November 30th, 2005
I had another 6-month checkup today after my TC in 2003. Physical examination was clear, results of ultrasound done a few months ago were reviewed. They were clear. I also had a chest x-ray taken for a clinician to review for any signs of remission. If that is clear, and I expect it will be, [...]
November 27th, 2005
From the excellent Rocketboom site. A replacement for Santa. Chris Christmas Rodriquez. View his take on Christmas giving here.
November 27th, 2005
Thesis: happiness is carried by a fundamental particle, hereby known as the hapiton. When there are lots in your vicinity you are happy. When they are scarce you are sad. Hapitons can be made to cluster around you by consuming alcohol, talking with friends, eating good food, listening to music etc. Listening to Intelligent designer [...]
November 22nd, 2005
Doing Windows based IT pays my bills. There are several dead forests worth of books on Microsoft software, and other IT topics, published every year. The list below contains what I consider to be my current essential IT books, with links to Amazon UK. If you have a favorite IT book feel free to post [...]
November 18th, 2005
This is encouraging. A poll by the BBC on religion for BBC News 24′s “faith day” (WTF does News 24 need to have a “faith day” for anyway?) shows that there are more people in the 18-24 age group that say that have no faith (43%) over those who profess to be Christian (41%). Older [...]
November 14th, 2005
That they’re printed on. I’ve never got the point of page long, or longer, reviews of music. What’s the point of reading about somebody else’s take on a particular album or track. If they like it it doesn’t mean that you will. if they hate it it doesn’t mean that you won’t like it. I’ve [...]
November 13th, 2005
The Sun has just set here in Belfast. Some excellent colours in the sky. See pictures below. Click on the pictures to see a larger version.
November 13th, 2005
See attached picture. Play counts from iTunes for A Sky of Honey. Of course this doesn’t include the CD being listened to in the car. Click picture for a larger version.
November 11th, 2005
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Periodic Table the BBC have a series of fifteen minute programs presented by Chris Addison. You can listen to them online here.
November 10th, 2005
Still listening to this more or less all the time, depending on what I’m doing. I’ve made a concession to the office. Parts of it elicit pure emotional responses from me. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up, I get goose bumps and am moved to tears in various passages. Amazing. Isn’t [...]
November 10th, 2005
Video bloging is the new thing. Rocketboom is brilliant. BusinessWeek has a story about it. The one year anniversary show is a must see. An excellent MacOS X application for tracking and viewing vblogs is DTV.
November 9th, 2005
Road accident. Many casualties… Click for larger view if you think you can take it
November 9th, 2005
The Kansas board of education voted 6-4 today to adopt rewritten science proposals that mandate kids in Kansas are taught lies about how life on Earth evolves. Evolution is a fact. If that pisses off some fundamentalist christians whose faith is so weak that they can’t accept reality then tough. More details at pharyngula.org. In [...]