03/05/2008:

Photos.

14/04/2008:

Photos and updates to Pop CD catalogue.

27/03/2008:

A review added of Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life?

19/03/2008:

A blog entry on the coming end of civilisation. Enjoy.

18/03/2008:

Photos of Chester and Yorkshire.

05/03/2008:

A review added of The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt.

21/02/2008:

Some photos of the Science Park and updates to the Pop CD catalogue.

09/02/2008:

Some photos (Yorkshire and Ely).

26/01/2008:

A review added of Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks.

05/01/2008:

• Some photos.
• A review of Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively.
• A review of a book about Fawlty Towers.

15/12/2007:

A review of Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger.

27/11/2007:

• Photos from Yorkshire.
• A review of a biography of R S Thomas, who was a Welsh poet.

27/10/2007:

With the predictability of a Coldplay tune come this year's Anglesey Abbey autumn photographs.

25/10/2007:

Photos of York.

21/10/2007:

• Photos of Bury St. Edmunds, Lavenham and Cambridge.
• Updates to the Pop CD catalogue.

20/10/2007:

• A review of a biography of DH Lawrence.
• More photos.

11/10/2007:

More photos of nothing in particular.

30/09/2007:

John Hiatt's Slow Turning added to the Pop CDs page.

26/09/2007:

Photos from the north.

16/09/2007:

Photos of Saffron Walden.

10/09/2007:

A review of Love, etc by Julian Barnes.

08/09/2007:

Photos of the Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival.

05/09/2007:

Life's a riot in the Cambridge Science Park.

03/09/2007:

Cameraphone photos of the office dragon boat practice session.

30/08/2007:

Photographic fruit of an afternoon in the north Fens.

27/08/2007:

More photos from Yorkshire.

19/08/2007:

A review of Goodbye to All That.

13/08/2007:

Photos of a dual carriageway at dusk.

06/08/2007:

Photos from Norfolk.

30/07/2007:

Photos from my weekly drive through Suffolk.

26/07/2007:

Photos are now retrieved in manageable chunks if there are a lot of them.

22/07/2007:

Photos of woods and pylons.

09/07/2007:

Photos of Rob and Margo's wedding and a couple of days with the parental units.

02/07/2007:

• A review of Oxygen: the Molecule that made the World.
• Some photos of Chippenham Fen.

11/06/2007:

• A new colour scheme for the site, since the last one was pretty awful.
• Photos from just outside Cambridge.

06/06/2007:

Photos of:

• Stamford
• Yorkshire
• Lancaster
• Arnside (Cumbria)

22/05/2007:

Links to my Amazon CD lists added to the Music page in a fit of egotism.

19/05/2007:

New:

• A review of The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn.
• A review of The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis by Adam Eason.
• Photos of Kedington in Suffolk.
• Updates to the Pop CD catalogue.

10/05/2007:

A review of Elkhonon Goldberg's The Executive Brain added.

08/05/2007:

Photos of churches, sunsets.

30/04/2007:

April's photo count now suggestive of pathological malfunction... These are of Sudbury.

28/04/2007:

A few photos of parts of Cambridgeshire.

18/04/2007:

A review added of Thinks... by David Lodge.

15/04/2007:

Some photos of some of Suffolk.

14/04/2007:

A review of Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks.

10/04/2007:

Photos from Easter weekend up north.

05/04/2007:

A few photos of Burwell Fen.

01/04/2007:

Most of the photos have been sharpened and made consistent in size, as if it mattered.

12/03/2007:

I've been having a mental time of it lately, reading books by Derren Brown and Aldous Huxley.

And there are some more photos.

07/03/2007:

A few more photos. Not many.

04/03/2007:

Some pictures of tonight's lunar eclipse. Unfortunately I didn't perfect the camera settings till the end, but still, some of them came out surprisingly well.

26/02/2007:

A review added of a biography of André Gide. He was a French writer.

03/02/2007:

• The Manic Street Preachers' Know Your Enemy added (with some reservations) to the Pop CDs page.
• Having just added to the oBlog page I'm concerned about the impression it gives of me as a raging head-case, although not concerned enough (yet) to stop writing it.

29/01/2007:

Albums by Neil Diamond and Johannes Schmoelling added to the Pop CDs page.

21/01/2007:

Some fenny photos.

16/01/2007:

A page of brief photo notes added.

13/01/2007:

To celebrate the 5th anniversary (*) of me having nothing better to do with my spare time, Dogsticks has been given a garish new look.

The site's optimised for Firefox. In Internet Exploder, some of the headings are a little oversized but I think it's basically OK.

There are one or two small usability/design gremlins still lurking that I intend to get around to fixing some time in the next geological epoch.

Another minor change is that headings in the Photos pages are now clickable, so you can cross-click between dates and places until you find something more interesting to do.

