It happened as I watched BBC News 24 showing a wobbly aerial view of the train crash in Cumbria. The screen flickered and changed to show a different report, with presenters unfamiliar to me.
A headline scrolled across the bottom of the screen: Elderly woman dies in road accident
The camera cut to a reporter standing […]
I bought a power meter recently. It’s an excellent device. You plug it into the mains power supply, then plug an electrical device into the meter and it shows you the power consumption of that device.
Using this meter, I’ve discovered that a single wash at 40°C in my washing machine uses 0.59KwH of electricity. My […]
The Hubble space telescope recently photographed a beautiful planetary nebula. The European Space Agency have taken this, and a series of other images from Hubble, and produced a wonderful video. You begin with a view of the night sky pretty much as seen from Earth, then zoom in on the tiny patch of sky where […]
Am I the only man in the UK who thinks Valentine’s Day has become a disreputable orgy of capitalist excess that’s about as romantic as being hit in the face with a wet herring?
Oh. Just me then.
Being in touch with the spirit of the times, as I am, I created an online petition at 10 Downing Street’s website (you may have heard about another, far less important, petition in the news of late). I am petitioning the Prime Minister to do something about the light pollution that fouls our night sky.
I […]