Many science fiction stories are set so far in the future that whatever situation they describe could at least in theory happen by that date. Surprisingly though, a lot of this science fiction contains references to events that were either in the future at the time it was written which are now past and didn’t [...]

There seems to be plenty of disagreement both between different religions and also between different countries as to exactly what day a week starts and ends on. Why there needs to be such disagreements I don’t know since the very way in which the names were first allocated to the days of the week makes [...]

SitePoint Forums have just finished collecting nominations for this year’s member awards. Last year after having been selected as member of the month for August I got nominated for four or five of their annual awards inclusing JavaScript Guru, PHP Guru, and Member of the Year. I think the other nominations were a mistake on [...]

I have reworked all the pages on my model railway website to a new design.

I have a already created a number of web sites on computers and model railways but find that there is occasionally something I would have liked to write about that doesn’t fit the theme of any of my sites. Hence the introduction of this new blog as a place where I can post all those [...]