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I prefer the version attributed to Aristotle: "Those who can, do; those who understand, teach" A good teacher needs a deep understanding of their topic, often deeper that that requ…

My first encounter with this was on a foggy November morning, and I had no idea what was going on. There's another very similar but smaller one at Heathrow, next to the Hatton Cros…

And copper pans. They need re-tinning every now and again, but they'll last forever.

The British Boot Company (britboot.co.uk)

"Email addresses always have a 'normal' TLD" I registered a ".consulting" domain for my little company when they became available, and it has proved highly problematic ever since. …

Maybe something like this? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/roman-empires-roads-map/

I've often played this after Ralph McTell's "Maginot Waltz", which really contrasts the optimism and patriotism with the reality.

Some people lived through amazing change. My grandmother was born in the late 1890s in rural Wales, and died at 95. She remembered electricity coming to her village and the visit o…

I have a lot of undeletable old photos on my iPhone. The photos are there, but no photo app shows the trash can icon. They aren't on iCloud or any other current device, so I'm thin…

> Do people replace their phones because the battery isn't good anymore Yes. I'm not bothered about the latest thing, and every phone I've replaced has been because of two things: …

Same with bagels here in the UK. Round bread with a hole in it, for the most part.

I used to rely on this on the old DEC systems, when editing and saving foo.dat;3 gave you foo.dat;4. It didn't save everything forever - and you could PURGE older versions - but it…

Dam' right (he says, still developing at 70). Getting older may be compulsory, but I regularly have to help the youngsters out with tech-related matters.

I got given a small Synology box by a brother-in-law, and have not been impressed by their OS or apps, so I just use rsync. It's OK, but as my needs are simple I'm thinking of usin…

The comparison with mechanical keyboards is spot on! Despite having nothing to do with radio or morse in any way, I was given a Vibroplex and it is quite a piece of kit - solid as …

I currently have three editors open: nvim (because I've been using it since it was vi), VS Code (because that's what work mandates) and Emacs (for org mode only). Horses for course…

Years ago we found a large heron with a broken wing on the road outside our house in Wales. It had probably hit a power cable, and was hopping around dragging its wing. It was basi…

My wife does silverpoint. A couple of bucks worth of fine silver wire in an old mechanical pencil, and you're set for years of drawing. Pretty much the cheapest way to do art (and …

I used to get these two or three times a year, but then I had heart surgery last summer and had five in the first day after I came round from the anesthetic, and two or three every…

I have several Indian coworkers who have a single name. Our company systems insist on first and last names, so they either end up with '.' as a last name, or the same name twice.

The Daresbury Laboratory in the UK had a giant Van de Graaff generator housed in a high concrete tower. I remember staying on site and waking up in the middle of the night with a r…

For me it's a bit of both. A programming book that I wrote over 10 years ago - the content is long out of date but the weight reminds me of the effort I put into producing it. Then…

Had this at an ATM recently, and it took a couple of tries at my PIN before I looked at the keypad and realized what was going on. One more wrong PIN and I could have lost my card.…

And some have a manually-operated lever, which is completely silent.

I'm currently in Tokyo and it is the norm to wait for the green man, even if it is a two-lane road there isn't a car in sight. I can understand waiting at one of the mega intersect…