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February 26, 2010
Category: misc
When we all wake up by the Onion. Spam: I wrote a website for a friend who does English/German translation. This is my attempt to push it up the google rankings and maybe even get her some business: http://baumgarten-translations.com/. ScruffyDan...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:31 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2010
Category: bluetooth
Google has signed me up to their "buzz", which seems to be like facebook but with fewer people and no silly games. This link might work, or it might not. Who knows. Is it any use? I don't know. Which...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:52 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2010
Category: photo
Yet more snow. This lot only just settled; moderately thick, but turned to slush later in the day. In particular, the puddle of dirty roadside slush I feel into was cold and wet. But along the footpath it was still...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:23 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2010
Category: misc
Von S has an excellent article on adaption and mitigation (it isn't excellent because it says anything new or interesting - indeed, I'd regard it as the bleedin' obvious - but just as a fairly sane and readable restatement of...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:34 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2010
Category: fun
I was dragged screaming from work at the riducously early hour of 7:20 on friday night, by my wife, to listen to this. Being a barbarian, and knowing only that it was by Debussy, I assumed it was a concert....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 16, 2010
Category: books
Wolf Hall is a now-immensely-well-known tale of a slice of Henry VIII's reign; a period I know little about: we skimped it at school and it gets throroughly mythologised anyway. The chief hero is Cromwell (not Oliver) who is portrayed...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:20 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 14, 2010
Category: climate communication
As I was about to write up the latest smoggy stuff, I thought I'd better check out Eli in case he had written it up first. And lo, I thought, Condolences referred to the death of Christy's scientific reputation. But...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:58 AM • 100 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 12, 2010
Category: climate snarking
Every cloud has a silver lining, and it looks like Zorita is jockeying for some of the silver: the Future of IPCC apparently is to morph into one of those nice International agencies which pay so well and are...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:23 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
There is a good letter from some Dutch scientists at Open brief Nederlandse klimaatonderzoekers over IPCC en over fouten in Klimaatrapport 2007 (don't worry, its in English too). I think it does a good job of setting the recent "IPCC...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:10 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 10, 2010
Category: generic stupidity
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:33 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
