We went for a meal and bowling before Fliss' sister Steph sets of on her next adventure for a year in India. I haven't been ten pin bowling for some time which explained by rather ropey start in the first game (scoring a total of 1 across the first two …

We went to an interesting lecture last night at Churchill College.

There is a problem with the universe. It doesn't quite behave as we would expect it to given the amount of mass we can see in it. To account for the difference in the observed universe and the what …

Like many Emacs users I use the excellent Ubuntu Elisp PPA to get a more recent Emacs than the main distro repos package. However I'd been puzzled as to why emacs-snapshot hadn't been updated in ages. The was doubly confusing as the orebokech packages on which they are based and …

When I first converted my old blog to Wordpress I used tags for all the old categories. This was probably the wrong choice as tags present more subtle meta-data about a post. After manually updating a whole bunch of posts I discovered Wordpress already has useful "Tags->Categories" and "Categories- …

So Google are finally having second thoughts about their relationship with China. We may see then end of google.cn as a search engine that filters search results that might embarrass the authorities.

Google got a lot of stick at the time when they first created their Chinese presence. In …