Yasmina had a nasty surprise today, finding out mid afternoon that she had been bleeding. She leaves work early on a Friday so luckily was already preparing to leave for home. She called me while I was still at work, and I really didn’t know what to do. Should she go to hospital in Paris, […]

The blog that can possibly claim to be the busiest on the web is a geeky tech related blog called Slashdot. You can find the latest five headlines on the right hand side (courtesy of an RSS feed and this plugin). While it is often opinionated and contains poorly written summaries more often than not, […]

This is, to me, what the Internet is all about. There’s a guide “Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Audio Equipment and Other Miscellaneous Stuff” which is really fascinating. Somebody has gone to great lengths to collate information gleaned from various sources, mostly online, to provide a useful guide to general electronic equipment repair.
I […]

There exists a flight simulator written by a rather eccentric but clearly intelligent guy, Austin Meyer. It’s called X-Plane, and it’s based on blade element theory which breaks down the plane into lots of small sections and calculates the forces on each section many times a second.
What’s most unusual about it is that it’s pretty […]

Since I got my Palm, I’ve been searching around for free material to read. You can find a lot of classics that are out of copyright, but there are also a few new books which are made freely available under the “creative commons licence“. You might think I’m crazy to read on a small PDA […]

The final Excel is here. Summaries of the stages of the tour including results are here : stages 1 to 11 and stage 12 to 21
Thanks to everyone for following the Fella’s tour 2005. I’m honoured to have come first, having expected to be in the middle of the peloton for most of the race. […]

Sorry no email last night, but got back late and didn’t have time.
It’s pretty much cut and dried in the Fella’s tour. Barring a freak result, it’s unlikely that the order will change after the time trial stage. Franco has Armstrong placed first in his team, and the 3 extra bonus points which that […]

I’m sparing many a thought for all those affected by the recent tragedies.
True freedom comes at a great price : that those who wish to abuse that freedom do just that. The police are likely to get more powers in the face of all the trouble. Liberal idealism is difficult to maintain, because the radical […]