David Coveney

Maps have always fas­cin­ated me — I can stand star­ing at them for hours. Or at least, minutes. Whether it’s a small map of the area, or some­thing cov­er­ing the whole globe. There’s a few in par­tic­u­lar that stand out as inter­est­ing, partly for their polit­ical back­ground, and oth­ers for their technical […]

Cuba has, shall we say, a more relaxed approach to elec­trical safety than some other coun­tries. In part because it’s poor — good elec­trics are expens­ive — but also, I sus­pect, because of some ignor­ance and lack­a­dais­ical enforce­ment too.
But I was still sur­prised to see this shower in our first B&B:

I will say one thing, however […]

I’ve just spent far far too long doing these two illus­tra­tions. The first shows a traffic jam that’s a prob­lem, caused by people not using up all the road. The second shows what hap­pens if the two self appoin­ted guard­i­ans of the road move up a little, don’t block people, and if other […]