I'm currently ensconced in Fliss' mum's house after getting up at denial a.m. to get Fliss to the station on time for the next stage in the odyssey that is fixing her knee. The winds are currently howling outside and I've already had one power cut (for about 5 …

Due to the government's failure to properly fund science (for the frankly piddling £80m shortfall) several of our high profile experiments are under threat. Considering the amount spent bailing out Northern Rock or daily on the various wars they have started you would of thought they could find the …

I have been quite quiet over the last week or so for a variety of reasons. However I can break the silence about one thing today. I have a new (new) job. In just over a weeks time I shall be working for Cambridge Broadband Networks based, funnily enough, in …

I've updated the picture on my homepage to make it a little more contemporary. Credit's for the image go to Chris Flemming who took it during the recent weekend in Scotland. It turns out to be possible to get good pictures of me :-)

I saw this on the news feeds today. It's still too early to hope for a new stable release this year. Interestingly I did some hacking on vc-git.el on Friday in an attempt to improve the annotate support. vc-git.el is now living in the emacs distribution proper but …