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Monday: to The Junction, that singularly unappealing Cambridge venue, for Bellowhead who were superb. You can find them on Youtube but its not the same as watching them live. They're on UK tour now... If you're in Cambridge and that...
Posted on April 22, 2008 6:14 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last night we had the first ice-cream van of the summer around our streets. But we didn't stop it and buy one....
Posted on April 11, 2008 11:03 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
To the annual parish meeting. Thankfully I am no longer a parish councillor so am not obliged to go; but since a friend told me it was on I turned up. Of those who did, most were parish councillors, one...
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Posted on April 8, 2008 4:39 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via David Appell:...
Posted on March 20, 2008 3:42 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
At the "lookout" in Bracknell. Bracknell gets a bad press, and the center is indeed horrible, but it has nice paths for walkers and quite a decent bit of woodland. Where I saw my first ever mountain-bike unicycle. I...
Posted on March 3, 2008 4:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I appear in the Times The Top 50 Eco Blogs. The accolade is somewhat blunted by the heading "FROM DARYL HANNAH AND AL GORE TO THE SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS OF CLIMAGE CHANGE, THE VERY BEST OF THE WEB" but I...
Posted on February 27, 2008 6:21 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A vain attempt to shame me into fitness by making my times public. I may update this. 2007/12/04: 7:50 and 7:45 (?). [update] 2008/02. 2570 and 4954....
Posted on February 27, 2008 3:18 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
People love to compare Wikipedia to Open Source but guess what: bad, incorrect code doesn't compile. Bad, incorrect information on the net lives on and non-experts hardly ever notice the mistake [1], via Alice. True enough, though plenty of cr*ppy...
Posted on February 11, 2008 6:22 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm ploughing my way through the Mad Bish's Speech. As Paul notes, its turgid stuff. At least you have to give him credit for getting religion back in the headlines....
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Posted on February 9, 2008 4:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here is a test: this a definiton of X. What is X? Definition: The fulfillment of what exists potentialy insofar as it exists potentialy is X: namely, what is alterable qua alterable , alteration: of what can be increased and...
Posted on February 3, 2008 5:51 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A nice illustration of the laws of chance here....
Posted on February 1, 2008 4:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A colleague at work has parents who keep bees, and has instrumented their hives. See here for the top level, and the webcam. As well as being jolly fun, its also quite useful. Looking at the weights of the...
Posted on January 25, 2008 4:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There I was, happily listening to R4 about some nonsense about obese kids, when suddenly I'm listening to a "Dr Stoat". Good heavens. He does indeed seem to exist, it wasn't my ears, e.g. here. He's a GP, not a...
Posted on January 20, 2008 5:17 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Posted on December 31, 2007 6:06 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Reads a bit oddly, doesn't it? Yet Donno insists on this reading in her Penguin edition of the Marvell poems, instead of the more obvious "Now therefore, while the youthful hue / Sits on thy skin like morning dew". Certainly...
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Posted on December 30, 2007 5:25 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You know you're getting old when you start liking Kipling. Still, at least I'm not quoting MacDonough's Song at you. The solstice is past and the bleak days are getting longer. Unless you're south, of course. As I pass through...
Posted on December 28, 2007 5:14 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am a Dragon. I emerge from my Egg. More...
