March 31st, 2007
At the end of a long week.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m training to be a Medical Physicist, and as part of this I had to go to Coventry University to study Anatomy and Physiology.
Our tutor said that the week was going to be intensive, hellish, too hard, and boring (yes, that’s an Oxford comma: it has it’s place). We all went thinking we were going to hate it, but came out loving it. One of the best parts of this course in most of our minds.
Oh, and the photo is the leftovers from our last meal in the canteen there before going home. The tower lasted long enough. As physicists, we all know that if you get each bottle in the centre of a pizza box, the tower will hold. This is why we’re not engineers, the theory is good enough for us.
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March 23rd, 2007
This guy does! Watch this one first.
Then Part 2.
Why is it whenever it gets close to exams, there arises something so awesome that I won’t want to revise. You’ll not thank me for this, you’ll get addicted to playing it (read the hints at the bottom of the page if it gets too hard).
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March 23rd, 2007
Can somebody please tell me why I have KLINGON language support on my computer! Well, when I turned it on, no programs had a Klingon interface, but still. I think someone somewhere has way too much time on their hands. And yes, the reason I know that it says Klingon is because I used to watch Star Trek avidly, like you wouldn’t believe. I’m kinda glad those days are gone now, I still appreciate it but one day I just stopped watching. I think the sun was shining outside, so I went out.
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March 15th, 2007
I was sent this link by a friend of mine, and I have really no words to adequately describe how amazed I am. Shock, awe, and sadness don’t even come close to it. If this is really a cross-section of the average US citizen, the mind boggles. How so many people can be totally ignorant of the outside world is beyond me.
In all seriousness, I know that many Americans are smart people, but if I were one of them I’d be embarrassed at this.
View the video
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March 4th, 2007
I thought I’d like to share this with the outside world. I haven’t blogged for a while, much work has kept me busy and I hate being in front of my computer at the moment, even though its a pretty Mac. It’s a bad sign when you’ve sat in the same place typing for so long (feels like weeks) that when you stop you don’t know what to do with yourself.
Well the Chinese Government in their infinite wisdom have decided that the appropriate re-distribution of the people’s money is to paint a mountain green! I invite you to read this. My favourite part is the bewildered local forestry official saying:
“This is an order from above,” she said. “You should ask the leader from above. I don’t have any information on this.”
They just did their job. Maybe the Chinese want the American satellites operators to think they are off-setting their carbon emissions.
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February 11th, 2007
I found this thing so annoying, so I disabled it. No longer will popups appear all over this site, all hail the wordpress settings!
Anyone else who wants to, its in
Dashboard > Presentation > Extras
Rebel against stupid web 2.0 things that drive you insane!
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January 17th, 2007
School Board Folds After One Idiot Parent Objects to Global Warming Video
Please read the above. This incensed me so much that I had to write my own commentary on the subject below:
Let me make something clear from the outset, I’m a Christian. Now thats out of the way, I’m also a Physicist in academia. Do I have any porblems reconciling the two? Not really, I believe that God has given me an equiring mind and senses that are the only Earthly things I can trust. As a result, when I’m experimenting I must trust my senses, which tell me that a raidoactive isotope has the half-life it does. The amount of the isotope in my possesion now easily inferrs the amount there was in previous time; now if this isotope happens to be carbon-14, it is simple to find out how long ago my coal sample was formed. This coal used to be a tree and would have had died with a relatively standard amount of carbon-14 in it, so the amount there is now tells me how old it is, if that is greater that 14,000 years, then the world is older. It’s very simple.
Global warming is a scientifically corraborated and accepted fact, our senses show that it’s happening, and will get worse if left unchecked. When Christians argue that global warming is the manifestation of the predictions in Revelation that, as put by Frosty Hardison, ‘everything will burn up’, and therefore should be ignored, irritates me greatly. Should Christians disregard looking after our planet because we’re living in the end times? I heartily diagree for two reasons: firstly, we have no proof that we are living in the ‘end times’ as described in the Bible, Christians have continually pointed to world events as indications of this, and we are still here; secondly, I cannot believe that God, who created this Universe (in seven days or over billions of years) would want us to disregard our responsibilty to look ofter the gift he has given us. Who can possibly be so sure that we are living in the end times that they are so prepared to risk leaving a broken world for their children? The movement of Evangelical Chritians in the US, and somewhat in the UK too, would appear to show that members of the Church are so self-confident that this is a risk they are willing to take. It’s embarrasing that I may inadvertantly be lumped in with thaat crowd of small-minded, unquestioning people.
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January 9th, 2007
Well, I have to say it was a let-down. After all the rumours of upgraded Mac computers, more on the upcoming Leopard operating system and new iLife and iWork applications, the keynote at the expo in San Francisco was disappointing. Don’t get me wrong, the iPhone looks excellent, and seems to be the phone I’ve been wanting for such a long time. Finally we have one that is intuitive and simple to use, but does so much you want it to do. The touch screen is a fantastic addition, and the only way to allow a complicated phone to be operated. I don’t mind about the price of it, or the availability in the fourth-quarter of 2007 here in the UK, but I was expecting more about the Mac. The Apple TV isn’t bad too, but I would never need anything like that, especially since the rumoured TV and Movie download service from iTunes in the UK didn’t come to fruition.
For a computer company, I think many people will be disappointed at the lack of computing innovation at the expo, and the loss of ‘Computer’ from the the name ‘Apple Computer Inc.’ may, for some, hail the beginning of the end for the Mac. I’m not so pessimistic, but I would definitely be loathed to return to using Windows after 3 years of an iMac doing everything I wanted to do, and more.
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January 9th, 2007
Having recently begun to blog, I have found that trying to view all the blogs I want to see can be quite a task. I found a great free RSS reader called Vienna. Its a very simple and uncluttered interface and has its own built-in browser for viewing full articles in the app. I even managed to easily import my Google Reader feeds perfectly, without messing with settings.
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January 5th, 2007
So it turns out that Steve Job’s famous reality distortion field was at work again when he first talk about the ease of use of dashcode. From a cursory glance at it, to do anything even remotely out of the field of the templates still requires you to learn java, or is it javascript?
It is very powerful, don’t get me wrong, but as someone who cant program in the relevant languages, and has no artistic bones in his body, I was only able to create a simple widget to display the RSS feed from this blog. Many of the components are drag-and-drop, so more playing may allow me to create a widget with a field on the back that allows the entering of a feed URL, only time will tell.
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