Trying to disseminate information from the news about what’s going on at the Fukushima plant in Japan in the aftermath of their recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami is a tricky business. BBC is all about pictures of explosions and worried looking people in paper masks. Sometimes it’s interesting to have a little more detail about what trouble they may be … Read the remaining 1279 words

I write this through blurry vision having just had an injection into my eyeball. It seems I’ve been unlucky enough to be one of the few young people to have developed Macular Degeneration in my left eye. Seeing as I’m still reasonably young at 28 I decided to go for one of the fancy new unlicenced injections, my drug of … Read the remaining 110 words

Just thought I’d mention the small feeling of sorrow that I have for the loss of Arthur C Clarke, a childhood hero of mine. I’ll append an image from xkcd which I think shows this feeling a little.

I’m very excited today after winning an auction last night on eBay. I’d decided that I needed a computer as doing graphic work and generally pouring through code is hard work on this little laptop. What I needed was a mighty box, which is what I’ve now just bought. The specs on this beast are as follows; intel core2 quad … Read the remaining 71 words

Lying in bed with my thoughts I have stumbled across a problem. It looks like this: revel – lever team – meat nib – bin tip – pit real – lear made – edam desserts – stressed What are they? Now, I know that they are palindromes when placed together, what I want to know is the name of a … Read the remaining 36 words

I’d always wanted to see what an underground map would look like and the other day I remembered whilst infront of the computer. Now, the one I have below is not totally accurate insofar as exactly where the tubes are laid, but it is more so as far as the stations sit. This map was generated as part of the … Read the remaining 50 words