Sunday 31 January 2016
by Wulf
Comments Off on Pressing Through
I saw an interesting TED talk recently – Tim Harford talking about how frustration can make us more creative. Worth a listen, especially if you want to be creative and feel frustrated. Press on through!
Saturday 30 January 2016
by Wulf
Comments Off on Garden Birdwatch
Every year the RSPB runs a survey called the Big Garden Birdwatch and this is the weekend. Jane did the watching for us this morning, spending an hour keeping her eyes peeled and noting the highest number reached of any … Continue reading
Friday 29 January 2016
by Wulf
Comments Off on Yeti
Jane and I had dinner out at the Yeti restaurant on Cowley Road last night. We’d wanted to try something new with a leaning towards (a) something towards Chinese or Indian cuisine and (b) something towards our end of town. … Continue reading
Thursday 28 January 2016
by Wulf
Comments Off on When Computers Start to Laugh…
Yesterday I started reading The Mechanism of the Mind by Edward de Bono. When I had picked it up from the library last week I thought it was a new book but it turns out to only be a new … Continue reading
Wednesday 27 January 2016
by Wulf
Comments Off on Looking Down on the Garden – January 2016
Around Oxford, the winter has been more wet than cold so it was a bit misleading to catch my shots for my ongoing visual survey project on a frosty morning last week: The stand of Cornus (left hand side, in … Continue reading
Tuesday 26 January 2016
by Wulf
Comments Off on Top of the Password Pops
Is your password still 123456? If so, you’ve got a large amount of company, sharing the slot for the most common password which remains unchanged from last year, according to a recently released summary from SplashID. The long-term favourite password … Continue reading
Monday 25 January 2016
by Wulf
Comments Off on Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face
You can get a translation for that title. As you might have guessed, it signifies the annual celebration of Burns’ Night and is the first line of Robert Burns poem “Address to a Haggis”. No prizes guessing what’s on the … Continue reading