, and the phone let me keep in touch. It could store a maximum of 10 texts! Unfortunately it's one …

This is a stack of books before being taken to the charity shop round the corner. It's not that these are bad books. Far from it. I remember reading Genius at Uni. Inspiring. The thing is that in the new house there's not much room, so things just have to …

T-shirt that I wore for my brother's stag-weekend football match

Venerable old jumper

The last thing my mum bought for me. I didn't throw this one out.

Good times. Easy to say 'free palestine' under a duvet with baileys...