A 1927 navigation device. Scroll the map through the viewer to guide you on any of 20 or so pre-set routes.

Yes, I know, it's a link to the Daily Mail. And from a Guardianista like me, too. Sorry...

Cat on the Colosseum



Cat in the Forum

It's about time to cross the streams, and merge three recurring interests across my friends list: ancient history, travel and cats. So here are a couple of old photos that I recently added to Flickr, of some of Rome's famous feral cats lazing about on some of Rome's most famous ruins...

Rome, Italy
September 2000

Here's a link to a scan of Bryan Talbot's short history of the British comic, originally published in the Guardian's Guide supplement.

Of course, if you want a longer history of the form (with a lot more thrown in besides), you couldn't do much worse than read Bryan's Alice In Sunderland...

Yes, there is still a Veronica^*, Santa Claus^**...

...which means there are still people using Gopher! There also appear to be a bunch of Jughead servers out there, too.

Now, I wonder what happened to WAIS?

^*I suspect the link will only work in Mozilla browsers, as they're pretty much the only ones that still support the gopher:// protocol.

^**And yes, I know the original quote was “Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”...

According to this (and other) news articles it appears that Sky is looking at buying Easynet, who bought UK Online, the national ISP I helped start in an old brewery in Shepton Mallet.

The chain goes on.

I wonder if the ducks are still there...