Currently, most of the reading material coming my way is of the mathematical variety. I have spent the last while stealing time to read this – I really have too many plates spinning to be doing any major reading lately but I’m getting there.
If you’re interested in numbers in a slightly more than passing but [...]
I have – in the last year or so -acquired several bread recipe books and from them, on Wednesday, I decided to try a recipe for German Salzbrezen. These remind me of my youth, when I lived in Germany, and had access to fairly decent bakeries. We do not do bakeries well in this country. [...]
Usually I try to keep to reading one book at a time. I’m failing at this at the moment.
Currently, I am reading the following 3 books (seriously).
Alex’s Adventures in Numberland
The Archimedes Principle
The Music of Primes.
You can see a common theme evolving here. Mathematics in some shape or form.
The first book is a fascinating trip around [...]
It’s Sunday morning so, if you are following the relevant characters, you’ll be aware the usual Sunday morning economics debate has sprung up between our tweeting economists. I made a promise after the last time that I wouldn’t get involved.
Yesterday I had a long conversation with a friend about an apartment in Santry. Here’s why. [...]
This photograph was taken with my phone because my camera is not quite to hand.
I completed a postgraduate diploma in information technology with Dublin City University in 2005, and following that, I started some handcrafts. I have done big pieces of mosaic, some tapestry and lots and lots of crochet. Sometime shortly after that – [...]
In 1995, when I was living in Brittany, someone introduced me to a French Christmas tradition. It was the serving of a cake on 6 January, the feast of the Epiphany, and the cake was called Galette des Rois. Mostly it comes with a little bean or figure in it called the feve, and a [...]
Television today has been pretty lousy and it doesn’t look like it is going to get any better. To get around this, there are DVDs.
Today’s viewing, not shown by any television channel this side of the Shannon, included The Dish. It is an absolutely wonderful movie about Parkes Observatory in Australia, which provided most of [...]