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  Like I said: I like beaches. And I didn't have two deserts: the pannacotta looked delicious and I...

The Guardian had another "tough maths question" on Friday, to accompany an article about how the GCSE exam boards were being asked...

Spent the weekend over in the Netherlands, and have been Python-ing again. This was where I went after arriving at Schipol. When I arrive...

Is a house-number, not an age. It's a piece of arithmetic based on my date of birth and today's date. I never felt as old as I did w...

I read Wolpoff and Caspari’s Race and Evolution recently. It’s an biographical account of the various views about race in evolutionary theor...

I was ill. One the first day of the month I woke up and knew I shouldn’t leave the front door, less I fall over in the Cineworld car park on...

One of the tasks in my sorting-out-the-photos project was putting all the files into directories according to the year-month. I could do thi...