4-4-0

This evening I happened upon episode 1 of Trains That Changed The World on Yesterday TV, the show which has Steve Davies in it. This was the episode I missed the first time around, so I am very happy about this. For the first half of the show, we were in Britain, covering the Stephensons … Continue reading 4-4-0

An architectural contrast

I am fond of writing from time to time, about how people with important jobs to do who spend too much time fretting about mere architecture are liable to take their eyes off the ball. What are we trying to do? This question can get lost when you decide to build, and then move into, … Continue reading An architectural contrast

A flash photo of Stephen Davies

I just spent all my blogging time on another Samizdata posting, about Stephen Davies, the historian, who works for the Institute of Economic Affairs. I included this photo in that posting: I took this photo with my very first digital camera, a Minolta Dimage EX. I chose this camera because it offered the strange – … Continue reading A flash photo of Stephen Davies