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Having attended many talks about chance and randomness it is still amazing when certain chance events occur. When Sally and I were walking the Camino Via de la Plata from Seville a few weeks ago we bumped into two German lads, Manuel & Michael. Manuel was walking all the way to Santiago and in fact […]
Interesting talk by Andy Hopper tonight on Computing the future. I especially liked his comments on setting projects for his PhD students. they have to be more advanced than what Google or Microsoft are doing but not totally science fiction stuff – A hard job these days I reckon. Other interesting points was that 2-3% […]
After my post bemoaning the fact that the only way I had of importing trails from the Garmin Legend HCx on the iMac was through using Parallels and the Garmin software (PC only!). Euan pointed me in the direction of Ascent for the iMac which can take in data from the Garmin and is Mac […]
Today’s 13.3mile walk was with the Southern Norfolk walkers group. The 61st event led by Paul! Twenty of us joined him on this event. The weather stayed dry but overcast. Santon Downham Walk Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging To import the trail I tried using the Ascent software as suggested by Euan, However, I […]
What’s the point of Economics was tonight’s talk in the new Cambridge University Festival of Ideas series, a trioka of economists pontificated on the subject. Evan Davis was first on, causing a small cry of dissent from the packed lecture theatre when he suggested that somehow economists should be treated like seismologists that is seismologists […]
Another great short walk of 13miles , this time ably led by Chris of Newmarket Ramblers. Here is the track with photographs:- Newmarket Ramblers – Stetchworth Walk Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging For anyone interested I’m using the Garmin Etrex Legend HCx. Reading the track stored on the Garmins datacard by using its USB […]
A few notes from my walk around Cambridge today. The guy I know who runs a tiling warehouse store (I was his first customer 15 years ago) said the bottom just fell out of his market 3 weeks ago. He is a loyal Barclays customer with a 40K overdraft, without warning or for any reason […]
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Last nights lecture here in Cambridge was given by the redoubtable Peter Wothers, a superb talker & experimentalist, Its title was “Gods, Devils and Alcohol – Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature” a sub title might be “With reference to shampoo ingredients accompanied with assorted explosions and fiery happenings”. The lecture theatre was totally packed, Peter […]
In the beautifully illustrated tear down of the new MacBook at iFixit there is the discovery that the new MacBook contains an astounding 96 screws of which 56 hold down the keyboard. It must be an assemblers / BOM nightmare with 13 different types of screw mentioned in the break down. Plus it must add […]