I tend to subscribe to the above truism (ie: 'if x then y always happens' is the best kind of scientific demonstration). However, sometimes there is just not enough data. As a result I have a statistical challenge (cross posted to facebook) that I hope my more statistically skilled friends might be able to answer ( Read more... )

Since I know there are Facebook friends who like a bit of Tom Lehrer, I thought I would flag up the performance of slightly updated Tom Lehrer songs by Adam Kay. Adam Kay is the lead singer of Amateur Transplants, who wrote/performed the London Underground song, as well as a bunch of comic medical numbers. cuthbertcross and I are going on the Wednesday, (' ( Read more... )

For those who get all their science news from the mainstream media (esp BBC) here is a meta analysis of interweb science reporting and a follow-up blog explaining some of the weirdness and lacks of current BBC webstories.

Don't miss out on the meta comments too.

Aaaaarr!!
And I think the schedulers on channel 5 know what day it is too, as there is a highly piratical theme to this morning's Milkshake too.

Today cuthbertcross received her christmas present from my Dad in Canada. It was posted on 7th November. A letter I sent to the US in January (first class airmail) took something like 10 says to get there.

I know Royal mail is slow, but the North American postal system is a shocker!!

In other news, programming is clearly a doddle!

I was just pointed at possibly the best Amazon book review ever, for a self-help book called The Secret, which advocates visualising what you want so that it will come to you.

go to http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60/ref=

Is it just me being Mac centric, or are the new Windows (whatever that is) "I'm A PC" ads (at least in print form) a massive bullet in the foot by Microsoft?

Apart from repeating the phrase from the much better Mac adverts, all it needs is a slight slip of the eye to transform I'M A PC into I M A C which is surely not the intention.

Just back from a conference in Guangzhou in China (2 hours from Hong Kong by train), a little disappointed at the rather limited exposure to Chinese culture that it gave me ( Read more... )

I have a bright new shiny (Macbook). In order to interact with the rest of the world, I want to be able to dual boot it to Windows. So does anyone have any spare XP intallations they'd be willing to give me? Since clearly, everyone's upgraded to Vista by now. Haven't they?

A couple of weeks ago, we had a fun thunder storm (although not as good as the one on Monday). At pretty much the same time, our ( internet broke. )