Happy new year* *The Bad Astronomer explains just what a year is these days – saves me having to.
Category Archives: General
24th Chaos Communication Congress
I was hoping to be spending this week at 24C3. It hasn’t worked out. A shame, as it looks like fun. Next year.
Sixty today
On on Dec. 16, 1947 – sixty years ago today – the world’s first transistor was constructed and tested at Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA. Those responsible for the device were William Shockley, the theorist and John Bardeen and Walter Brattain who actually constructed the first one. What started life as a heap of precariously …
Lost Dagenham
Another image from the archives this week: Clay Cottages of Marston Avenue. You won’t find them there now though, these last two were demolished in 1962, razed to make room for garages. These particular cottages were around 500 years old – some of the oldest dwelling places in Essex. They originally had no first floor, …
Fire
No pictures from the archives this week, mainly because I’ve misplaced the box full of photographs. Instead, here is a rather poor shot of the fire in Stratford earlier today. As seen from about two miles away at Mile End about an hour after it started.