I’ve been tagged by Ben to list six random things about myself. Here goes. My superpower is the ability to detect minute quantities of cucumber from large distances. It is rarely of use to anyone. I bake terrible cakes. The last book I read was The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I finished it on …
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90 and out.
Had to happen eventually, though he looked set to last forever, Clarke is no more. I first discovered the writing of Arthur C. Clarke (or as Viz once memorably renamed him, “The Arthur of Space-1999, Author See Clarke”) in the early 1990s at the local library. I started with 2010 (2001 was on loan), thoroughly …
Papers
Today, via but she’s a girl I discovered an incredibly useful piece of software – Papers. Now I’m not the most tidy person in the world anyway, but when it comes to journal articles and papers I’m hopeless. I keep my references in a bibtex database managed by Jabref, but as for managing actual electronic …
Moving servers
Moving servers – will attempt to find out where the last few posts went too. Stuff is going to be messy for a day or so.
Busy
I’ve been rather busy of late, getting funded, doing experiments, writing code for obsolete computers and building building blocks for radio systems. All the usual really. So I’ve not posted anything here. Have a cat photo to make up this. Because there are not enough cat photos on t’interweb.