Academic publishers need disintermediation

Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist. Monbiot makes a valid point: all publicly-funded research should be available at a low cost or for free. The Harvard route of a major institution binding its researchers to publish to a free source sounds...

Unrar on QNap

UNRAR for QNAP 439 Pro II+. Worked for me: /opt/bin/ipkg update /opt/bin/ipkg install unrar

What is time?

What is time? Good primer on some gnarly issues in the status of time. Ten things we should know about time is a great summary of some related issues.
Off paddling

Off paddling

Nice to don Seagods red and black again and looking forward to competing in the feeder competition in two weeks for next year’s internationals. The nice afternoon helps too. As does Handel on Spotify on my phone (tunnel mobile internet rocks).