Technology
eM Client: a prettier Gmail
When Firefox 29 was released a month or so ago, it convinced me to abandon my browser of choice for a few years – Google Chrome. The latest version of Firefox looked modern and slick […]
Year: 2014
Highlights
The Amstrad PCW
My love affair with computing properly began when I was in the sixth form in the late 80s and took up word processing as one of my subjects. I fell in love with both the […]
Books
Dragonlance Chronicles
I first read the Dragonlance books soon after I left high school and just as I was about to start sixth form college. I had known about them before that: a few of my friends […]
Books
The Belgariad by David Eddings
I discovered David Eddings’ The Belgariad fantasy series when I was 15 years old. Our school librarian bought one of the books in the series and I was the first student she showed it to […]
Books
Remembering The Wolf King
I have always loved reading. It feels that I have always read fairy tales and other short stories. We did not have many books at home when I was a child but I loved going […]
Books
Let’s Go Book Hunting!
Very few things in life give me as much pleasure as books, and for me the buying is as pleasurable as the reading. Like most people, I seldom go to brick-and-mortar bookshops now as in […]
Potpourri
The Birthday Paradox
While procrastinating this morning (I was putting off studying New Testament Greek), I started thinking about people with the same birthday as me. I realised that there are quite a few: at least two […]
Food and Drink
Technology
Renting software? No thanks!
A few weeks ago, someone about to make his first foray into photo editing asked if I would recommend Photoshop. Money was no object and the enquirer was technical enough to have found Photoshop intuitive […]
Technology
Feel at Home
Studying in Rome has its many privileges but one of the drawbacks is that it’s not home. I love London – the place and the people – and being so far away from it can […]