Yes, but obviously there’s a problem with the dates in my phone, because this was clearly only five years ago and I’m still basically a teenager.

For the celebration of the life and work of Christian in 2017, I put together a little exhibit of all the storage mediums/media we had for the HT over the years – starting with 1970s reel to reel tape. In the end the data fitted onto a tiny USB stick, which I think Christian felt was anticlimactic.

It was a lucky shot, and maybe because it was so cold that’s why it was such a clear night!

Would any of these words do: ht.ac.uk/category/?id... - for a good number of them we have citations of them being used around that time!

That reminded me of the excellent post fifteen years ago about when Google Books first tried to OCR the long S and ended up, um, sucking it up: www.gilesthomas.com/2010/12/long...

Secretly wish I had asked to have a go at it myself, but I know it would have ended badly and probably with a trip to A&E

Not even a “warm altercation” over the Bishop of Lincoln trying to vote while being in inappropriately ceremonial garments can drag me back to working this afternoon