The server that hosts this site as well as others of mine and those I host for friends seems to have developed a fault. A hardware fault. Seeing as this server is a virtual server from RedwoodVirtual I don’t quite see how this has happened. I’ll have to notify Redwood and arrange for them to …
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Part of the conspiracy
One disadvantage of having a working email address listed on a university physics website is that you tend to get copied into all the 11-9 and 7-7 conspiracy theory messages. People expect you to be able to explain what ‘really’ happened (i.e, agree with everything they say).
Comet McNaught in the Daganeese sky
Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) is currently visible in the low sky just after sunset – look in the direction of the setting sun about 5 minutes after the top of the sun clears the horizon. Comet McNaught caught between two houses. Taken with Tamron 70-300 mm lens at 300 mm on a Nikon D50. 1/4 …
Two years old and still no idea what I want it for
Affable-lurking is just over two years old now, it was never meant to be a blog, which is good, because it is arguably not one. One point two posts per month on average, and less than fifty comments in two years does not a successful blog make. I have one of those elsewhere, I post …
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Another end of an era
This morning at 05:30 the Open University broadcast its last TV program. I’ve fond memories of watching the programs in the mornings at the weekend when I was a kid. They are probably in no small part a reason why I ended up as a scientist. I’d been planning to write more about this, but …