Notes from a curious life.

A lesson in breast stroke – never realized importance of not moving and keeping the elbows flush with water surface – will try this later today

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 […]