Seems we’ll all be getting a slightly longer than usual holiday this year: Officials announce a leap second will be added at the end of December. The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service in Paris keeps track of time by measuring the Earth’s rotation, which varies, and by an atomic clock, which is unwavering. [...]

I hate spam in all its forms. We recently bought a new letterbox. It keeps out the wind and rain and has enough room for an A4 magazine, regular sized letters and the like. It’s not large, but it’s big enough. And using the Internet has made me more security conscious so I bought one [...]