Quentin Stafford-Fraser
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Status-Q: Stayin’ Alive in the 16th Century

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December 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Status-Q: CheatGPT and Alexander Pope

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December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We watched Goldfinger last night for the first time in a while. Rather enjoyable. And the opening music also gives you some useful hints on what to do if someone tempts you to enter their web of sin. I’ve probably been getting that wrong in the past.
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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You'll soon be able to order an HIV testing kit from the NHS app.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/trailblazing-scheme-to-reconnect-thousands-with-hiv-treatment
Should hopefully help end HIV transmissions in England by 2030.
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Status-Q: Making our home network even more secure?

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December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Status-Q: Doesn’t quite fit at the Fitz….

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December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Shakespeare In Love is my favourite film. Arcadia is one of my favourite plays - certainly my favourite modern one.
Tom Stoppard, you will be greatly missed.
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
As we approach the Christmas season, can we all take a moment to remind ourselves that 'gift' is a noun and not a verb?
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Status-Q: Fake (AI) News

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October 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Tomorrow is St Crispin's Day.

If you know, you know.
October 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Status-Q: Reverting to the mean

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October 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
iPad owners - there are some nice new features in iPadOS 26, but it's also the buggiest release I've ever installed, so if you haven't upgraded yet, I recommend holding off until a few more patches have been released.
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This in FT this morning 👇
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Status-Q: Not so grim up north

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October 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Status-Q: Freedom of the press

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September 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Status-Q: Where the rubber meets the road…

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September 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I recently uploaded a batch of new videos to my YouTube channel, and since then, the algorithm has been recommending them to me as possible viewing each morning!
Does this mean it’s rubbish, or does it mean it understands my preferences perfectly? :-)
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Status-Q: Up North and Down South

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September 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Read this story and then answer the question below.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are you now humming "Climb every mountain", or "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" ?
Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
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September 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Status Q: It's not too late to avoid paying for AI...

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September 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Status-Q: Misrepresentation

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September 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Well, some of my books are in the list here, so off I went to www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com and filled in my details.

There's been some commentary about how $3k per book is paltry and cheap, which it is for full-time authors. But it's not bad for technical books from a while ago, I think.
September 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What? How did I go for nearly a year without knowing that a blu-ray collection of Blake's 7 had been released? With restored video, new special effects, lots of extra material? I've ordered it, of course! (Series 2 apparently due for release in a couple of months.)
September 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM