And Also…
Nothing much about design: occasional articles, information about friends and relatives, and links to other websites I find interesting.
And also Patrick's Image galleries »
Cycling Blog
I'm thinking of starting a cycling blog and am looking for cyclists (or ex-cyclists) who might like to participate. The objective would be to create a website of particular [...]
New Image Gallery
Snapshots From Australia is the title of a new image gallery (album thingy) I completed recently. The photos date from 2002 to early 2005 and were all taken with a 2002-model 3.2 megapixel Sony Cybershot [...]
Bisazza Geisha Bondage Banned
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned the Italian firm Bisazza Mosaic from using a photograph of a tied-up geisha in magazine advertising on the grounds that [...]
Bad Politics
Within the space of two days, Barack "Time for Change" Obama won the presidential election in the USA and the International Monetary Fund predicted the UK would be the worst hit [...]
Large Text Goes Fuzzy
I've noticed that something makes large text go fuzzy on LCD computer screens, at least on several that I've looked at. This is illustrated here [...]
Caroline Flint
Recently, when I asked my son if he'd come across the gorgeous Labour MP Caroline Flint, he doubted if what I'd said could be true – she's probably too old, and it's impossible for a politician to be physically attractive [...]
Suggest a Design Classic
I'm always open to suggestions for new Design Classics to add, but please give a bit of background, and reasons why it could be included. I'm interested in products – preferably a specific model whose origins can be traced [...]
W.T.Taylor & Co. Ltd
In the year 1904 W.T.Taylor (1848-1925) founded a firm in Horwich in the north of England. With 1,200 looms it was at one time the largest maker of towels in the British Empire and second in the world only to a firm in the US [...]
War Diary, 1944
My father, Kenneth Taylor (now 87), was the Signals Officer in the 6th Battalion of Green Howards, in the Allied Expeditionary Force which landed in Normandy in northern France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The Battalion was in [...]
Susan Bell
Susan Bell was my first real girlfriend. We went out together during 1963 to 65, and then split up. I saw her again about a year later when I called at her home in Lostock. I think she was going off to college. Where is she now? [...]
A Game Invention
After reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins I thought I would try to invent a game system based around the well-known Prisoners Dilemma. I also had hold of The Mathematics of Games and Gambling by Edward Packel [...]
