I’m lucky (sad / geeky) enough to have several computers at home. So when one of them packed up on the 30 Aug, I just switched to using another one and thought about fixing it when the weather cooled down a bit. I’ve just looked in that machine to see that the RAM is missing, …
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Family tree research
Earlier this year, I started researching my family tree with my sister. I was something we’d both always wanted to do, but never told the other. When we both realised we wanted to do it, we found in the incentive to actually go about it. Things are much easier when you have someone else dragging …
Whoops
Another week makes wooshing noises as it flys past, I’m a few hundred works and a metric kebabload of fluorine plasma chemistry closer to being a Doctor. I didn’t find the time to post part two of the Thames walk, a shame really, it involves pubs. I like pubs, I even like writing about them. …
A nice thought provoking post
Brent Rasmussen over at Unscrewing the Inscrutable has a great post for dealing with creationists and young earthers; two annoying, braindead, anti-science groups I’ve had dealings with in the past [1]. Ancestral Magnitudes “My grandfather wasn’t no monkey!”, “You think we came from slime?!”, and “man, if you want to believe your great^100 grandpa was …
Fenchurch Street to Limehouse – The long way. Part one: Fenchurch St to the Thames
A couple of weeks ago I took a ‘cruise’ down the Thames from Tower Bridge to Greenwhich, on the way I noticed and had pointed out many interesting things and places along the river. Saturday I decided to go explore some of those on the North bank of the Thames on foot [1]. The first …