Category Archives: Links round-up

Hi all, Winter is coming. More accurately, winter has arrived, taken off its shoes and declared its intention to crash on our couch until further notice, much like John Belushi. I’m sitting in the DPhils office at BSG, looking out … Continue reading →

Hi all, That sound you can hear faintly in the background is faraway crowds mispronouncing the word ‘defence’ at great volume and repeatedly. That is correct: the NBA season has started again, and while Zion Williamson has injured himself (it … Continue reading →

Hi all, I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. Actually, that’s not remotely true, I actually write this sitting on the bus to Oxford at ridiculously early o’clock, though the odds are I’ll actually wind up sending this e-mail … Continue reading →

Hi all, We live in interesting times. The news is full of extraordinary events: the Extinction Rebellion going on pretty much directly outside this building. Virat Kohli is rewriting the law of averages. Politics are… shall we just say eventful, … Continue reading →

Hi all, Today, I have been thinking about shifting goalposts. The computers I’m working with today (yes, plural: I’m doing some mind-numbing data work that requires two screens) are light years away from the machines I used as a teenager, … Continue reading →

Hi all, Yesterday, a friend sent me an e-mail full of Stata code; this isn’t how we normally communicate, she was trying to help me format some tables better. But in a perfect encapsulation of my attitude towards Stata, my … Continue reading →

Hi all, I went out at this afternoon for a meeting, and walked face-first into an enormous, boisterous crowd of young people (and a few conspicuous parents trying not to embarrass their children). Rather than a Boyzone concert (am I … Continue reading →

Hi all, Steve Smith is batting. In 2229, when the earth is a furnace, stripped bare of vegetation and the humans are being harvested for energy by the machines, Steve Smith will still be batting. And in 21917, when the … Continue reading →

Hi all, Normally, these intros write themselves. I say something about the weather (this is England, after all, where complaining about the weather is almost a spectator sport), make a thinly veiled allusion to whatever the political farrago of the … Continue reading →

Hi all, Well, what the heck am I supposed to say about that innings? No England batter can ever have batted better (say that three times fast), doing virtually everything a batsman will ever have to do in a career … Continue reading →