by Tom | Dec 1, 2010 | Personal, Science
Anticrepuscular rays. Now I know what fingers of god are called. Huzzah. I’m not sure what backwards fingers of god would be called, but they are super funky.
by Tom | Dec 1, 2010 | Personal, Reading
Amazing to have seen Restrepo and read Matterhorn in the same six months. You really feel you understand what it is like to be there, even though you clearly don’t. Proper reportage: you get to have your own thoughts.
by Tom | Nov 30, 2010 | Tech
Not much known outside techies, but I have to agree with Fox, the Stuxnet worm did do a James Bond-style job in crippling Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Spinning the centrifuges too fast and stopping them abruptly so they break is genius. How many people and what...
by Tom | Nov 26, 2010 | Listen, Personal
How lovely to segue from Graham Norton to Milstein nailing the Kreutzer sonata. Superb.
by Tom | Nov 26, 2010 | IT
It was not entirely simple to get Transmission running on my QNAP TS-239 Pro II. [UPDATE: yes it was – use the QPKG version and it is a doddle. You can do some of the settings.json changes as shown below in the helpful included editor] I took most of my...
by Tom | Nov 24, 2010 | Reading
http://m.boingboing.net/2010/11/24/irish-journalisms-tr.html Image: http://craphound.com/images/197206998.jpg Not the kind of journalism we are used to…
by Tom | Nov 17, 2010 | Personal, Science
John Snow’s pump. Great story of medical research proving that cholera was waterborne, great infographic, good pub, too. I’d never connected them all, despite often seeming to go to Broadwick Street weekly.
by Tom | Nov 16, 2010 | General
Following the useful suggestions from this thread, I changed my BT router and QNap NAS settings to speed up my downloads. Disable UPnP in the router (BT Home Hub, Advanced>Application Sharing>UPnP menu) Change the torrent port on the NAS from 6881-6991 to...
by Tom | Nov 16, 2010 | Science
Great article with a silly title: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science. Quote from the hero of the piece: something to help us recast scientific research for the future: “Science is a noble endeavor, but it’s also a low-yield endeavor,†he says. “I’m not...
by Tom | Nov 16, 2010 | Business, Government
Who’s Lobbying is a useful resource to see who’s meeting which departments and for what purpose. Great use of open data and some whizzy matching tools.
