Warning: First world problem alert!

One of the amazing things about In Search Of Lost Time is how many of Proust's observations of how the mind and memory work are now shown to be scientifically correct.

I remember in the mid-eighties watching Miami Vice as a child. Maybe eighty-five or …

I've come across some good maths puzzles recently. I thought I'd list them so that I don't forget them.

• St Petersburg Paradox
• Google interview question: Proportion of boys and girls
• Google interview question: One shot or two out of three shots?

With the EU elections on Thursday, I realize I've got to get my head round it all and decide who I'm voting for. The BANES website tells me that I'm in the South West Region, which returns six members. Voting is by Regional List, where the parties are given members …

Following on from Proust On Memes:

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him whom it refutes,among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter …

Reading In A Budding Grove. Proust writes about what strikes me as competing memes:

in the communal life that is led by our ideas in the enclosure of our minds, there is a single one of those that makes us most happy which has not first sought, like a real …

I advised my friend to use uppercase / lowercase / numbers / special-characters in her password to make it more secure. On hearing this my friends Bill and Andy errupted into a disputatious frenzy, arguing that password length is more important than the range of characters. I was shaken enough to try and …

I took a photo when they came to test for air pollution at my house. Thankfully no pollution was found.

A paper from the day I was born.

I was walking to pick up a package from a depot outside Bristol, and I came upon a horse.

A delicious meal …