For years I packed for the trip I was afraid of rather than the trip I was taking. The extra shoes for a dinner that never happened, the second jacket for a cold snap that never came. Now everything fits…
Read More“Big Buck Bunny” is a comedy short from the Blender Institute, released in 2008. A large, gentle rabbit is bullied by three rodents, and takes an elaborate, cartoonish revenge.If you work on the web, you have probably seen it without…
Read MoreThe hut sits just below the pass, a stone building with a tin roof and twenty bunks in two rooms. You reach it after five hours of walking, and the first thing you do, before you take off your boots,…
Read MoreErik Satie wrote his three Gymnopédies in 1888, and the first of them has never really gone away. It turns up in films, adverts and waiting rooms, and it still sounds new.The marking at the top of the score asks…
Read MoreThere are few places left where you can walk in, stay all day, and spend nothing. The public library is one of them, and it offers far more than most people remember.Books, of course, and newspapers and magazines. But also…
Read MoreA 75% keyboard keeps the function row and the arrow keys but drops the number pad and squeezes everything else…
