My website and blog were hosted by Google, which tracks people on an industrial scale. So I've now moved to GitHub Pages using a site that's statically generated using Pelican. GitHub Pages have better privacy than Google, but the deeper point is that a static site stored in a git …

BANES is to be congratulated for creating a plan to tackle the air pollution that is generated by transport in Bath. Unfortunately the plan has several flaws:

• It doesn't consider pollution from brake and tyre dust.
• It considers pollution per vehicle rather than pollution per person.
• It doesn't help tackle …

For some time I've been concerned about Google, Facebook etc. I'm writing this to try and pin down what my concerns are and what (if anything) I should do about it. So here are some thoughts in no particular order (a 'brain dump' in the vernacular):

Monopoly

It seems that …

Bill asked, 'On average, how many flips of a coin do I have to do to get 7 heads in a row?'. I thought this would be really easy, but I had to think about it for ages. I think it means, how many flips to get 50% probability of …

7th March 2018

This isn't as good a drawing as the last one, but the point of doing this isn't to create good pictures, it's to open up a dialogue with the unconscious. Sounds pretentious :-)

This is a drawing of a dream I had recently, where we were galley slaves …

As I wrote in my last post, one of my tactics for recovering from burnout is art therapy. Here's my first effort:

I was inspired by watching a TV program about houses. I'm attracted to the idea of a post apocalyptic world, where people survive in a concrete bunker in …

Keypad at Tony... I think the drawing and art therapy idea is definitely a good a good one. Best wishes

It sounds like the title of a Dick Francis novel: Bonecrack, Knockdown, Smokescreen, Longshot. Burnout would fit right in.

On the Monday just gone I came to work and announced I was suffering from burnout and asked for some time off. It didn't come on suddenly, it crept up on …

Walking along Oldfield Road on my way to work, I saw a notice attached to a lamppost. It turned out to be a traffic notice restricting parking in Oldfield Park, order 17-012/LC. The council were inviting comments, so I wrote the following in support of the order:

As a …

Today is the anti-penultimate day of the holiday in France, and I'm thinking back to our arrival. La Garde is about 30 minutes drive from Angers, so I hailed a taxi outside the station and we were off! The driver didn't recognize the address, but no matter, I directed him …