Posted on Thu 17 March 2011 in geek • Tagged with astronomy, cox, physics, science
Fliss is fairly convinced I have a man crush on Brian Cox. If I have it's because it is nice to have a telegenic scientist on our TV screens who is obviously so excited by the science he wants to share it with his audience. Last week's Wonders left me …
Posted on Wed 16 March 2011 in general • Tagged with geopolitics, iraq, libya
Colonel Gaddafi must think he's the luckiest dictator in the world. While operating under the imperfect spotlight of the worlds media last week he's now busy crushing the rebellion in Libya while the worlds attention is divided by events the other side of the world. Meanwhile the legacy of the …
Posted on Mon 14 March 2011 in geek • Tagged with earthquake, japan, nuclear, science
Let me start by saying that I in no way want to minimise the horror the Japanese have been going through. By any standard the recent earthquake has a big one. Despite their advanced technology and modern 21st century infrastructure there isn't a lot more they could have done to …
Posted on Mon 14 March 2011 in general • Tagged with life, personal
The weekend was overshadowed by saying goodbye to my Nana on Friday. She was the last of my grandparents to go after reaching the grand old age of 95. Right up to end she maintained her sharp wit and sense of fun. The service was a nice humanist celebration of …
It's been a while so I thought I'd push out a new version of Edit with Emacsto the interwebs. Unfortunately I wasn't able to wrangle the edit-server.el to reliably handle keeping the current frame open for iterative editing. For now this feature is only available via the python …