Seven of Nine and the Illuminati
This blog post started life this summer, after the Olympics. It was a time of great celebration in Britain; after all, according to some people we'd dodged at least three bullets over the Olympic per…
Tagged: science
...and yes, I saw Jupiter!
Well, I mentioned in my last post that I was going to haul the venerable telescope out of the garage, set it up and then take a look at Jupiter. And on the 29th September I managed to do that. (For a…
It's weird what brings you back....
...to blogging. I've had a few months that should eventually give me plenty of grist to the blogging mill, but to be blunt right now much of my time is being spent writing PHP and .NET code for those …
I was right to blame it on sunspots!
Early on in my consulting career - late 1980s, early 1990s - I did a lot of work for a public sector organisation. I worked on a number of projects - this was in the days when IT consultants could st…
Too few experiments in school science
I'm a science geek - always have been, always will be. When I was a kid I had microscopes, telescopes, chemistry sets - anything that allowed me to do experiments. By the time I went to secondary sc…
Bust the brainy kids - you know it makes sense!
Although this little gem of a story happened in the US, I have no doubt that given a few more months it's likely to happen here. Well...I don't know...at least the Yanks encourage science and technol…