I have been going through my parent's book collection with a view to doing something with it. A lot of it was already inherited once. There are quite a few first edition Agatha Christies, which becau… (View Post)

The car should be anticipating that someone might not be looking. A human can do this. I can drive down the High Street at 1am and see lots of idiots tottering about and unable to walk in a straight … (View Post)

Mount Hood is fine as long as you don't get stuck in the hotel for the winter... (View Post)

Sticking with Linux - ditto... It is all good until someone (yes, you, DEFRA) produces a macro-laden spreadsheet in Excel that you are supposed to fill in. Curse them and all their works. (View Post)

Yes, that's true of quite a few tall conifers in the western US - they really don't do well as single or scattered trees. The coastal redwoods also dry out when standing alone - tall ones often lose … (View Post)