I'm Back - Did I Miss Anything?

I’m going to start a public weblog again and it is going to be focussed on technical matters. No politics, no religion, no confessional posts. At times I’ll have to bite my tongue, at times I may slip a little in my aims but I will do my best to keep to this goal.

Blogger served me well in the past but as well as having a different purpose the new weblog is going to run on different software too. It's at www.timhardy.net/wordpress/. Pop by and take a look some time.

It's Been an Education

Due to excessive demands on my time, I am dropping certain projects. This website unfortunately has to go. Thank you to my handful of loyal readers for your support. It has meant a lot.

Update: what is this? This is - or was - a weblog, a site structured around links to other web pages. It used to be updated two to three times a week with the most recent entry at the top of the page. I no longer maintain it and the original email account linked below each post has long since choked to death on spam. If you need to get in touch, you can contact me via =timhardy instead. Just click on the link and follow the instructions: it will ask you to validate your email address first. This is irritating, I know, but it helps weed out the majority of spammers who rely on automated scripts to flood us all with adverts for junk.

Does Thinking Outside the Box Have a Future?

Cyril Connolly, an English critic and friend of Orwell's, compared the English language to a stream in which a few patient anglers sit waiting while, up river, pollution is dumped in by Fleet Street and the BBC. That was 58 years ago, and not much has changed.

Robert Fulford joins Martin Amis in the war against cliché. (Via Dave.)