I have just returned from a rare trip to the cinema, and am still stunned by the sheer brilliance of the film The Imitation Game, in which genius British logician and cryptologist Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) helps crack Germany’s Enigma Code during World...
In my last blog post I recounted a tale about how I (almost) lost out on winning an eBay auction for a large and lucrative lot of CDs. Luckily the deal came back to me in the end. It’s worth checking out that post, entitled ‘Use This Killer ‘Sniper’...
UPDATE: See details of an automated solution at the end of this article. I could kick myself for being so stupid. Whilst typing these words I’m still seething at the thought of what I have done…or not done, to be more accurate. Let me explain….(In fact this...
The advent of spring heralds two particular joys for me: the start of another Formula One Motor Racing season, along with the beginning of the open-air car boot season. Both quite diverse subjects, I grant you. Technically, we have a couple of weeks to go...
One of my earliest childhood memories involves watching Wimbledon’s tennis coverage with my mother on a rather small, flickering, black and white TV screen. In 1962, Rod Laver had just won his second Men’s Final on the trot, and as my mother is a fellow Aussie, she...
