Monthly Archives: January 2005

Don’t be worried, folks, but I’ve been thinking about death a lot. I will die. I am not afraid of dying. I like life, right now, but I know that one day I will die and then I don’t know … Continue reading →

Illustrating the point… thanks Zeno.

To a well-known tune. Thanks to Adam Kay and Suman Biswas. Look at your skin Look at its off-white hue Look at your eyeballs too They’ve gone all yellow You came to me You thought you had the ‘flu I … Continue reading →

You know, I’ve been saying it for a long time: I think that in a few years, we’re going to think ‘terrorist’ is a bad-taste-word. A bad thing to call someone. And it is; it’s calling them the thing they … Continue reading →

It’s interesting that Michael Howard wants to stop immigration, because his parents were Romanian immigrants. It’s interesting that he wants to stop asylum applications, because his parents were Jewish and came to the UK in the late 1930s. It’s really … Continue reading →

Protesters along the route held signs saying, ”Worst President Ever,” and ”Guilty of War Crimes.” Police fired streams of water to disperse protesters gathering around the city. Water cannons at the inauguration? What happened to democracy?

I’ve been thinking about m-theory. Funny the things you do to pass the time on the Tube, isn’t it? Anyway, I was pondering today while I waited for the signalling problems on the Metropolitan line to be resolved, and then … Continue reading →

I am profoundly humbled by the pictures floating their way back to us over a beam of microwaves 1.25 billion kilometres long. I’m not an astronomer, and many astronomers seem very bad at explaining themselves. The rare ones who aren’t … Continue reading →

Oh yes! I’ve been waiting ten years for this, since the mission was first reported to me by Patrick Moore, all those years ago. It has been utterly, utterly successful. Any ESA recruiters out there? Please hire me.

Is legal in the US, apparently.

I’ve been looking at the US economy over the last ten years. Increasingly erratic cycles of boom and bust: Inflation. Sudden, harsh reductions in labour requirement (note that this is actually more serious than it looks; these figures do not … Continue reading →

Interestingly enough, we’ve been poking around the Mac mini. No, we haven’t got one yet, but we’ve managed to get hold of the schematics from the technical manual, the detailed specification and all sorts of information. This information I will … Continue reading →

According to the thinktank The Worldwatch Institute, the ‘war on terrorism’ will be a failure, at least in the sense that it will only make terrorism worse. In other news, rain is wet and the sun is quite hot. Film … Continue reading →

Go here and buy this. It is a blatant attempt to manipulate the music charts, and I for one applaud it.

Honestly, I’m just busy.

I am extremely hung over. Yesterday I went to a meet. We met in a pub near Victoria station. Thirty of us. Then we went to the Science Museum. Then we went to another pub, then all thirty of us … Continue reading →

These are my favourite things. I don’t get to feel, do or see many of them very often any more. Sitting on the sea wall in June, watching the world go past. Elite with a sense of wonder. Queen tape … Continue reading →