Not quite sure what the lower half of Europe has against milk, but there seems to be a concerted effort to marginalise or banish milk from anywhere obvious. Even tracking down UHT milk is a bit of a tough task with it usually stuffed somewhere between the scouring pads and the drain cleaner (maybe that [...]
Britannica 2.0.. Wikipedia killer?
Jan 22nd, 2009
VERY interesting development: Britannica to start allowing community contributions: Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0 . I’ve been wondering how long before Encyclopaedia Britannica reaches out to widen their offering to compete with the massive volume (although no where near as high a quality as Britannica) of wikipedia. That said, wikipedia has significant issues [...]
Yet another idiot cleric who was given the chance to show how enlightened he is with respect to respect for women. Raping your wife? Can’t happen! Is she a bit out of line: slap her into line. Queue the standard responses from leaders.
Thoughts from a field in Spain under the night sky about magician deities and science.
My first attempt at a video mini-documentary kinda thing of my most recent tour. I’m kinda proud of it, think it was a fun project. Tried to mix it up a bit, make it a bit more interesting than 10 minutes of riding down a free-way.
Explaining IT geeks for normal people: naming stuff
Jan 21st, 2009
Programmers are strange people. Programmers (coders) know it although tend to be fairly normal in lots of ways (they play sports, drink beer go snowboarding and watch TV like other mortals). Unlike other people though they have a suitable outlet for their obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD)/anal retentive tendencies and thus can embrace it without anyone knowing about it.
The clean coal fantasy
Jan 17th, 2009
I’m continually amazed at just how often you can hear the term “clean coal” (“carbon sequestration”, “carbon capture and store”) come out of the political arena. I don’t think I can recall another as yet non-existent technology that so much was being assumed will be developed and solve all our problems. The energy industry version of snail oil (perhaps “snake gas”, “snake sequestration” would be more appropriate).
