As anyone who knows me can attest, I am not a health freak. I am not careful with my diet…
I have been very lucky. Since I graduated from university in 1979, I have always been employed. I changed jobs…
It was more than 10 years ago that I last moved house. At the time I said “never again!”, but…
Differences between UK English and American English are always interesting to me. Often they are also confusing. Sometimes a completely…
“Captain’s log, stardate twenty-nine sixty-four point two.” You do not need to be a lifelong Star Trek fan to recognize…
I have written before about my irritation with damage to the English language. Before I rant some more, I want…
One of my daughters is left-handed. This may not sound particularly unusual, but actually there are many more male left-handers…
It must be 35 years or more since I first heard on Reverse Polish Notation. It is one of those…
I have often read about the storage capacity of the human brain and have seen lots of statistics on the…
