Mike Riversdale

With a sense of ending our gentleman adventurer strides backwards in time down the lane.

This video, 3 signs that you’ve hit clinical burnout and should seek hel p, compliments the post simply entitled, Stop! , where I give a little background on my own life burnout and how stopping was the simplest act that both saved me and changed everything about me.

Just 2 New albums up on the site: Bodleian Old Library (Oxford, UK) A glorious view of all the statue faces and the whole inner courtyard James Taylor concert A few videos as well as photos at his gig at the Wellington TSB Centre

Between the buildings our keen adventurer strides forth with confidence down the lane.

"Hey look, here's a skinny lane, I wonder what's at the end. Let's go down!"

I know who it looks like, but who is it really? You can see who it looks like, can't you? One of the many stone heads around the Bodleian Old Library court  (Oxford, England) that watch from beside the doors. This one, come on you can see who it looks like surely, is to the right of the door that leads to/from the Clarendon Quad. I'd love to know when it was carved and who it really is, coz it can't be ... well, it can't be can it!

Hmmm, this phone box  is not the best look for a visitor to the city of Oxford.

Nah, surely having personal results is a good thing, it helps us manage the information overload ... no? Well, yes, if it's done with transparency ... big "if". The key is to know on what basis item A is allowed into your view and why item B isn't. Actually, even knowing item B exists is probably the first step. Back in 2011 Eli Pariser talks directly to the Larry, Sergey, and Zuckerberg's of the world asking for them to give us the control and transparency that we need to enjoy what the Internet/Web promised. We never got it eh, and look what happened, we all chose sides and it's messy, dangerous, and very very siloed. As Siouxsie Wiles asked back in 2020: So please, before sharing something, ask yourself these questions: How does this make me feel? Why am I sharing this? Do I know if it’s true? Where did it come from? Whose agenda might I be supporting by sharing it? Yup, this post came out of a historical Pocket save of a Siouxsie Wiles post,  Now let’s

A software engineer in Japan who sometimes makes fun stuff at oimo.io has indeed made fun with Bubbles .

Took my bloody ages farting around with the colours, definition, blur, and all manner of editing malarkey before Miss Muse finally whispered in my ear, "It's another book cover ". Spare a thought to my poor girlfriend who is subjected to, "This one?" after each edit, how annoying for her.

I have called two countries home, Wales and New Zealand. I have called two countries home, Cymru and Aotearoa. Whilst I can only converse with one language and therefore possess one overriding world view I am deeply aware that this is just one of many many ways of viewing the human experience. Language is everything. Your language is everything, all languages are everything. Languages also convey unique cultures. Cherokee, for example, has no word for goodbye, only “I will see you again”. Likewise, no phrase exists for “I’m sorry”. On the other hand, it has special expressions all its own. One word – oo-kah-huh-sdee –represents the mouth-watering, cheek-pinching delight experienced when seeing an adorable baby or a kitten. “All of these things convey a culture, a way of interpreting human behaviour and emotion that’s not conveyed the same way as in the English language,” Belt says. Without the language, the culture itself might teeter, or even disappear. “If we are to survive, to conti

In my search for population details for Monmouth (town, not county) I came across On the Increase of Population in England and Wales by R. Price Williams, published in the Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Sep., 1880), pp. 462-508 (36 pages). A population projection of London and the England and Wales (definitely excluding Scotland and Ireland) takes the last census of 1871 base figure and projects ahead, in ten years increments, to the year 2181. So, the closest to us as I write is 2021. How close was Mr Williams for us right now? Mr Williams has the England and Wales population of 2021 at 91,753,000 (91.7 million) and, at the 2021 census, it was 59,597,542 (59.6 million). You can all do the maths about the percentage difference and where it went wrong for him :) The "immense population" of London in 1871 was 3,254,260 (3.3 million), and was censused in 2021 as 8,799,800 (8.8 million). What did Mr Williams predict it would be, 8 million. Wow, no