Archive for July 2006
Predator’s Gold 24 Jul 2006
Predator’s Gold is the sequel to Mortal Engines (read my review here), set no long after the events of the first book, it follows the two heroes: Tom and Hester. It’s not a briskly written as the first book (as can be seen the extra page length), but Reeve’s excellent characters, interesting universe, fantastic ideas, [...]
Freakonomics 22 Jul 2006
I love statistics, it always amazes me what you can find out it you have enough data. Pulling meaning from a pile of answers and numbers fascinates me. I’ve always had an idea to look into the statistics of which sex is the safer driver. General thinking is that women are, which is why they [...]
New Hardware Setup 19 Jul 2006
I’ve been splashing out on some new hardware to help get me away from my desk. I have a laptop as my main machine, but’s plugged into so many external devices that it’s become stationary, because I can’t be bothered fighting the cables, rearing like snakes to try and entangle me (although the benefit of [...]
The New Look 17 Jul 2006
It’s that time again, the re-design is upon us. It’s not entirely finished and I’m not 100% happy, but it was well past due, so as version four fades into memory, I unleash version 5 of The Digerati Peninsula. I’ve been wanting to change it for some time, since about January, but the time it [...]
Firefox Tip 12 Jul 2006
As this is so unbelievably easy, and made such a huge difference, I thought I’d write it down in case it vanishes from elsewhere and someone else is suffering the problem. The Problem Every time I tried to download in firefox it would take an ice age to even start the download, completely locking it [...]
Life Skills 4 Jul 2006
When you’re in school, they aim to teach you a basic level of education designed to provide you with the skills you’ll need in later life. Well, I can honestly say, they got it wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever used Tan and Cosine in a calculation since I left school. I’ve used πr2 to [...]
BBC World Cup Photos 2 Jul 2006
It seems the BBC has its own Flickr group for World Cup Photos.