Newton was right

Posted on Mon 15 September 2008 in general

It seems Newton knew what he was talking about when he formulated the laws of motion. I'm not entirely sure what happened but I had just made an avoiding manoeuvre for the large truck coming through the traffic calmed pinch-point just down the main road. For some reason my front …


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Guilty Pleasures

Posted on Sun 14 September 2008 in geek • Tagged with bbc, flash, iplayer, isihac

I've finally started taking advantage of all the memory I put in this machine to indulge a guilty pleasure. Seeing as I'm only testing the next Ubuntu in my virtual machine I can install Flash on it so I can watch iPlayer. Although I'm obviously critical of the fact it …


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Rag tag bag

Posted on Thu 11 September 2008 in general • Tagged with drm

I went clay pigeon shooting last night with work. I'm not sure if the guns just had better recoil protection or if my technique is getting better but I have no bruised shoulder this morning. Anyway aside from that I have a few links to share today.

Firstly the story …


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Damp but warm

Posted on Mon 08 September 2008 in general

The weekend passed by without any great revelations. We had planned to go out for a walk on Sunday to get some fresh air but where scuppered by the approaching rain clouds. Apart from a brief trip to the supermarket we stayed in the house for the whole weekend. We …


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Best video in ages

Posted on Sat 06 September 2008 in geek

I hope everybody is suitably excited about Big Bang next week. I have to say this video has the best explanation of particle physics in the form of a phat rap track you could hope to hear.