Well the gruby counter accusations continue over a letter sent by Gordon Brown to offer condolences to a bereaved mother. For all the heat and noise it’s generating for the papers, no doubt not helping the poor mother come to terms with her grief, it’s become a proxy for a wider debate. Frankly I’m appalled [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2009
Familiarity and Contempt
I didn’t walk into the office today, instead I drove in. This was mainly because I spent a few hours at A&E this morning playing taxi driver to YABT (Yet Another Broken Toe). I’m considering asking for my money back from evolution, surely these vestiges of our tree swinging past should have evolved into nice [...]
Avoiding RSI one keypress at a time
Much as I love emacs some of the key combinations it expects of you to a) remember b) use are don’t help when your trying to ameliorate the effects of RSI. As I spend an lot of time in compilation mode the following quick win helps: (define-key compilation-mode-map (kbd “n”) ‘compilation-next-error) (define-key compilation-mode-map (kbd “p”) [...]
Bad Science
I finally finished Bad Science last night, written by the excellent Guardian science reporter Ben Goldacre. It’s a tour-de-force of rage against the combined forces of exploitative quacks, big pharma and of course the media. Throughout the book he lays down the basics of the scientific method and how it related to epidemiological research while [...]
