I’ve kept a box in my office for the last few years. On it is marked, “In Emergency, Open Box and Start Company”. I keep it there because I’ve been…

A few weeks ago I gave a talk about Leap Seconds at Electromagnetic Field (EMF) – an extraordinary camping festival for hackers and makers, held in the UK every two…

The remarkably named Sir Cloudesley Shovell was by the time of his death in 1707, Admiral of the British Fleet. His ship HMS Association, went down off the Scilly Isles…

If you work with temporal data on the web then you may be interested in a couple of proposals currently going through the specifications bodies. In the next few years we could…

The 2016 Last Encore music project has come to a close. When I first spoke about it back in January I remarked that it had been a “rough few weeks for music”.…

The Ceremony of the Keys is a remarkable tradition that takes place every evening at the Tower of London. At exactly 9:53pm the Chief Yeoman Warder, accompanied by members of…

Music is a big part of my life. That urge to find great music is as strong now as it was 30 years ago. Finding music is easier with a service like Spotify. It’s…

Astronomers are a stubborn and hardy breed. Not only is it a largely nocturnal activity, but the best weather for viewing is usually in the winter, when colder weather brings…