A story on BBC News entitled Intimate Strangers discusses the rather unusual encounters we have with people we see routinely, every day, but never talk to. When cycling to work, I tend to see the same collection of people: particularly other cyclists. As the article indicates, one often comes up with special names for these… (read more)

I have an old PC at home which acts as a general-purpose server: local DNS caching, a web development environment (Apache, MySQL and PostgreSQL) and general file store. Prior to obtaining a new router, it was also the firewll, gateway and DHCP server. Its spec (Pentium-II 333MHz with 96MB RAM and an 8GB hard drive)… (read more)