What is it about humanity which means that when an iconic building is nearly destroyed, millions of Euros are immediately pledged to rebuild it, but when it was merely in desperate need of proper maintenance nobody gave a damn?

And what does that tell us about the way things are going to play out with climate change?

Before you get worried by the title, I should explain that “Sorry!” is the name of a venerable board game of which my family is rather fond. It’s like a more complex version of Ludo if you know that, and there’s a Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry!_(game) if you want…

I’ve recently become very interested in Fable which allows you to produce javascript output from F# input. Fable is built on quite an array of other, well-established technologies — a good thing, don’t reinvent the wheel — but as a result, it can be quite daunting to get what’s going on…

I was reading two different stories this week. One of them was about the latest plans by the UK government to allow it to see and control what people are doing online or on their devices. The other was about the latest ransom ware scams in which people’s…