Three months since an entry – clearly [minus one point - Ed] another busy term in Cambridge has gone by. It’s been somewhat different to previous ones; living in an actual house has proved remarkably easy to transition to. I suspect a lot of that is based on the fact that, by chance, our natural [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few weeks, you know that yesterday the Large Hadron Collider went online, much to the joy of physicists everywhere. It will clear up a bunch of questions about the Standard Model and, more happily for me, it might confirm the theoretical existence of skittens. It also [...]
It seems like it’s a bad time to be a fan of anything I like. In quick succession we’ve had Nizlopi announce they’re not touring next year, one of the Barenaked Ladies get busted for drugs, another narrowly escape death and now Jasper Fforde, quite possibly my all time favourite author, is going to have [...]
It’s funny how two radically different times between first and second, in the context of races, can both be so newsworthy. Between Michael Phelps getting his seventh gold of the games by a mere 100th of a second, and Usain Bolt absolutely destroying the competition in the 100m sprint by 0.2s (without even trying, and [...]
It’s been a mixed week. Work has been frustrating, in that nothing that I’ve built or made works quite how I want it to, so I’m layering bodge job upon compromise upon approximation. If I have got anything remotely resembling science out at the end of next week, it’s going to be a small miracle. [...]
I tragically broke my Sony DSC-P200 camera just before May Week this year (meaning that I only have limited May Week photos – but they are great). Having suffered drops, hits, crushes and everything I’d been able to throw at it (or throw it at), it finally bit the bullet when it fell out of [...]
I went to a talk by Cory Doctorow last night on the Information Economy, and it was incredibly interesting. He made a number of points that, while not terribly complex, I’d not heard presented in such a succinct manner before. For example, he noted that while the internet is very good at being a large [...]
I’m getting things across to WordPress okay. I’ve still got the auctions to move across (not sure how to do that cleanly – I might just leave them in their own table of the database), and I’ve got a couple of ideas for new pages that I’ve had for a while. By my estimation, one [...]
I’m moving my site from an engine of my own (poor) design to WordPress. I’m keeping the same theme and everything though, but it might take a while for me to port everything across. A mostly-working copy of the old site is at http://area.hostingposts.com/oldsite/ on the slim chance that anyone cares.