Tony's Blog

The new city centre PSPO (pronounced pispooo) has had the boundaries carefully drawn to finally bring to an end the long running saga of la...

 I am going to try and put down my thoughts and feelings about things more often. Mainly using this blog for when they don't fit in the ...

I don't get told "Do your research" as often as a lot of other people on the internet, the advantage of not having a wide reac...

If I ask for information, please don't suggest I Google † it or present information that you have just googled yourself and hav...

Goodboy was one of the lucky ones! He was found by the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons in Morphic Street, Ankh Morpork. Here he will be ...

 Terry Prachett's® Guards! Guards! a Discworld® play adapted by Stephen Briggs  Sheffield University Drama Studio Shearwood Rd, Sheffiel...

 Terry Pratchett's GUARDS! GUARDS! A Discworld™️ play. Adapted by Stephen Briggs. 14th-17th February. Presented by Midland Players at th...

 

 

Adapted by Stephen Briggs, presented by Midland Players at the Sheffield University Drama Studio.

Open auditions for Guards! Guards! Please come on Tuesday 10th October at 7.30 pm or Saturday 14th October at 4pm to the Red Deer on Pitt St...

Announcement. The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, sorry Midland Players and I, are staging Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett adapted...

A Wear OS watch app which keeps track of train journeys, showing a "complication" which shows how long it has left and the plat...

Firstly: I want to point out that the Food Standards Agency does not recommend cutting rice out of your diet, and there are regulations abou...

Terrance Eden has written a blog post entitled “ Silence Isn't Consent ” it is a tale of someone hammering one of his sites with a bot a...

Under the cover of beating in-person voter fraud, a problem that simply just does not exist, the Tories have introduced a requirement for ID...

Ten years after I wrote a story about sub-sub-contractors causing reputational problems for the BBC  because the public will look at the big...

This is something I have written for a project I am currently writing. Any corrections/suggestions gratefully recieved. Advice on setting a...

At some point last millenium I had control over the heating and air condition for a reasonably sized building. There was a GUI or you could ...

Something has been bugging me since I first saw the story that  Pulse Oximeter Devices Have Higher Error Rate in Black Patients other than ...

Happy Election day! Alongside all the other reasons to be watching the American elections I have been looking at how they implement the act...

"One way of explaining to somebody why it could make a significant difference if you can do things faster, is to provide a counter exam...

Black Lives Matter. Not much this white guy can add. Although it strikes me that some people [1] hear "Black Lives Matter" as...

The first nonabsolute number is the number of people who will attend the conference call. This will vary during the course of the first thre...

On the subject of trains … The other thing that strikes me is how often the railway debate is seen as binary. As-is verses monolithic state...

As per usual when the January regulated rail prices were announced there was a lot of comment about and around them. A big theme was aski...

EDIT : That thing where you think you've published a blog post before running out to Thanksgiving dinner, then find it in your drafts. ...

On the face of it the face of it you might think that the European Court of Justice ruling " An internal rule of an undertaking which ...

Not perhaps the best day in the year to publish this, but I'm the sort of person where if it doesn't get put down it gets lost. So,...