I’ve been looking for a new laptop. I’ve had my current one for about five years and it’s looking a bit long in the tooth. It struggles to keep up with the demands of any newish operating system. I’m currently working near the Moorgate branch of PC World so I decided to go in there… Continue reading Shopping at PC World
Author: Dave Cross
Balham Photos
I’m subscribed to an RSS feed which shows me any new photos on Flickr that are tagged with balham. Mostly I just get too many photos of people getting pissed at various parties, but occasionally it throws up real treasures. This photo appeared a few days ago, along with a few similar ones. And I’ve… Continue reading Balham Photos
Reasons Not To Use Flash
It’s been a while since I posted one of my “basic guide to the internet” articles (sorry, I’ve been a bit busy – new job and all that), but whilst you’re waiting for the next one here’s a good article by Nik about why you shouldn’t implement a web site purely in Flash. I think… Continue reading Reasons Not To Use Flash
Steve Jones at the Royal Academy
I found a couple of reports of this week’s evolution lecture. Firstly a write-up from a blogger who was lucky enough to get in and secondly a review at The Register. The Register also gives a link to a statement issued by the Royal Society about evolution, creationism and intelligent design. Science has proved enormously… Continue reading Steve Jones at the Royal Academy
Faith Schools
To celebrate easter, Comment is Free gives you both sides of the faith schools argument today. So you get Polly Toynbee talking sense: But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches’ bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government – yes, a Labour government – is… Continue reading Faith Schools
DRM is Killing Music
Well, at least, it is according to the keyboard player of Counting Crows: The public should support all “digital rights management software” because, in the end, it means that more movies will be produced, and they will be of better quality. Copy protection is fair and it’s right and it’s good for art, for artists… Continue reading DRM is Killing Music
Filtering Spam
A few months ago I changed the way my email server works. Instead of using POP3 to download the mail and then filtering it on the client side using procmail, I configured the system to filter the mail on the server side so that I could read mail using IMAP. At some point during that… Continue reading Filtering Spam
Space Anniversaries
It’s a good day for space anniversaries. On April 12th 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space. Twenty years later Columbia took off on the first space shuttle flight.
Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right
I failed to get in to Steve Jones’s lecture at the Royal Society last night. Unfortunately, I didn’t fail to get in until I had been standing in the rain for over half an hour. Apparently there was room for 500 people in the hall and I estimate that at least 200 were turned away.… Continue reading Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right
Trackback
Over the last few days, this server has come under attack from spammer scum trying to leave fake trackbacks that point to their nasty little web sites in order to increase their Google ranking. It doesn’t work of course. No trackback gets posted to this blog until I’ve approved it. But they don’t care about… Continue reading Trackback