A lovely if rather melancholy Christmas tune, recorded here in Walthamstow, released today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W8dVo7DJgc

You will be far away this Christmas It may seem colder than before This year I might go walking longer In the forest past the chapel door I hope it snows where you are living I...

Fascinating to see how the Oxford vaccine was developed and tested, particularly the method (totally standard) of proving there was a T-cell reaction to the first two vaccinated individuals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-cotton

Amazing service from my favourite hosting company (have used them since 2002) - when I asked for pointers on going about creating automatic backups of a mongo DB into a private directory, with folders containing the date and being driven by a daily cron job... they wrote the script for me (which I can now tweak to m...

In the virtual audience for the infinite monkey cage.