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A mistake reading poetry at night, I find,
   but not for fear of sleepless angst
   nor yet of haunted dreams.
Good verse needs concentration,
   yes, and coffee.
Bedtime is for prose.

My car now has a web page. Sadly, it's for my own use and not for public consumption, but I made a little video about it anyway!

Direct link to YouTube if preferred.

Thanks are due to Terence Eden for his work on documenting the API. Oh, and before anyone asks, no, I don't normally leave the cable draped across the pavement. :-)

I was doing a mini clear-out, and decided it was time to say farewell to some old friends. Do you remember the days when some electronic devices didn't look like slabs of black glass?

For younger or less geeky readers, these are, from top-left, a Motorola RAZR (2004), a Nokia E61 (2005), a Blackberry 7100t (2004) and an Ericsson T39m (2001).

My iPhones have been the most useful devices I have ever owned (with the possible exception of my laptops), but each of the above was an iconic, reliable and, for the time, excellent gadget as well.

But, the world has changed.

Where it all started, for me, at least. Spotted on a recent visit to the Whipple Museum.

Money doesn't change you. It just reveals who you really are when you no longer have to be nice.

-- Tim Ferris