Ian Betteridge

Dear Ian, Congratulations on leaving Hatfield and getting a pretty good degree! I’d like to say that you worked...

For anyone that has spent the last 20 years or so typing on ever less satisfying keyboards, writing with the...

It’s hard to write anything meaningful at the moment without referring to COVID-19, and the prospect of another national...

I’ve been watching episodes of The Computer Chronicles quite a lot lately (they’re all available on a YouTube...

Tuesday saw us head again to the Curzon to see Kajillionaire, which is a lovely film that I’d recommend...

On Tuesday we ventured out to the cinema (again) to see Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks. Our local Curzon...

This week was the deadline for the latest piece of coursework in the masters that I’m working on (senior...

Abbreviated this week, basically because I want to do some more reading today. But I have some links for you....

There are a hundred little ways which the pandemic has changed our lives, often without us noticing. For example: despite...

Of course, a couple of weeks go I should have said that I was on holiday so wouldn’t be...

I missed last week’s note thanks to a huge bout of tiredness which left me pretty exhausted and sleepy...

I try not to grumble too much when I’m writing these notes. However, 36 degree heat isn’t really...

I started writing a post this week about the two major trends in computing devices at the moment: pervasive computing...

I’ve been on holiday this week. Of course that means I spent the first few days being anxious about...

When I left school in 1983 my ambitions boiled down to owning a van and being in a band. The...