by Tom | Aug 8, 2008 | IT
Lots of government sites are infected. NoScript is a very blunt tool for dealing with it, but probably necessary.
by Tom | Aug 8, 2008 | Reading
Roof turbines are carbon emitters for most urban dwellers – so we don’t need them!
by Tom | Aug 8, 2008 | Reading
We did want to buy a rug in Tunisia, so the sales pitch wasn’t so directly counter to our intentions, but even so, they did most of the same things as in this great write up. My favourite counter was when they asked us to buy a second rug: I said...
by Tom | Aug 8, 2008 | Reading
Looks like The Wire was closer to the truth than you might have thought.
by Tom | Aug 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
The big picture goes solar. I like the eclipse photos only slightly more than the people photos.
by Tom | Aug 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have long had an idea for a "boy racer" that had a speaker in the cabin to play acceleration sounds, an actuator in the seat to push you in the back when you hit the accelerator and a lensed windscreen that made the road seem to go by more quickly. You...
by Tom | Aug 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
CiviCRM is a useful looking addition to Drupal. It could fix my 1) how do I chase people for payments question and 2) help Sam run Pegasus.
by Tom | Aug 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Large Hadron Collider is, as its name suggests, large. It won´t destroy the earth by creating black holes when it is switched on, but it should provide some interesting physics once it has been going for a year or two. Question: are they physicists putting...
by Tom | Jul 31, 2008 | Reading
I had no idea there was a fenced border between Lithuania and Belarus. Now I do, thanks to a typically interesting big picture.
by Tom | Jul 31, 2008 | Reading
Clever bees and dumb bears (sad).