I eschewed Michelle and Nook's Wedding Reception for spending the weekend in the company of Fliss who was visiting for the weekend. We saw Casino Royale on Friday. It was a bit bitty compared to your usual Bond fare although that may be down to the plotting required to establish …

For balance after last weeks link I should point out George Monbiot's response in the Gruniad. He's obviously done the follow up checking on the references that I was too lazy to do. He points to enough deliberate bias in the original article to discredit in my eyes. However …

I was working quite late tonight so when I got home I just made some food and slumped in front of the TV. I skipped out on the finale of Spooks this evening for BBC Four's Sci-Fi season. The first offering today was a documentary covering the early British authors …

I have still to come up with a theme but I think it's about time I hosted a new years party again. So far in the running is "The 80's" and "Rubiks Cube", the later being one were people arrive in multiple colours of clothing and have to finish the …

I spent the day at Jodrell Bank on a tour of the facility. It was all good science geek stuff with a fair dash of engineering thrown in. In computational terms they are dealing with massive amounts of data at very high speeds. The new fibre optic link that is …