If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of the most difficult things to get to grips with when learning Esperanto is the correlatives: things like who, what, when, where, which and so on.
Look at them in English, and you can see that they’re all quite [...]

I’ve seen a few notices for Non-photography day stuck to lamp-posts and switch boxes around London these last few weeks. They’re large, but discrete, and easy to pass by. They look almost exactly like the associated site, which is very difficult to find, as Google has more or less passed it by.
It’s a simple idea [...]

Apple opened a new store on New York’s Fifth Avenue on Friday. His Jobsness himself was there to oversee proceedings, and to celebrate its minimalist glassy genius, the Apple people set up a time lapse camera to record all the comings and goings of the first 24 hours.
For the most part, it’s fairly mundane, but [...]

What a great contest. Admittedly it went in waves, starting out quite slow and dull, but the middle section was fantastic, with some really different songs that broke the Eurovision mold once and for all. The fact that the winners were Lordi, a metal band dressed as some creatures from a post-apocalyptic nightmare world, helped [...]

Ze Frank is trying to make the earth into a sandwich. A simple idea: you put your slice of bread on the ground somewhere, take a picture and plot its location on Google Maps. That pinpoints the opposite spot, so someone else can put a slice there, take another picture and, voila, earth sandwich.
Not so [...]

The second most important night of annual TV: the Eurovision semi-finals.
I was thinking it was a shame the UK didn’t have to qualify, because there was no doubt in my mind that we would have been chucked out for that embarrassing monstrosity of a song we’ve entered for Saturday’s final, but then I was pretty [...]

Three spaces you might not want to park in, snapped in east London yesterday morning.

Guy Kewney once told me that I should envy him because I’ll never earn as much money as he does.

The funniest clip of the day has to be the cabbie the BBC interviewed about the Apple v Apple court case, thinking he was said Kewney. Kewney, who is white, bearded and has no discernible accent, [...]

Happy Baishakhi Mela. Today was Bengali new year - the first day of year 1413. I don’t know wether those last two digits are unlucky, but certainly Brick Lane seemed to be happy about seeing the new year in. I went down there this morning to watch the processions and wander through the markets. The [...]

Dinner with the ladies tonight. We had Pimms standing outside the White Horse to start, which in my book marked the first day of proper spring. Pimms done, we walked south through Soho and Leicester Square, over the river and down onto a packed South Bank for dinner.
We got on to talking about silly neuroses [...]