I’m sure I’ll regret this, but this week I finally began using Twitter. Yes, yes, I know. Anyway… If you haven’t used it before, or seen the results, then the simplest way to explain it is to compare it with this weblog: here, I send out reasonably well-thought-out ‘articles’, of perhaps a few paragraphs in… (read more)

It occurs to be, with the advent of 2009, it is approaching twenty years since I first started using email. This began in my first week of my undergraduate degree at Exeter in the autumn of 1989, aged 18. Here’s a bit of computing nostalgia for you… My course was MSOR: a combination of statistics,… (read more)