Trailing slashes

According to RFC 3986 the following two URLs are not necessarily equivalent:

• http://gigask.foo/organizations/3
• http://gigask.foo/organizations/3/

But most users would think the two were equivalent. What's to be done? I think the RFC should have said that the first should be normalized …

Here's the letter I sent to my MP Ben Howlett:

Dear Ben Howlett,

I am writing to urge you to vote against the bombing of Syria.

The onus is on those making the case for military action to show that it will do more good than harm. In my view …

My friend Kazim Ladimeji has written a book called Will The Future Workplace Still Need You?, which I've just finished reading. As he says, this isn't a book of philosophical speculation, but a practical guide on what action the individual should take to avoid being replaced by a robot. The …

Second one to go kaput in six months!

My laptop was under a beanbag and I trod on it and broke the screen:

I've ordered one of these.

Did you say trams? Well I know of at least one person who would be all over your blog now!

Here's a picture of a cat so that my blog becomes popular on the internet.

Happy now?

This is the cathedral just round the corner from me:

The bridge over the Loire at Tours that the trams and cars go over:

Faded grandeur:

But wait, there's more!

Dave and Andy have asked me to take some photos of trains for their website. I protested that my camera's not very good and that I'm a rubbish photographer. Anyway, against my will here are some tram-related photos. There seems to be just one long track, stretching as far as …

Every morning we stand in a queue for water at the pump...

The Romeo and Juliette style balcony just outside my front door.

Looking back, this photo was taken at the time I stepped in a huge dog turd.

This is a monument built by Americans to thank the French …

My friend Andy challenged me to solve the Langford Kebab puzzle. I'm not clever enough to work it out, so I wrote a computer program to work it out by brute force.