Seven Days In

Just a quick one about blog targets for 2019. Last year I posted over 300 times (with the aim of beating my previous highest year of ...

I was going to initial just write about dipping into the Bruce Springsteen "Complete 1978 Radio Broadcasts" 15 CD box set bu...

Why am I writing at 1AM on a school night. I've woken up to prevent another coughing fit, as well as feeling queasy still. Yesterd...

Yesterday I did about 1100 steps, that's 2K under the national average and the lowest I've done since starting my rolling thr...

Looking out my window the sky is full of grey clouds scudding across the skyline. Yesterday I was feeling very down, I'm not sure w...

It's always good to talk and chat with peopla about non essential things. Today I was in a shop discussing the merits of Stephen ...

It's wonderful how one unrelated thing can lead to another giving causality to discovering things that you didn't know were t...

I was completely unaware of (or had forgotten about) the concept of clock mathematics. We all use it every day and when used in appli...

I'm currently reading Simon Singh's "Fermat's Last Theorem" which I picked up after reading "The Mathemati...

Still not thirty pages into Simon Singh's "F er mat's Last Theorem" and he throws in another conceptual gem of a pro...

Twenty pages into to Simon Singh's "Fermat's Last Theorem" and I'm finding out how Pythagoras determined the pri...

It's the final few words of Bob Dylan's "Tarantula" described as Bob Dylan's only fictional novel although if yo...

I finished "The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets" by Simon Singh and now I am embarking on "The Catcher In The...

"Q:Why do Computer Scientists get Halloween and Christmas mixed up?   A: Because OCT:31 = DEC:25" I had to think a few...

I wanted to write something this morning but could not bring myself to do it. There is nothing wrong but it has been one of those days...

As you can see I've reached for "π" in the Simon Singh book . Did you know there's a law in waiting in Indiana that ...

From the title you may have guessed I'm reading something to do with The Simpsons , it's with "The Simpsons and Their Mat...

I've just finished "The Sunshine Cruise Company " by John Niven and although the plot has a lot of holes and is totally...