Dr Alan Howard

at last some decent snow and temps of -8.2 C in Brinkworth:

The Market Oracle, the influential Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting online publication, has integrated an analysis of US recent economic history with the song “American Pie” , citing my book extensively.

Tom Watson’s failure to get down in three from the centre of the 18th fairway to win his 6th Open Golf Championship today at the age of 59 must rank as one of sport’s greatest tragedies. I remember his last Open victoryin 1983 when Peter Allis described Watson’s 2-iron approach to the centre of the [...]

No surprise that Norway were run away winners on Saturday night and I would have liked Azerbaijan and the UK to have been 2nd and 3rd. The model correctly predicted the winning entry but, overall, there was a less strong correlation (r2 value 0.46 compared to 0.75 – 0.85) than in previous years between predicted placing and actual ranking. [...]

The Ordnance Survey has featured my “Sky Cam” implementation of their OpenSpace API. On my webpage you can click on a map marker to view the latest skycam image. The map is created using the Ordnance Survey OpenSpace API including the loadurl AJAX method. Zoom in on the map and you’ll see it’s a real [...]

Overnight a large number of spots have erupted over my back and lower abdomen. There are also a fair few over my scalp. Other than this disappointing development the flu-like symptoms have diminished and I feel fairly well at present and slept well – though this may be to do with the bedtime cocktail of [...]

Slightly unfortunate development as I appear to be starting with chicken pox, which is not a great illness to acquire as an adult. I became infected from my one year old daughter about 17 days ago along with my 2 year old son, who started with his illness a couple of days ago. I am [...]

I have just finished transcribing an interview with Don McLean that I recorded last week and which is mainly based on questions his fans submitted to his official website. The interview is available here and contains something of interest for most fans and casual readers including insights into Don’s favourite food and a surprising interpretation [...]

I was interviewed live on BBC Radio Berkshire this morning following an unexpected request to comment on the news that Graham Norton was replacing Terry Wogan as presenter of British television’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest. They were still determined to explore the myth that the British were hard done by in this year’s [...]

Don McLean speaks about the biography in a newspaper article and book review by Emmet Meara. Don said he decided to publish the book, “to counter the urban myths about me, and to get the full story out before someone else does.”