On Monday I met the guys behind Codility – quite an interesting system designed to help with the recruitment of software developers. Basically, it lets you set simple programming tasks for developers, which they can perform online and in the language...

Just around the corner from my house, where the footpath from Cambridge to Grantchester begins, is Skaters’ Meadow. In the 19th century, the meadow would flood, freeze, and people would pay a penny or two to skate around the lamppost in the middle ...

Michael reveals The Great Dried Fruit Conspiracy.

Long-time readers may remember a post from a couple of years ago about Keith Loutit’s photos of Singapore, cunningly taken to make the city look like a model: Well, as tends to happen in the digital world, what was a still image yesterday is a video...

Rose’s second novel, The Counterfeit Guest, comes out in standard paperback today. It was launched a year ago, but these books come out first as a hardback and a ‘trade paperback’ – a large paperback almost as big as the hardback, sold chiefly in...