In another life I was a particle physicist, or rather I become an engineer involved in the ATLAS detector at the LHC Cern. Things change, projects carry on and I quit to blow things up with big lasers. One of the primary stated aims of the LHC is to find the Higgs particle before any …
Category Archives: General
WTF?
They paid £400,000* for this? It’s graffiti isn’t it? Couldn’t they have given Daniel Halpin (the TOX-03 guy from the tube) a small grant and got him to spray LDN-12 everywhere instead? Just as much of an eyesore, but a damn sight cheaper. * Note: This number may have been pulled from my arse, but …
Not your usual Essex birds…
The Chase Nature Reserve had an open day / fayre / fun run today. I flaked out on my resolution to run in the race this year but I went along for the fayre and to take photos. The lovely weather saw a good turnout and there were several displays from the rangers, local art …
Removing moderation
The Akismet anti-spam thing seem to be doing its job now, so I’ve turned off comment moderation for first comments. That may speed things up a bit here…
Traffic & Wantz
So yesterday Diamond Geezer posted a list of ‘blogs that link to his, affable-lurking being among those listed and close to the start of the list (alphabetical order rather than a top ten list or anything). I thought I’d investigate if this drove any traffic towards my little corner of the internet. Basically, the answer …