Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Many years ago, when I was doing astronomy, I used to work with Michael Merrifield. Recently I discovered he is now in the art business. The picture on the left is of his map of the universe sculpture. Michael uses a laser to engrave data from astronomical surveys into a ...
Tags: Trivia
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
So I'm on vacation but the blog posts will keep on trundling along. This leaves the somewhat strange possibility that I died in a horrible auto wreck with a moose on the Trans-Canada Highway (not to be confused with the Trans-Canadian Water Slide). But to all intents I'm still alive ...
Tags: Travel, Trivia
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
This has nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with software...
The Susan and I have been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica (BsG) season three recently. She bought it for my birthday and we've been working our way through it. In BsG the pilots call each other by their callsigns; ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I've been playing with Twitter for the last couple of weeks. All in all it's been pretty interesting. I've synced up with a few people I've not seen in a long time and learnt a few things along the way. I've also had to trawl through a lot of... crap.
Tweets ...
Tags: Social networks, Trivia, Twitter
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Tonight I went to Guy Awford's restaurant, Inside in Greenwich. I've known Guy a long time, since we were very, very young. So when I'm in the UK, which isn't often, I feel I should drop in and check out the latest menu. Guy's been making a go of Inside ...
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