For those non-existent people who care, here's what the site used to look like:

(*) To the day, as it happens.

06/01/2007:

More photos of bits of Yorkshire.

03/01/2007:

• More photos.
• Updated the UK Poetry Magazines page.

31/12/2006:

Post-Xmas photos added.

23/12/2006:

oBlog updated with festive spleen.

17/12/2006:

• First sensible photos from my new digital SLR and its poncy lens.
• Pop CD catalogue updated.

10/12/2006:

Photo date search results are now more appealingly arranged. I think so anyway.

09/12/2006:

oBlog added.

08/12/2006:

A review of yet another of those "science and spirituality" books added, but actually this one - The Self-Aware Universe - is quite interesting.

06/12/2006:

An excessive number of photos from a trip to Berlin.

25/11/2006:

A few family pics from Yorkshire.

15/11/2006:

The trees are certainly having a party this autumn: check out these exhibitionists by the B1102 and in the Science Park.

12/11/2006:

More autumn photos - of Cambridge.

11/11/2006:

• Yet more photos of Anglesey Abbey (plus a few more of the Science Park).
• A poem accepted for publication.

09/11/2006:

Farewell to Bleak House after 10 months.

04/11/2006:

It's this year's autumn snaps of Anglesey Abbey.

01/11/2006:

Autumn comes to the Science Park.

21/10/2006:

Some stuff added to the Pop CD catalogue.

14/10/2006:

A review of Phantoms in the Brain by VS Ramachandran added.

09/10/2006:

A review of The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey added.

30/09/2006:

• Publication dates added to the Poems page.
• Schubert's 9th Symphony added to the Classical Music page.

23/09/2006:

After a summer of unsuccessful attempts, I finally manage the ascent of Ely Cathedral's octagon tower.

13/09/2006:

Photos of that jewel of Cambridge, the Science Park.

10/09/2006:

Some more bits added to the Classical Music page.

02/09/2006:

Photos from the Yorkshire Dales and a walk in Wales.

22/08/2006:

A random photo thumbnail now appears on the home page, as you can see. You can click it if you want.

20/08/2006:

Random quotations now grace this home page.

05/08/2006:

In the lower levels of the "Photos by place" pages, thumbnails of individual photos are now arranged under date headings. For example here's the photos of Ely.

30/07/2006:

Stuff:

• Photos from a visit to outrageously twee Saffron Waldon plus some of telegraph poles near Burwell.
• Pop CD Catalogue updated.

27/07/2006:

Photos added of an office trip to Go Ape! in Thetford Forest, done in the name of teambuilding or something.

23/07/2006:

Photos of Bury St. Edmunds and a few more of Ely.

16/07/2006:

Exceptionally clear weather made it a good weekend for photographs of Ely. There are also some of Sudbury, and of Lavenham from a couple of weeks back.

14/07/2006:

New science book review: The Space Between Our Ears by Michael Morgan.

08/07/2006:

A review of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions added.

20/06/2006:

Some photos of Newark-on-Trent, Gargrave and Skipton added.

16/06/2006:

New photos of various places added.

26/05/2006:

Two poems accepted for publication: this one and this one.

24/04/2006:

The poetry magazines response times page has been funked up slightly.

17/04/2006:

A review of a book about Information Theory added.

08/04/2006:

New photos of Washington, DC and New York.

25/03/2006:

A review of The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot added.

18/03/2006:

Ooh, there's been a lot going on today:

• A page of notes about poetry magazines.
• Updates to the Pop CD catalogue.
• A couple of albums added to the Favourite Pop CDs page.

09/03/2006:

A review of Untold Stories by Alan Bennett added to the Biography/Memoir Book Reviews page.

08/03/2006:

Photos added:

• Cilcain, Wales
• Chippenham Fen

26/02/2006:

Photos of Ely added. And one of Swaffham Prior Fen.

06/02/2006:

Pop CD catalogue updated.

22/01/2006:

A review of DNA by James Watson added.

10/01/2006:

• A poem.
• Photos of Florence.

02/01/2006:

• A review of The Conscious Universe by Dean Radin added.
• Photos added:
  • Bits of Cheshire
  • A cat in Thurcroft, S. Yorks
  • Long Melford, Suffolk
  • Lavenham, Suffolk

18/12/2005:

• A poem accepted for publication.
• Some photos of Chippenham Fen added.

29/11/2005:

A review of The Non-Local Universe by a couple of geezers added.

19/11/2005:

Pop CD Catalogue brought up to date, pretty much.

18/11/2005:

Stuff:

• A few photos of Burwell Church
• A review of Science and the Paranormal by Arthur Ellison.

10/11/2005:

Two poems accepted for publication by Other Poetry: one about pylons, the other about nothing much.

06/11/2005:

• Some photos of the microscopic Cambridgeshire village of Reach added.
• A review of Man and the Natural World by Keith Thomas added to the History Book Reviews page.

