Merry Christ-maths!

Whatever form your festivities may take, I hope you have a Merry Christmas!

I don’t know why I associate puzzles with Christmas. Maybe it’s childhood memories of tiny plastic tangrams from the insides of crackers, maybe it’s because I’ve been lucky enough to receive lots of puzzle books as gifts over the years. Anyway, here’s one [...]

On the move

If you are reading this – then welcome to my blog’s new home!

I enjoyed using Wordpress.com – and I fully intend to continue to do so – but I always intended to use self-hosted Wordpress for this blog. It just opens up so many more options. Since my old web host couldn’t seem to provide [...]

Retweet? No thanks.

Twitter means different things to different people, I have no problem with that. This is not going to be one of those ‘You Just Don’t Get It Do You? 10 Ways You’re Tweeting It Wrong’ type of posts.

For me, Twitter is about conversation. Retweets are part of that – and something that I’m a big [...]

Goodbye Mr Titen

Once upon a time, in a land known as South Yorkshire, there was a maths teacher who was surfing around the t’Internet. This was back in the days when most web pages were still made from Sellotape, old records and sticky-backed plastic, which might explain why I was so amazed to find Mr Titen’s [...]

All’s well that ends well

This morning I picked up my colleague J, who was dropping her car off for servicing and needed a lift into work. She was distinctly stressed by the time I met up with her, not about the car, but because she had realised that she had managed to leave her laptop at home. There just [...]

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