Given that I spent last week locked in Somerville anticommuting gamma matrices, you've probably seen more of the publicity than I have, but in case you missed it... tomorrow (Wednesday) has been dubbed "Big Bang Day". This is a media event when first circulating beams are injected into the LHC. As I'm working on ATLAS, one of the four-ish detectors ( Read more... )

I'm not usually a fan of costuming, but this one is particularly impressive

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I've been designing a device in my head. This ought to exist, but if it does I'm not quite sure what it would be called or how I could find it. Maybe some of you other techies out there can point me in the right direction - or set me straight.

It started with my long-held desire for a replacement wireless router. ( some technical details )

shanith and I have finished watching Dark Angel. ( not really a spoiler )

The Science Select Committee just released the report into its enquiry about the present funding crisis in Particle Physics and Astronomy. It was pretty damning of the DIUS and the management of my employer, the STFC. I've not yet finished the full report, but from what I have read, I haven't found anything to disagree with. I am impressed by how ( Read more... )

for more than a month

1. Prestbury near Cheltenham
   
2. Cheltenham
   
3. Chevy Chase near Washington DC
   
4. Winchcombe near Cheltenham
   
5. Oxford: Lincoln College, Museum Road, Botley Road, and latterly the environs of the Cowley Road
   
6. AERE Harwell, Oxfordshire
   
7. Ipswich
   
8. Meyrin, Geneva
   
9. Geneva City
   
10. Saint-Genis-Pouilly just over the French border from Geneva
    
11. Palo Alto, ( Read more... )

but nicked from jinty


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Suddenly all was darkness. Life and hope and Battlestar Galactica had been snuffed from our lives. So I went out in search of a better land where power flowed from every wall, and light was so common as to be unremarkable. In short, a land with Wifi. And coffee ( Read more... )

Blagged from parrot_knight's journal.

89% Dennis Kucinich
87% Mike Gravel
84% Chris Dodd
83% Barack Obama
81% John Edwards
80% Bill Richardson
79% Joe Biden
79% Hillary Clinton
38% Rudy Giuliani
29% Ron Paul
28% John McCain
22% Mike Huckabee
21% Mitt Romney
17% Tom Tancredo
12% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizI guess I need to find out more about my ( Read more... )

I was going to call this "Please help save my job", but having been the victim of a previous cut, I am hoping that even if this thing goes through, I'll still have a job. But you never know. In any case, some of my colleagues won't be so lucky.

There's a petition to 10 Downing Street to reverse an £80M shortfall in funding for UK research into ( Read more... )