Happy Birthday Areopagitica
Posted in Updates on 24th August 2004
By my reckoning, Areopagitica - the Content (Mis)management System which sits behind this site - is one year old today. I'd long wondered about writing something like this, and its actually been a rewarding process. The code could badly do with a clean-up - having grown by accumulation over a...
Storm Jameson
Posted in Reading on 24th August 2004
I'm still gradually working my way through a reading list greatly extended at last month's Literary London conference. On the surface, these events could easily make me feel hideously under-educated and poorly read, but what they do in a rather warm, comfortable way is to show me other people's obsessions...
Boomerang Boy on the B&E
Posted in Railways on 21st August 2004
Not, as I mistakenly thought, the penultimate week of the Class 67 hauled Virgin Holidaymaker specials. I had never intended that these workings become a weekly event, or a minor obsession. They do however release me from the need to imagine up new journeys every Friday evening. Also, they are...