Just taken delivery and fired up my new iMac. Wonderful. I bought my first AppleMac in 1985.

Have booked cruise to Norfolk Fjords. Holland America Ryndam, from which we viewed the Total Eclipse Sun 1998 Caribbean

Wine! Just ordered Rhone and Languedoc 2010 reds en primeur for delivery in 2013. Never done this before. In 2014 I'll give you a report

Just booked Holland-America Ryndam for a nice no-fly cruise to Norway fjords.

Kepler results today a big wow! I'm about to file news for Reuters on this one

Getting three more books ready for press, to add to the two I have in press, plus developing lots of talks for public and cruise lectures

History of cosmology from Plato to Einstein

Yesterday I gave an invited lecture in Lincoln at an international symposium of Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253) My topic was "Geometry and Cosmology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages", and the theme was that geometry is intertwined with cosmology in models of the universe. Anyone can download my ppt presentation and lecture script. Go to this webpage http://bit.ly/Ta1k5 and click through the links. It's free, no catch