Churches and alehouses are ubiquitous in Britain. The names change from time to time but many of the sites have been occupied for centuries. Back before the advent of GPS and…

September is always a busy month for the digirati of Brighton. The popular dConstruct and Flash On The Beach conferences have traditionally fallen then and they have attracted a number…

image by John Dalziel from the Just So Festival 2011. Creative Commons licence CC0 1.0 As summer draws to a close in the Northern hemisphere it’s almost time to turn…

Hello friends. I trust you all had a good solstice. I would have written sooner but there didn’t seem much point, what with the rapture and all. I’m told we’re…

I once met a prominent member of the UK Sceptics Society. It was on the day of Douglas Adams funeral and I was mourning in good company. I was in…

Big History chronicles all the major events from the Big Bang to the present day. It attempts to bring together the timelines of written history, archeology, geology and cosmology, and…

Last weekend I took part in History Hack Day. I’ve been wanting to reboot the Computus Engine for a while and what better excuse than this. As a Hack Day…

As 2010 recedes into memory I hope you enjoyed our annual Gregorian rollover as much as I did. Skittles vodka, that’s all I’m saying. This years collection of temporal rollover…