...via a little file hosting sleight of hand, to 100Mb ( Read more... )

Criticising anyone for their choice of blogging topics carries an inevitable risk factor, since the familiar introductory line "I thought this might interest some of you..." almost begs the often unspoken response, "Well you thought wrong!" Similarly, even in the slightly peculiar Magic Kingdom of LiveJournal, where the unscientific application of ( Read more... )

Is this the best technical bug report ever? Re: the Stellarium application:

"The ecliptic line is drawn as if the observer location is always on Earth,
even if the observer is on another planet. Example: goto Uranus. turn on ecliptic, look at sun. The sun should
always be on the ecliptic line, but it is not as seen from Uranus." - Matthew Gates ( Read more... )

Good afternoon, peeps.

Apart from the fact that I thought The Dark Knight was bloated, overlong, and hyped to death (thanks largely to the demise of one of its stars), it's entirely possible that I'm missing something about the current occupant of the Batmobile ( Read more... )

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Excellent semi-retrospective piece by Peter Wood on the subject:

http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=633

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Edit: I'm a little disappointed by the inevitable sockpuppet-hunters with regard to this post ( Read more... )

"England's Schools Minister, Jim Knight, has urged pupils to pay more attention to proof reading their work - admitting his own blog was strewn with errors.

These included: receieved, maintainence, convicned, curently, similiar, foce, pernsioners, reccess and archeaological.

Some of his sentences also had words missing or were otherwise mangled." ( Read more... )

With an underlying theme of having a bit of a sore bottom, and just a whisper of intellectual property theft, young Mister Hodson has finally blown his cover of sanity by suggesting that blogging is a 'profession':

"So to all you new bloggers and those working their way up the ranks the next time you think you have an original idea or thought don’ ( Read more... )

Some people's lives are fascinating, but no one under the age of 70 should ever have the time to write an autobiography, as it would unduly impinge upon their ability to continue to lead a fascinating life.

It's a great rule, with loads of exceptions and, having met Howard Marks on a couple of occasions (namedrop, namedrop), even the exceptions ( Read more... )

Colin seems impressed, but having the late Bruce Lee appear to endorse anything (never mind a bloomin' mobile telephone) post mortem strikes me as...

Well...

A bit sick, actually.


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