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.

How have I filled up 250Gb of my spare hard drive? External drives apparently do have their limits....

Today is the first slightly grotty cycling day since I started my new regime. My shoes now have a subtle brown spray encrusting them from the tow path by the river. Starting the journey was the hardest bit, but once I had got going it and started warming up it …

I think I'm Apple's side with the latest ASA ruling. The crux of the ASA's argument is that Flash and Java are part of "internet". It's dangerous because it makes a precedent that supporting these proprietary applications^* is the only way you can support the full fat internet. This is …

I've been getting a number of DVDs through my current rental deal that seem to skip and pause on my DVD player at the start. At first I thought it was scratches but it turns out there are more sinister reasons behind it. It's basically the DVD equivalent to Copy …