I am one person living in a one bedroomed flat, yet I still managed to find eleven different clocks to set back to GMT this morning. Eleven! The only thing I didn’t have to change was my computer. I synchronise it automatically with an NTP (network time protocol) server on the internet, so it’s always […]
This is a post about perspective. Perspective is something that it is important to maintain. You may find that reading the popular press on a regular basis can undermine your sense of perspective. However, here is a little list that may help:
There have been 61 deaths worldwide from the H5N1 strain of Avian Flu over […]
According to an article by Robert Sapolsky, your openness to new types of music dies a death at about the age of 35. Thereafter you stick to listening to the same old stuff over and over again.
To my horror, I realise that this means I only have five years left! I’d better devote some […]
I spotted a meme over on meish.org called musical musings. It entails listing the first random twenty songs to play on your mp3 player. I don’t have an mp3 player proper. But my mobile phone can handle mp3s and I have a handful of tunes tunes on the sd card. So I get to play […]
Is this not the sweetest photograph you have ever seen? Go and take a look.
The photograph came second place in the “people” category of the 2005 Visions of Science photographic awards.
Today is Thursday. Or so I am reliably informed. I’ve spent all day thinking it was Wednesday.
At five o’clock today a work colleague told me he was visiting another site tomorrow, so would see me on Monday.
“Oh,” I said, “aren’t you in on Friday then?”
He gave me a strange look and said, “tomorrow […]
One of my responsibilities at work is administering our intranet. Amongst my many other tasks, I add the weather forecast for today and tonight to the staff page - the forecast is pilfered from the BBC, but don’t tell anyone.
One day last week, the evening forecast was mysteriously missing. So I made up a […]
Ah. It looks like I was tagged several days ago to do a meme, but I’ve been tentatively poking my nose out into the scary “real world” (as it is known) these last few weeks. So I’m a bit late.
Anyway, the meme requires me to quote the fifth sentence from my 23rd post. This will […]
So the BBC is asking for the licence fee to increase by 2.3% over and above inflation for the next seven years. This extra increase is largely to pay for the planned switch-over to digital tv in the UK.
I love the BBC. Radio 4 and the World Service are excellent radio stations that have […]