This year is a bit longer than usual as we have an extra day in February. But it’s probably not the day you think it is. Almost all calendar systems…
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I’ve kept a box in my office for the last few years. On it is marked, “In Emergency, Open Box and Start Company”. I keep it there because I’ve been…
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A few weeks ago I gave a talk about Leap Seconds at Electromagnetic Field (EMF) – an extraordinary camping festival for hackers and makers, held in the UK every two…
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The remarkably named Sir Cloudesley Shovell was by the time of his death in 1707, Admiral of the British Fleet. His ship HMS Association, went down off the Scilly Isles…
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If you work with temporal data on the web then you may be interested in a couple of proposals currently going through the specifications bodies. In the next few years we could…
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The 2016 Last Encore music project has come to a close. When I first spoke about it back in January I remarked that it had been a “rough few weeks for music”.…
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The Ceremony of the Keys is a remarkable tradition that takes place every evening at the Tower of London. At exactly 9:53pm the Chief Yeoman Warder, accompanied by members of…
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Music is a big part of my life. That urge to find great music is as strong now as it was 30 years ago. Finding music is easier with a service like Spotify. It’s…