Here's one for the NERDS 🤓 Or rather, for both computer nerds and for nerds who don't understand anything about computers, but who get frustrated that they don't understand and would like to try to understand a little bit at least. The whole process of setting up my suite of personal websites seems likely to end up clocking in at approximately one year. The following is an attempt to chronicle the development of those sites, and to provide an approximate timeline of work that is yet to be done.

A beautiful day, albeit also a very tiring one, in Manchester yesterday. My class at Sunflower Manchester has been granted an extra month of life, thanks to a personal donation by my students' local MP Christian Wakeford.

Today was a Covid day. That doesn't really mean too much, because I get on with things. The only notable thing about it is that today is Thursday March 20th 2025, and Thursday March 19th 2020 was the day when I woke up and realised fairly quickly that I must have caught Covid 19, despite all efforts taken to avoid it.

Hi, and welcome to my personal blog. Here I'm just going to give you the back story (if you're interested) of what this blog is going to be about, and how it's developed up until now. The subject matter of this blog will be "Everything Else" which is not covered by The Middle East Film Festival (find the link in the post).