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Monday, 31 December 2012

The fastest way to send data

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Everyone thinks of super-fast optical fibres as being the best way to transfer data from one location to another.  Big organisations generat...
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Sunday, 30 December 2012

Three answers to prayer

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You might think that there are only two answers to prayers (along with of course the lack of an answer that most of us experience if we are ...
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Saturday, 29 December 2012

Surprisingly long . . .

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' Abbreviation ' is a surprisingly long word isn't it? Along the same lines, ' typewriter ' is the longest word that c...
Friday, 28 December 2012

In those days we were all British

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(Well - this applies to all the people in the British Isles of course) Seeing this silly tee-shirt and smiling at it, I can't help but...
Thursday, 27 December 2012

Full stops are rude?

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I have been hearing some surprising small hints about the teen culture in text messaging. Did you know that it is rude to finish your mess...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Being open minded

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" Be more open minded " I am sometimes told, mainly by Christians who really mean that I should try harder to agree with their par...
Tuesday, 25 December 2012

One quiet atheist . . . and Christmas cracker jokes

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I've found it best to keep quiet today, surrounded by a very pleasant family group, and outnumbered 12 to 1.  It is not that I was afrai...
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Methodist Christmas!

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Methodists are famous for disapproving - particularly of alcohol and games of chance.  So that makes it all the more amusing to find this la...
Monday, 24 December 2012

FSM in Christmas lights

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At this Facebook link , you can see an entertaining and surprising photo of some seasonal lights.  Is this the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the...
Sunday, 23 December 2012

Dr Who to the rescue

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I've been hearing rumours about how the world was saved from near certain annihilation earlier this week. Stories are circulating on the...

You haven't arrived until you have spoken

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I was (reluctantly) attending a training course a little while ago, and the trainer opened with " You haven't metaphorically arrive...
Saturday, 22 December 2012

Is this the end of the world?

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About 12 hours ago I started to ask myself, " Is this the end of the world? " And then I realised that it was just Penrith at m...
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Friday, 21 December 2012

Fallen leaves

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A pretty sight struck me one day and I captured it with that marvelous technological wizardry that is usually with me, my mobile phone. ...
Thursday, 20 December 2012

Join Avaaz and choose the campaigns that matter to you.

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Avaaz is a significantly successful campaigning organisation.  They recently sent me an e-mail which I would like to share with you.  Join A...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Bloody Post Office ... and Building Societies, and Christmas!

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I have always been a fan of UK's 'Building Societies' - in general - but in this case they have annoyed me!  In this day and age...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Science personality of the year!

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Don't laugh.  I recently had to tolerate the oxymoronic ' Sports personality of the year ' nonsense from the BBC - albeit in the...
Monday, 17 December 2012

UK census 2011 - good news!

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The statistical results are now available for the national census of the UK, taken last year.  And those results are interesting in many way...
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Sunday, 16 December 2012

The Falkirk Wheel

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This is a great bit of modern waterway engineering, designed to transport canal boats from a higher to a lower level in a single step. ...
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Saturday, 15 December 2012

Atheist Canterbury

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An atheist archbishop?
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Friday, 14 December 2012

Fusion Fuels part 5 - Tritium.

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This is part of a series examining how the fuels for a fusion reactor are likely to be obtained.  In part 1, I described the Isotopes of hyd...
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