by Tom | Sep 13, 2010 | Personal, Science
Time lapse of the night sky above a telescope array in Chile. We got some very, very lovely night skies in Crete, but nothing quite like these. The second one demonstrates that the Magellanic clouds are visible to the naked eye. That’s my next must see in the...
by Tom | Sep 2, 2010 | Reading
Want the Cheryl look? How about Bumpits. It’s just wrong.
by Tom | Aug 31, 2010 | Reading
Lovely 27 beta slash 6. Read on.
by Tom | Aug 30, 2010 | General
My life is now complete. Thanks, Northumberland. Dunstanburgh castle and the beach in the full sun also good.
by Tom | Aug 27, 2010 | Reading
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/08/26/americans-protest-chruch-at-hiroshima/ Nice.
by Tom | Aug 27, 2010 | Personal, Reviews
The Chalet des Anglais is a little-known Oxford institution: a large wooden structure, still with no electricity, at Le Prarion near Mont Blanc. It is used by Balliol, New and University colleges (the properly old set). My friend Owen has just been there, and it...
by Tom | Aug 26, 2010 | IT
Unplugged since 07:30 and still quarter of a battery at 21:30. Reasonably heavy use, so much better than before. Modaco release 8 with Froyo and SetCPU helping to reduce battery drain through excessive processor speed.
by Tom | Aug 26, 2010 | Reviews
What a great privilege to see Mark Rylance twice in one year. La Bête was super funny, with Rylance’s thirty minute soliloquy the stand out. Unlike the god awful Misanthrope, the cast used the rhyming verse effectively and without laboring the point. All were...
by Tom | Aug 25, 2010 | General
Russia in color, a century ago is, as usual, a great Big Picture. The quality of the photos is amazing for 100-year-old colour prints. However the shots are curiously unenlightening.
by Tom | Aug 24, 2010 | Personal
xkcd: All the Girls is not far off my wedding day speech. D’oh. I did officially correct myself seven years later. (I started off my wedding speech by saying that Wiffy “was one of my favourite people”. This didn’t go down well. I thought my...
