Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Parmesan cheese needs to age.

At the Hombre farm near Modena (run by the Panini family, of sticker album fame), a warehouse is full of wheels of organic Parmesan.

Two cheeses a day from 500 cows, and then two years in the store...

Modena, Italy, March 2005

Clouds on the northern Italian plains surround an outcrop of mountains.

Flying Gatwick/Bologna

March 2005

One of a batch of three Maserati MC12 racing cars currently under construction in the Maserati Racing plant.

Modena, Italy

March 2005

Banksy has been in New York, undertaking guerilla installations at four of the city's most famous museums, the Met, the Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum, and the MoMA. Disguised as a pensioner, he sneaked in and hung the art.



This modified beetle is in the Museum of Natural History.

Two pieces have been removed, but the others still remain. Sadly one of the removed pieces is a delightful homage to Warhol, in the shape of a picture of a can of Tesco's Value Tomato Soup.

Not sure how secure your browser really is?

Then pop along to the Browser Security Test, and see if you're susceptible to some of the more critical exploits. It'll test Firefox, Netscape, IE and Opera

Both my installs of Firefox and IE6 checked out OK, but the statistics show that 35.1% of browsers tested to date haven't been patched to deal with known high risk vulnerabilities.

It's worth making sure that you're OK.