One of the minor pleasures of New Zealand was the Flat White. It’s essentially a cappuccino, but with a finer, creamer foam and a stronger mix that you get in Britain. I’ve missed them, but I may have found an alternative source…

Read on for the most amusing video I've seen all year...

For those of you who have trouble imaging how long 980 double decker buses would be, try imagining 1/38440th of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Alternatively, it’s ~10km. By pure coincidence, this just happens to be the distance that Eilidh ran last Sunday (Photo finish here) raising money for Yorkshire Cancer Centre.

I’ve not really had a chance to blog about what I do now, and how it’s different from what I did before. In a nutshell, I help create software for Digital Preservation. This is an interesting field, as it is full of problems that sound like they should have been solved, but haven’t…

If you're having trouble sleeping, you could try downloading a highly exciting readable article called Lattice-switch Monte Carlo for binary hard-sphere crystals. If you don't have access to that journal, you can download the electronic pre-print here. Although that kind of thing has rather little to do with the work I do now, it was good fun and it's nice to see the work getting published.

After threatening it for a number of years, my Dad has finally set up his own web site. Find out more at Ron Jackson - Now & Then 1939-2006.