I’ve spent most of the day coding and listening to a very cool live audio feed from below the Antarctic Ekström ice shelf. Its very ambient and spacey, and has really helped keep me in the zone today – just as well as I have a major release due to be pushed to our servers [...]
Well, its been a while… By way of breaking cover, and via dave Faber’s IP list, here is something rather wonderful. Its a very smart flash animation showing 150,000 years of human migration across the planet – from our origins in East-central Africa to the ‘present’ of the last few thousand years. Although I am [...]
This is a test of creating a blog entry via email from my phone.
I don’t know how I can across it (probably following a link from uk.rec.walking) but this guy has has a really great usenet signature: I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All [...]
If you read only one thing today: Words in a Time of War (Via Geoff Arnold)
Well, this post has been a long time coming. Back in November ’05 I really didn’t know whether I wanted to bother with this blog. A young family and work commitments meant that I had very little time to write the kind of longer posts that I tried after previous hiatus. Really, I found myself [...]
Is this thing still working? Hmm….
My blog is worth $0.00.How much is your blog worth? Actually, thats more than I expected.
George Monbiot writes in todays Guardian about some facinating research into correlations between the prevelence of religious belief in societies and various undesirable social outcomes. The research he cites looked at looked at eighteen democracies with similar levels of economic development, but having different levels of religious belief. It concluded: “In general, higher rates of [...]
USB ‘thumb’ (or ‘pen’) drives are one of those low-profile technological developments that you mostly don’t give much thought to; but when you do you realise just how amazing they are. Back in 1989 I bought my first 20GB hard-drive for my first PC The drive was big (perhaps a bit bigger than a video-cassette [...]
