You have to feel sorry for the electorate in Mid Bedfordshire. When they elected Nadine Dorries in 2005, I’m sure they couldn’t have know what a huge mistake they had made. You might recall how she accused Ben Goldacre of publishing parliamentary secrets. When Goldacre pointed out that the facts he had published were in… Continue reading Nadine Dorries is Confused Again
The Return of Doctor Who
As is becoming traditional (well, this is at least the second year I’ve done it) at this time of the year, it’s interesting to look around for hints about when the new series of Doctor Who will launch. Normally it’s about Easter, but Easter is about as early as it gets this year – and… Continue reading The Return of Doctor Who
Arthur C Clarke
I’m convinced that if it wasn’t for Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, then I wouldn’t read anywhere near as much as I do. It was through spending my childhood reading those authors (and others like them – but mostly those three) that I developed my love of reading. Oh, I admit that… Continue reading Arthur C Clarke
More Planets
Over the weekend I found time to rebuild the rest of my missing planets. I’ve resurrected Planet Balham (Atom), Planet Westminster (Atom) and Planet Doctor Who (Atom). They all have Atom feeds available as well. This has been an interesting test of Perlanet (my simple planet-building program). When building planet davorg, I was only using… Continue reading More Planets
Rebuilding Planets
A few months ago I moved this site to another server. At that point all of the “planets” that I was hosting on theplanetarium.org stopped working too because the software that I was using to build them wasn’t installed on the new server. And installing it was going to be a bit of a nightmare.… Continue reading Rebuilding Planets
links for 2008-03-10
Jack the Ripper Walk – a photoset on Flickr Photos from an unofficial Jack the Ripper walk. I’m considering orgnaising something like this myself later this year. (tags: london walking jacktheripper flickr photos) GooSync Home Page Synchronise your phone calendar with Google calendar. Why didn’t I know about this? (tags: google calendar sync mobile phone)… Continue reading links for 2008-03-10
links for 2008-03-08
MathMiracle.com – Witness a Miracle Conclusive proof (apparently) that god exists. It’s all nonsense of course. (tags: religion idiocy numerology)
H2G2 Anniversary
Tomorrow is the thirtieth anniversary of the first broadcast of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This makes me feel more than a little old. I didn’t listen to the first episode but, having heard about it from friends at school, I started listening from episode two. The BBC web site has decided to commemorate… Continue reading H2G2 Anniversary
links for 2008-03-07
chaff:: feeding the daemons Paul talks about an issue that I’ve been thinking about recently. When you are generating multiple RSS feeds, how do you deal with the overlap between feeds? Or users who only want to see particular types of post? (tags: husk, blech, rss) One Year to Midnight (Watchmen) Pictures of the Comedian,… Continue reading links for 2008-03-07
Rip It Up And Start Again
Yesterday I mentioned that I had recently read Rip It Up And Start Again by Simon Reynolds. It was a really interesting read, but (at least in part) not for the reasons I expected. It was interesting because it was full of bands that I had never listened to and had always meant to. This… Continue reading Rip It Up And Start Again