02/11/2005:

More photos of Anglesey Abbey added.

30/10/2005:

A review of Entanglement by Amir Aczel added to the Science Book Reviews page.

21/10/2005:

Photos of mellow Wicken Fen added.

03/10/2005:

A review of Slaughterhouse 5 added.

22/09/2005:

A review added of Steve Jones's The Language of the Genes.

16/09/2005:

Photos added of Bratislava and Vienna.

31/08/2005:

A couple more book reviews:

• The Great Gatsby
• The Double Helix

24/08/2005:

• Photos of QUALCOMM Cambridge's punting trip added.
• Poetry achievement of the year! A poem to appear in 'The Rialto'.

17/08/2005:

New stuff:

• Photos from the last 3 months
• A review of David Lodge's Therapy
• Non-reviews of books I couldn't finish

01/08/2005:

Two book reviews added:

• Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?

12/07/2005:

A review added of An Anthropologist on Mars.

03/07/2005:

A review added of a book about relativity.

24/06/2005:

A review of an interesting book about hypnosis added.

07/06/2005:

A few miscellaneous photos added.

02/06/2005:

Pop CD Catalogue brought up to date.

28/05/2005:

A review of The God of Small Things added.

14/05/2005:

Reviews of The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and The Sense of Being Stared At added.

26/04/2005:

Photos of South Africa added.

09/04/2005:

A poem accepted for publication in Poetry Monthly.

06/04/2005:

Some photos of Wharfedale added.

25/03/2005:

A review added of a book on British geology that is almost as old as the rocks it describes.

14/03/2005:

A work trip to California is recorded in photos.

26/02/2005:

Pop CD Catalogue brought up to date.

17/02/2005:

Photo timeline added.

12/02/2005:

More floral activity at Anglesey Abbey. (After following the link, scroll down to view the latest pictures, or alternatively click here.)

08/02/2005:

A review of Gerald Edelman's Bright Air, Brilliant Fire added.

31/01/2005:

Poetry mag Obsessed with Pipework is going to publish either Between Estuaries or M6 Toll Plaza.

11/01/2005:

A review of George Johnson's Fire in the Mind added.

03/01/2005:

Stuff added:

• Average submission response times for UK poetry magazines.
• A few more photos.
• A review of Nice Work by David Lodge.

24/12/2004:

Three (count 'em) more poems accepted for publication in Fire. Also, the list of poems is now database-generated.

08/12/2004:

Another poem ('Sleeper') due for publication.

04/12/2004:

A review of Gide's L'immoraliste has been added.

02/12/2004:

Searching photos by date is now possible. To demonstrate just how possible, some new photos have been uploaded.

13/11/2004:

Improved photo viewing - 'Prev' and 'Next' links added to photo pages.

05/11/2004:

A review of The Emperor's New Mind added.

04/10/2004:

• A review of Crime and Punishment added.
• A Music Book Reviews page added.
• A brief-to-the-point-of-pointlessness review of a book on Beethoven added.

23/09/2004:

Another poem ('Winter') accepted for publication.

16/09/2004:

Photos of Poland added.

07/09/2004:

• Photos of Cambridge, Burwell, Great Bradley and Rattlesden added.
• A review of Paul Auster's City of Glass added.

03/09/2004:

Two more poems due to be published.

30/08/2004:

Some recent photos of Norfolk added.

27/08/2004:

A review of Nick Herbert's Quantum Reality added.

25/08/2004:

• A few bits and pieces added to the Pop CD Catalogue.
• A solitary Science link has been added.

16/08/2004:

• Photos of Wales and London have been added.
• I've just finished reading Heinz R Pagels' The Cosmic Code.
• Another of my miserable poems has been accepted for publication.

29/07/2004:

A review of Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Capital added.

26/07/2004:

A review of a strange book called The Cosmic Serpent added.

19/07/2004:

Some photos of Cheshire and Staffordshire added.

22/06/2004:

Weeks of wrestling with Perl and MySQL have finally yielded database-driven photo viewing.

27/05/2004:

A review of Lampedusa's The Leopard added.

06/05/2004:

Reviews of some more biographies that I've read over the years have been added.

27/04/2004:

Fine weather, lighter evenings and a digital camera mean further photos to inflict on visitors. These are of Suffolk and - just for a change - Cambridgeshire.

20/04/2004:

Yet more photos of fens added.

17/04/2004:

A review of John Ruskin's Selected Writings added.

03/04/2004:

The Pop CD Catalogue is now pretty much complete.

01/04/2004:

Photos of Venice added.

21/02/2004:

More photos of the Fens added.

17/02/2004:

• Reviews of some more weighty pre-1900 novels added.
• Some photos of the Fens added.

03/02/2004:

News items older than 3-odd months are now siphoned off onto an archive page.

