China gets more scary

China has to come to a halt or find some serious new technology (which Lovelock doesn’t think will be possible):To put it another way, China now seems likely to need as much energy in2010 as it thought it would need in 2020 under the most...

Lightroom

I’ll need to learn to use Lightroom just to get through our 2,500 safari photos.

iPod?

The iRiver has finally died, or feels like it. Time to work out where to go next. There are lots of buying guides for alternatives. Question is a smaller lighter flash player the way to go?So it looks like a toss up between the gen 5.5 iPod or the Creative Zen...

Missed meteors and cool cloud

Two APOD things of note:We missed the Perseids this year – partly by being in the southern hemisphere (just) and partly by having a cloudy night. Roll on next year.Perseid stormAmazing picture of a cloud (maybe) caused by a sonic boom.Sonic boom cloud