What does this man do? I met a nice chap last week at a business meeting to do with the Christian Unions at the two local universities. I had not met him before so was particularly interested, after exchanging emails about something, to click a link at the foot of his email. The link took [...]
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Nature and structure of dependability arguments particularly but not exclusively in relation to interactive systems
Posted: 6th October 2011 by graham in Gadgets, My life, smile0
Excellent! In future years will be looked back upon as a design classic. This is a class gadget. As I said in a previous post I do not shave with a toy razor (Gillette Fusion, etc) with ludicrously overpriced blades, I shave with a double edged safely razor. Recently I was able to get a [...]
I don’t think you need to run in bare feet to try some of the benefits of what is now being promoted as barefoot running. My last barefoot running post “Barefoot running – don’t!” got lots of hits and a few comments, most of which disagreed with me. But one comment got me thinking: “Looks [...]
These are some of the things that I do not do on my Brompton bike
Posted: 23rd September 2011 by graham in Bicycle, My lifeMy Brompton is too precious to do this with it.
Needing a new watch I happened to notice this one in the window of Bulmer’s, the second-hand shop in York that sells all sorts of treasures. I liked the look of the clear face and the low price of £20. I decided to take the chance and bought it. It was not until closer inspection [...]
Things I did on holiday. Back now to the usual routine. And after a good break, it is good to be back to normality. Penny and I took our caravan to Norfolk, because neither of us had been there in many years We had a great time and here are some of the things we [...]
Some people, when they’ve blown their nose, open the hanky and look at it
Posted: 1st September 2011 by graham in My life, smileI will not ask you. Because I don’t want to know, but… Some people, when they’ve blown their nose, they open the hanky and look at it – study it! There is nothing special about that observation but… I was in the Laura Ashley shop. I had walked through with Penny, using it as a [...]