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Can anyone remember what the “standard” BJ.c logo looked like?

You know I’ve been having issues with my Internet connection, here in France. Not long ago, I thought I was free of problems…
I sent my Freebox back and signed up with a cable company. At least I could see the cable socket in its little box on the wall of my apartment, otherwise I might […]

I went running again yesterday. First time I felt like running at the weekend but the secret is that it was sunny. My usual habit of running at 6.30 means I get to see the river in the dark. Yesterday I enjoyed the cold winter sun and said “bonjour” to dozens of other runners. Early […]

Like Mithi, I’ve been spending some time in airports lately.
Unlike her, I stuck to black on white. I have been using my new Dark Materials though:
Here’s a little Buddhist cat

Nic and I were back at the Buddhist House last weekend — in fact, at the time of writing, we are featured on their website […]

Back in the days before the invention of the term Open Source, Richard Stallman had to use analogies to explain what he means by Free Software. It’s free as in free speech not free beer. It’s the difference between gratis and libre.
I recently read David Smith’s popular-science type book on economics: Free Lunch. Whilst […]

Mithi was inspired by Jana. Nic, inspired by Mithi, gave me black paper and pastels for Christmas.
I was inspired by Mithi’s flipflops, hence the stripes under this bread.
Fascinated by the idea of leaving a gap in the white to suggest a shadow. This should be the most natural thing in the world, but it […]

When I was at school, my art teacher used to call me Scribbler. No! Seriously, she used to call me that in class.
“Hello Scribbler”, she’d say, “what you been up to?”
She didn’t try and discourage me from my scribbley style either, she told me there was this artist whom she remembered from her training who […]

Happy New Year an’ all that.

We went to the science museum today to have a look at this.
It’s a model of the economy made with pipes and valves and tanks and bits of wire. Wonderful! I’ve passed it by in my previous visits to the Science Museum. And today, while I sat on the floor […]