I hope that you enjoy it.

I assume you took the chance to see the Valette paintings in Manchester Art Gallery. Beautiful work.

The Seascape. I live just down the road from Mottram where he retired to.

My favourite by Lowry is in the Kelvingrove.

I can’t get past the word “tapioca”.

I love numbers. They are where you find truth, but they can be abused.

At a previous employment we had a dashboard which showed which things were working (green) and which weren’t (red). Clear, immediate, useful. I had to write a script (green.bat) which we ran before management visited which made everything green. After they had gone, truth.bat returned us to reality.

Guess who’s managers have given them a new metric for their KPIs? I will never have one in the house, or anything else voice operated. Too many years in IT to trust any of them.

They keep trying to talk to me in Bigendian.

Accessing Janet using a teletype (there were glass teletypes, they were all booked out, it wasn’t that far in the past).