Author: nickjones

Awesome sequence of piccies of a car been pulled out of sea…………………………….

Last night I went to Charles Ainger talk on Changing Ideas into reality. Very interesting although one suspects it went a bit over the heads of the students. Interesting for me was Torberts four part of speech see here. Also the circular concept of any action Purpose > Thinking > Action > Reflection > Purpose […]

A new version of google for searching scientific papers and abstracts

A eulogy to the European Union from a USA viewpoint and a a view I totally support. The introduction of the Euro was truly remarkable and I, for one, miss not having it in the UK plus all the legislation emanating from Brussels is much to be admired. interesting thatFord finds that its Volvo plant […]

I have to admire google and gmail. when I first got my account with them on April 27th 2004 the spam detection was poor (I diverted my geoff@cortexcontrollers.com address to my gmail – this was getting 150+ spams a day) detection was about 80% or so. However, recently the detection has improved remarkably. Now gmail […]

A good list of open source software. Just downloaded NVu seemed very fast at importing my web page and easy to use it will be interesting to see if I can get my website more pda / phone friendly.

A wonderful comment taken from here by Brian H “I saw a clip yesterday of a tank crewman saying, “It’s a historical fact that the US has never gone to war with any country that had a McDonalds!” There you go, folks: the Big Mac Defense Shield!” Or maybe it could be intepreted that the […]

Neat way of finding out nutrition content of foods. Just needs linking to the bar code now!

What a fantastic idea, the BBC releasing radio programmes in mp3 format for IPOD users etc etc see BBC – Radio 4 In Our Time – mp3 download”>here

I wonder if Billy agrees with this “The exams, that they are being “hot housed” to pass, are worthless pieces of paper; that merely assign them to, at best, stacking shelves at the local supermarket.” from here