We had a letter from the Seychelles government which confirms more detail about my naughty great-grandfather, Alfred Rowley: He was born in Stoke-on-Trent in about 1875. Huzzah! So now trying to find the right person then will head to the library in a few days to see if I can find some census records or something.

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I’ve heard a lot about Tumblr floating round on the internet and it sounded quite interesting as a place for accumulating all one’s assorted randomness in one place. I’m not sure what the potential audience for it would be. I suspect it might be more useful as a way for me to keep an eye on how dull I’m being, but chi.mp didn’t turn out to be particularly interesting or useful and I’m still not sure what I’m going to do with that. Tumblr seems to cover more ground and results in more of a native feel when combining streams from various services, so we’ll see. http://caitlinrowley.tumblr.com.

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Very cool – very interesting: http://www.philipglass.com/glassengine/.

Apologies for not having been updating this as often as I should – I’ve been travelling near-continuously for the past few weeks and now have parents to stay from Australia, which is – of course – a joyous thing, but not conducive to getting my own creative stuff done. Having the flu is interfering too, but both will pass and I’ll be back soon – promise!

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