RT @newscientist: A drowned town resurfaces – population one ow.ly/HCKAw

Hooray – super fast broadband now up and running. This means I can now, er, I dunno, carry on as before.

Kids have just been deconstructing ‘Uncle Billy / lost his willy / on the motorway’. I’m surprised Melvyn Bragg hasn’t done a series on it.

As soon as I’ve got rid of this !!@***%^#?! cough I’m coming for you, 2015. After a bit of a sit down.

@brighty @paulsimongill indeed – I never say that. I can only conclude he has worked it out from first principles. Or someone at nursery…

RT @wikimediauk: Job alert! @bodleianlibs are looking for a Wikimedian in Residence. Applications open until 19 Jan. bit.ly/17zWLrc

This. theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

Rt @newscientist: Give up, humans. This software can now beat *any* human player at poker ow.ly/H39gN (cc @sillage)

@j4 alas failing eyesight is beginning to take its toll 🙁