Author Archives: dgm

I’ve been quiet recently. Not quite true, there’s posts and updates elsewhere, but it’s true to say that I’ve not been writing a lot. In part it’s because we’re just recovering from two long weekends in a row and a … Continue reading →

Following on from my post on Vikings and cats I remembered a post of mine from 2008 about a genetic analysis of mice in the UK which showed that mice from Scotland Ireland and Wales have a more Scandanavian genome … Continue reading →

About three weeks ago, my watch strap broke. It was a fairly expensive watch, and I caught it in time so there was no need for any wailing. The only problem is that being a moderately upmarket watch I probably … Continue reading →

After last week’s arty excursion to Goulburn, we thought we’d go to the Turner exhibition at the NGA. It’s billed as the ‘making of a master’ and it’s exactly that – a collection of paintings that trace the development of … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading a biography of Henry Rawlinson, one of these larger than life nineteenth century characters who was one of the first to translate Cuneiform script, as well as incidentally being one of the people responsible for fomenting the … Continue reading →

As I tweeted earlier today, I suddenly realised that it’s around 40 years since I wrote my first code – as part of a maths option in high school. The programming language was Algol68 and the code was a hello … Continue reading →

I’ve previously written about Alexander Burnes and his Scottish connections. Burnes was of course a participant in the ‘Great Game’, the jousting for power in Asia between Britain, through its Indian Empire, and Russia with it’s expansion East. There is a tendency to focus on … Continue reading →