AM travelling to London (again) tonight, as does my wife. This will hopefully be the last time.

The last time we voluntarily went to London it was to meet my sister, who gave birth a few days ago. It was her first child and that’s important because I am close to my sister and the delivery went OK; it’s a boy, like me. It might even be my sister’s only child.

Life goes on and next week I intend to alter my workflow to be able to produce more articles and better articles.

don’t typically write about pets here, I tend to cover that in another site.

The shells will soon mark 8 weeks in their dedicated water tank. So far I’ve found no dead shells, so it probably went well.

Earlier today I did partial water change of the shells and they seem happy with that so far. It’s hard to interpret their “feelings” about this, harder than it is to assess the emotion of fish
e.g. stress.

here are cyber attacks against our Web sites this week. These attacks take several different forms. These are clearly censorship attempts. We have paper trail to prove that.

Any attacks – no matter their form – tend to indicate fear. In this case, the fear is that information that we published will be available and remain available for many years to come.

Sustaining attacks is one thing; reporting them is another. What’s happening is illegal. It will be treated as such.

We’ll carry on publishing as usual. Curtailing access to information is never a winning strategy for all sorts of reasons.

t’s ending. After 4 shows in the local stadium. “Doors for Take That on Wednesday 1 July open at 5:00pm with support from 6:25pm.” They’ll finish and pack up in an hour or so, back off the limelight again. No more “Shine”.

Maybe we’ll see them again in 5 years when they turn 60 and maybe by then England will have won a World Cup again. Seems unlikely. They have barely beaten DR Congo.

still remember finishing my thesis about two decades ago and working on experiments that compared my algorithms to those of Bill Crum. We used different approaches and compared them.

Bill was always nice to me and today I discovered that he has medical problems and he wrote a book about it. In a way, we sort of coauthored works (or collaborated with his division down in London). I hope he will find a way to cope with health perils.