I found this which I thought was quite clever.

Of course, it is the proverbial mexican on a bicycle, you must remember that old chestnut? Well, if you have an idle five minutes you might like to explore retrievr, a service that lets you sketch in a box and then tries to suggest flickr pictures that match it. You can also give it a picture to search, this is that mexican. Enjoy.

I remember how much I lusted afer one of these sets as a kid, and the excitement of seeing the pattern develop. This page takes you back to that time. Looking around, there are now several pages with similar code, but this was my first. Enjoy playing, have a look underneath the app for suggestions of settings to use to create different patterns.

Or at least the painting of it by Iraqi artist Alaa Siraih. I found a really great gallery in Greenwich (A&C Gallery, 115 Trafalgar Road). Trouble is, it didn’t just stop at this one, I’m still a little shell shocked. More info will follow in the coming days.

Hello everyone. As I am spectacularly famous, I shall refrain from introducing myself and instead allow you to discover the multitudinous facets of my personality as time passes. I am helped in this venture by my able student and assistant, Ham, who has his own blog. We have been working together for so long, often people find it difficult to telll the two of us apart.

What, then, has brought me to this juncture? The truth is that there are limited platforms where a ein gebildetes Schwein, un cerdo educado, an educated pig, if you will, can be fully appreciated. The blog appears to be the ideal opportunity. As they say, on the Internet, nobody knows if you are a pig.

You may expect this diary to range freely across many different topics. Those closest to my trotters will of course be prominent - food may figure from time to time. I hope you enjoy participating.