Just over 17 years ago I thought I’d start up a new website, LiveJournal was going though some strange times and I was using that for more locked down content anyway. I wanted somewhere I could post other stuff I found interesting. At the time, I was playing around learning PHP and started putting together …
Author Archives: David
10 Years
Ten years ago today, my aunt mentioned in the last post, died. Fuck Cancer.
30 years.
Thirty years and 7 hours ago I took 20p and went to a phone box that no longer exists to call an aunt who is no longer alive to tell her that her mother was very ill. My grandmother, Flo, died about an hour after my aunt, Michelle, arrived. The early 1990s were a strange …
Merry Christmas
A saved image from a tweet from a screenshot of a message of a photo taken of the back of the camera I took the original photo on.
Grants
An annoying part of my job is trying to convince people to give me money to do the things I’m doing anyway. We’re graded in effect by how much we spend, if we do cheap science with the only spend being on consumable items we are graded poorly. Most of the science I do is …