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 …

I was all set to fire up the free Spotify client listen to one of the suggested albums from a previous post. I was ready to accept the rather grating adverts every few tracks when I noticed the people at Spotify over a 0.99p day pass which I duly …

I didn't even know there was a BarCamp event running in Manchester until I happened across Dan's post the night before I was due to head up for a party I was attending. My previous experience with the un-conference style of organisation was limited to OggCamp which I had attended …

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 …

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 …