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The Oddity of the Pre-facto Quotation
October 6, 2010
I spend less time than ever these days reading about politics, not that I ever had a great interest to begin with, but I happen across the odd news report from Blighty now and again, just to stay knowledgeable throughout my exile from the Kingdom. I don’t know quite how long this particularly oddity that […]
Reading List II
September 27, 2010
Once again, clearing up some enjoyable reading of the past few months: Books Thomas Paine. Rights of Man. One of the original libertarians, a term that has pretty much lost its original meaning these days. The core ideas that came forth from his work, radical at the time, are simple. That rights are inherent in […]
We Have a Winner
September 1, 2010
Not many votes (about 20 or so at time of reading), but Google App Engine seems to be a big favourite for Eclipse users, gathering half the votes by itself. Looks like I have some reading up on Google App Engine to do…
Poll: Your favourite web application hosts/technology when using Eclipse
August 30, 2010
I’m embarking on a pet project, in short: a Python-based web application using my favourite editor, Eclipse. Being quite new to this, I thought I would poll my readers, especially those Eclipse web app developers among you, for their opinions on the best solutions. I realise I’m giving very few details, but I simply want […]
Reading List
May 3, 2010
Some books/articles/websites etc. that I have enjoyed reading in the last few months (just to prove my interests do occasionally stretch beyond computers) and which I can recommend: Books Letters to a Young Contrarian (Christopher Hitchens). Just seeing the title of this book was enough by itself to compel me to buy it; memories of […]
Libel Reform and Quickie Research on Online Politics
April 9, 2010
For a mere £200,000, Simon Singh has won the right to free speech. He has won an appeal against the libel action brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association, when Singh pointed out the lack of evidence for their claims. Instead of honouring his right to commit his thoughts to writing and simply countering […]
How to Support English Libel Law Reform
February 12, 2010
Over on Richard Dawkins’s website a recent post contains the latest information from Simon Singh’s brave legal battle against medieval English libel laws (http://richarddawkins.net/articles/5069). He is currently being sued by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) for daring to suggest that the evidence is far from sufficient to back up their claims that chiropractic can cure […]
“Good morning ladies and gentlemen, this is your programmer speaking…”
February 4, 2010
I came across this photo of a modern aeroplane cockpit. It seems that increasingly pilots don’t so much fly any more, rather they operate a computer (notice the keyboard and joystick where there used to a yoke). But where there’s a computer, there’s software; where there’s software, there’s programmers, and modern aircraft have no shortage […]
A Glimpse of the Academic Future?
January 22, 2010
Is this the future of how academic publications will be evaluated in the future? http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/ A technical solution powered by open access and spontaneous collaborative efforts, which reduces the focus from the containing journal/proceedings down to the more important thing: the article itself. Could this approach even remove the need for a journal in the […]
November 3, 2010
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