The other day, I walked by a wall that had some moss on top, perfectly lit by a sunbeam.

Moving from the US to the UK to Europe, which all use different shoe size metrics, means that when I’m shoe shopping and the shoe salesperson asks me what size I wear, I no longer have any idea what to say. I look like an idiot while I start examining my current shoes to [...]

I enjoyed my walk so much on Saturday, I took Marga up there on Sunday. I also took my binoculars and had a look around. We had a good time, saw some goats and a kitten.
But before that, on Sunday morning, I took a different kind of mountain walk. I went and [...]

On Saturday, the weather was gorgeous, so, after lunch, I went for a walk in the nearby hills. Marga wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to come, but I couldn’t resist the urge for some fresh air and sunshine. I didn’t have any particular destination in mind when I set out from home, [...]

As a java programmer, I find myself very often wanting to perform a particular operation on only certain items in a collection. How many times have you written code that looks like this?

code span.keyword {
font-weight:bold;
color: #000080;
}
code span.member {
font-weight:bold;
color: #660e7a;
}
code span.annotation {
color: #808000;
}
code span.static {
[...]

On Saturday, we decided to have a light, easy lunch. I was sitting in the living room watching the Simpsons, and Marga was preparing lunch in the kitchen. It was that episode of the Simpsons where the Japanese steal Homer’s face to use as a detergent logo, Mr. Sparkle. Keep in mind [...]

The other day I saw a bloke walking along the top of a crane several hundred meters away. So I got out my binoculars and watched him for a bit to figure out what he was doing and how he behaved a couple dozen meters above the ground. The budding photographer in me [...]

It has been really windy around here lately. On Sunday night, we had to crank the volume on the television way up just to hear what was being said over the banging of the shutters. Plus, there’s some orifice on the roof of our building that Mother Nature sometimes plays like a flute [...]

I’ve noticed a new kind of spam getting through my blog’s spam filters lately. I’ve dubbed it “praise spam”. You see, whenever you leave a comment, you can optionally leave the URL to your website. This serves several purposes. Sometimes, as I’m reading a discussion on a blog, one commenter will [...]

Once again, the internet and human creativity have astounded me. Today, class, we’re going to learn about manualists. Does anyone know what a manualist is? Raise your, um, hands. No? Well then you’re in for some enlightenment.
When I was in elementary school and middle school, some people in my class [...]