29/01/2004:

• Two more of my poems are going to be published by the ever-charitable Pulsar.
• A Links page has been added.

26/01/2004:

A review of Norman Davies' 'The Isles' added to the History Book Reviews page.

24/01/2004:

More entries added to the pop CD catalogue..

15/12/2003:

Further expansion of the pop CD catalogue has taken place.

29/11/2003:

Some more entries added to the pop CD catalogue.

11/11/2003:

Some photos of Anglesey Abbey added.

09/11/2003:

A review of 'Identity' by Milan Kundera added.

02/11/2003:

The Photos page now has thumbnails, and some pictures of Brittany.

13/10/2003:

Pop CD Catalogue added.

20/09/2003:

Two more poems added.

26/07/2003:

A review of The Light of Day by Graham Swift added.

Reviews of other books have also been spruced up slightly.

(PS Recently updated items now have an 'Updated' label.)

12/07/2003:

Two more classical music reviews added.

(PS New items on all pages now have a 'NEW!' label indicating when they were added.)

09/07/2003:

A review of Stefan Zweig's Schachnovelle added.

04/07/2003:

It's been a busy day:

• A review of Great Expectations added.
• Three more of my favourite pop CDs added.
• Two new poems added.

18/06/2003:

A review of Afternoons in Utopia added to the Pop CDs page.

11/06/2003:

Another poem (Swimming) added.

31/05/2003:

More stuff added to the UK Poetry Magazines page.

25/05/2003:

Another poem (Twitch) added.

08/05/2003:

Comments on Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata updated to include Stephen Kovacevich's new recording. Another poem (Trouble) added.

24/04/2003:

A review (only half a century late) of JK Galbraith's The Affluent Society added.

21/03/2003:

What do Simple Minds and Ludwig van Beethoven have in common? They have both just had reviews added to Dogsticks.

11/03/2003:

The last of Dogsticks' broken links has been banished. Appropriately enough this historic event is due to the addition of the History Book Reviews page.

10/03/2003:

I've just finished reading The Older Hardy by Robert Gittings. Not only that - I've also written a review of it.

08/03/2003:

How could I create a Web page about my favourite bits of classical music and not include Mahler's 4th Symphony? I couldn't.

06/03/2003:

My pontifications on Paul Simon's Negotiations and Love Songs are now public. In addition, the other pop reviews have had some of their scabs of stylistic infelicity sand-blasted off. Ouch!

24/02/2003:

Pages for individual poems are now generated dynamically by a CGI script (saves me having to HTMLify them by hand). Book reviews will soon be getting the same treatment, I hope.

22/02/2003:

People have been clamouring* for the Biography book reviews page to be added. Here it is then.

* Not really.

12/02/2003:

More unstructured musings on classical music added.

11/02/2003:

The Classical Music page now exists, consisting currently of one review.

09/02/2003:

A review of Money by Martin Amis has been added.

12/01/2003:

The Music page makes its belated appearance.

05/01/2003:

A few more UK poetry magazines added.

20/12/2002:

Here's what I think of UK poetry magazines!

15/12/2002:

A review of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep added.

03/12/2002:

Another poem, Flying After Fifteen Years, added.

30/08/2002:

A review of Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden added.

29/08/2002:

Photos of Lithuania added.

12/08/2002:

More poems added.

04/08/2002:

A review of Jane Austen's Emma added.

16/06/2002:

The first batch of science reviews has just been delivered to the Book Reviews area. Get 'em while they're hot!

23/05/2002:

Dogsticks goes dynamic: a CGI script now puts a Dogsticks frame around individual photos.

15/05/2002:

Blimey! I've had another poem accepted for publication.

06/05/2002:

Dogsticks goes stateside: check out the new exhibition on the Photos page.

30/04/2002:

Dogsticks is now on a different server, and has its own domain name. World domination to follow shortly.

26/03/2002:

The Poetry page has been purged of broken links.

25/03/2002:

• Site slightly restructured.
• A review of Andy Croft's Just As Blue added.

16/03/2002:

Three more book reviews added to the increasingly unwieldy Post-1900 Fiction page.

09/03/2002:

A few more book reviews added to the Post-1900 Fiction page.

05/03/2002:

Photos of East Anglia are now on display in the Photos page.

25/02/2002:

More book reviews added to the Post-1900 Fiction and Miscellaneous Non-Fiction pages.

24/02/2002:

Pre-1900 Fiction and Miscellaneous Non-Fiction book reviews pages created.

23/01/2002:

The Photos page now has things in it!

13/01/2002:

Dogsticks up and running.

Dogsticks was created from XML source files using the fab Saxon Java XSL processor, which is free from somewhere on the Net.

Future projects include:

• Pumping the site full of pointless content.
• Creating pages dynamically using a combination of Perl and XSLT. (I have to learn Perl first so there may be a substantial wait.)