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Raving about a Mexican on Ada Lovelace Day

We weren’t supposed to be in Taunton at all. I had persuaded Gicela (the woman in technology I celebrate today – and every day) to leave Mexico, and come with me to the UK, where we had met three years before.
The plan had been to save enough to put down a deposit and first month’s rent on a [...]

Don José

I first met Don José in 1993, which is when I took the photo on the left. And this is his chair. Not just any chair; he made this one himself.
Don José is one hundred years old, or thereabouts. Nobody knows, not even Don José. His birth certificate, along with countless other documents, was destroyed by fire during [...]