As suggested, this morning, I went and took a photo of the Colindres Town Hall from more or less the same angle as the 60-year-old photo I found on the internet recently.
Not content to leave it as only a “before and after” photo, I downloaded some photo morphing software and made a little video. [...]

Photos from the cathedral in Vitoria, Spain.

This blog post was written by my great-grandmother, Ruth Rasmussen (pictured to the right), 88 years ago. Although her writing does not specify a year, there are some clues. She said that the trial took place on Wednesday, April 28th. By my calculations, April 28th fell on a Wednesday on 1915 and [...]

I’m ashamed to say that I have yet to read any of his books, but I’ve seen a few hours of video from his lectures. Let’s just say that Richard Dawkins refers to him as his “intellectual elder brother”. Check out this excerpt from an essay, entitled Thank Goodness, that Dennett wrote after [...]

For a brief window in the afternoon last Sunday, the sky opened up and revealed a lovely blue color between the towering cumulonimbi before quickly going back to the London mist we were smothered in for all of March.

Yesterday, Hubbers recommended a website called Geni.com to me. It’s a family tree management application. But it can be useful for so much more, because it allows quite a lot of information, such as birthdays, addresses, etc., to be entered about each person, which is only visible to the rest of the family. [...]

For some reason, the other day I thought I’d search Flickr for photos of Colindres. I, of course, am the dominant supplier of Colindres photos to the internet. But in amongst my photos of flowers and bollards, I found some nice ones from long ago, showing just how much Colindres has changed in [...]