Author: richard
-
The French Landscape Program – The Tour de France
Reading Time: 2 minutesI like to speak of the Tour de France as the French landscape program. I watch the cycling, not because I care about the cycling but because I like to see the landscapes, the castles, the panoramas, and more. It’s a way of getting travel ideas. Of course I do sometimes like…
-
On the Detrimental impact of Chain Letters on Social Networks
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the 90s, people found it fun to share chain letters. At the time, this was something new to many of us, so we found them fun. We received and then passed them on, but over the volume of chain letters become a torrent of spam. The letter is fun the first…
-
Four Hundred And Sixty Eight Days Of Self Isolation
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe pandemic is still alive and well and the hope that we might have had that the pandemic would end has been scuppered because governments refuse to work towards COVID-Zero, and they refuse to be cautious. It is disheartening to see with which complacency governments are sleeping back into exactly the same…
-
Bits, Bytes and Barrels – A Review
Reading Time: 2 minutesThrough Booktasters I was able to read Bits, Bytes and Barrels, in exchange for an honest review. The book was available to read via Audible so this time I was able to walk, run and do other things whilst listening to the book. I listened to it from start to finish despite…
-
-
-
Empire Of The Deep and Brexit
Reading Time: 4 minutesI am currently reading Empire of the Deep, The Rise and Fall of The British Navy and to read it within the context of Brexit is interesting. We already know that the British gave up on the Catholic Church because Henry the Viii wanted to change wives and the Pope said no.…
-
-
A Walk Under Storm Clouds
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you look at the sky above you and you think that walking underneath it is not wise because a storm could break but you remember that you saw that rain should not come before 1800 so you take the risk and you go for a walk. You look towards Geneva and…