I was interested to read the following article discussing the UK power generation strategies: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/20/mackay_on_carbon_free_uk/I make no secret of not seeing tidal, wind or solar generation as the be-all and end-all solution for power generation in this country. While I am very keen on seeing the low-cost solar cell ( Read more... )

Well, I made a deal with my brother for our birthday presents... HD-DVD may be dying, but if you want a cheap entry into High Definition, then £30 for the 360 drive with 3 films isn't too bad compared to Blu-Ray which seems to have got morer expensive again. So James and I are getting that. I'll get 300, V for Vendetta and Batman Begins, and he'll ( Read more... )

I'm still trying to work out whether signing the various petitions on the PM's website is a complete waste of time or not.
I definitely support some (e.g. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Workfromhome/) but generally the response is a bit of a fob-off, even where there was a nationally publicised petition that got a massive response.

I've taken to playing short sessions most evenings - put the girls to bed, have a quick game, then do the washing up, etc... some of those sessions have been just a few minutes, but all less than half an hour. And at the moment I've been doing surprisingly well. Most have turned profits of $10+ per session at $0.5/1, but the last one at $1/2 stakes ( Read more... )

I've been working on some DotNetNuke bits, creating a template, putting in some content, setting it up on the webserver and getting the database across, etc. I'm more impressed with it than Rainbow, and it makes a change to be doing web bits again, including some of the creative/design side ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7397705.stmThe government has acted surprisingly quickly in announcing a change to address the issues resulting from the 10p tax rate being dropped. I note, however, that the proposal is for this year, and just hopes that it will continue to be possible in later years. This obviously raises the question of ( Read more... )

Everyone who's been to a gig has seen it - someone decides they want to stage dive/crowd surf. Unfortunately, whether it's because they're a bit tubby, they just spend too long getting ready to jump, or the gig's not sufficiently busy that people can't easily get out the way, but when they do jump, ready to ride high on the hands (and heads) of ( Read more... )

Photos, etc to follow later, but last night our third child came into the world, at 8:08pm, weighing 8 pounds and 4 ounces. Donna and the baby seemed to be doing fine when I left at 11pm last night, and I'm shortly going in to visit, and hopefully they'll be back at my parents today

I've now got my new camera, and the pictures it takes are (unsurprisingly) so much better than anything you could take with the camara on my phone ( Read more... )

In some ways it's great to find out what's going on with friends and family who you're perhaps not seeing in person so much, or who you'd lost contact with ( Read more... )