Archive for July 2005
Changes to Reading 31 Jul 2005
I’ve been meaning to give the reading page a bit of an overhaul for ages and now I’ve started. I say started because it’s not finished, I would like some more options and functionality and, to be honest, the whole process needs to be easier to handle on the backend. It’s taken me an age [...]
Pi, Medium-Rare 29 Jul 2005
I like reading about computers, especially people who do strange or unusual things with them. Mathematics is also a field that fascinates me. So I was reading Jason’s entry about the Chudnovsky brothers with great interest. I headed off to The New Yorker pages to check out their articles. Absolutely fascinating, I’d like to thank [...]
Potter Update 27 Jul 2005
Apologies to anyone who visits this site and isn’t a Harry Potter fan, I will get back to other subjects soon. Anyway, I’ve been flying through (once I got so far I was hooked, I actually had to talk myself into putting it down to go to bed Monday night) and have finished the book. [...]
Potter Power 26 Jul 2005
I finally started the new Harry Potter book last weekend. Being out of the country for the actual release, you may be forgiven for thinking that I missed all the hype, but I was still keeping track of how well it was doing and how people had queued at all hours to buy it and [...]
Memory Macro 25 Jul 2005
One of the things I remember reading in one of Cory Doctorow’s short stories was about a ‘bugout’ (that’s an alien) who has a motorised exoskeleton that has macros for doing common tasks, things like opening the car door, starting the engine, that sort thing, rather than telling the motors step-by-step each time. I remember [...]
ICE 23 Jul 2005
In the wake of the attacks on London the East Anglian Ambulance Service has come up with the idea of creating an entry in your mobile phonebook called ICE, which stands for In Case of Emergency. The idea was that, should you be unconscious or whatever, emergency services can look through the phonebook, see this [...]
Misplaced Pride and Prejudice 20 Jul 2005
I like to think that we live in an enlightend and open-minded world and at a point in time when we’ve learned to embrace different views, every now and again you read something that shows that while the majority of people have common sense, some, don’t. That’s right folks, a school has been forced to [...]
Flat as a Pancake 19 Jul 2005
I’m always astounded when we take off and land on my bi-weekly trips to and from the Netherlands. Everyone knows Holland is flat, and I mean real flat, but just how flat it is cannot be described. I thought parts of the UK were flat, perhaps they are, but there’s no comparison. I did a [...]
Facilities for All 17 Jul 2005
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve thought I had run out of topics to discuss or issues to raise on this site, that’s until I heard a news story about New York passing building legislation regarding the ratio of male-to-female toilets. Referred to as ‘potty parity’ it means that any new buildings [...]
Soldiering On 15 Jul 2005
I’m beginning to feel like all I do revolves around List Books, my site for selling you second hand books. The idea was to launch it and leave it, but nothing is ever that easy. Problems and glitches need to be ironed out, things need to be improved, there are feature requests to include and [...]