This is the website of David Jones. You’ll find links and clippings, occasional notes and longer writing about travel, software and IT generally, history, art, literature, and anything else that sparks my interest. I’m currently rebuilding the site and I’ll be bringing back a bunch of old blog posts over the next few weeks.
See the About Page for information about the design principles behind this site and for information about me, social media links, and contact details.
Recent writing
Latest Links
The Forme of Cury an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes
Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment - when the “signal” a person is searching for becomes rare, the person naturally responds by broadening his or her definition of the signal
An encyclopedia of European things
Haecceity or ’thisness'
The Bibites by The Bibites An attempt at creating real digital life
The film, ‘Danton’ one of those I caught by chance on TV and couldn’t stop watching. Depardieu as Danton
Charles, not Ada A well-intenioned untruth but an untruth nonetheless. May write about this
The supposed destruction of classical temples and documents by Christians is a simplistic myth
A few old short essays
My translation of the Tang-era poem, Seeing off Yuan the Second on a Mission to Anxi
Get rich quick with the Banach-Tarski Paradox