Got the final result for my MSc in Astrophysics from Queen Mary. Distinction! Go me!

Got the final result for my Open University physics degree. I got a first!

...and now I are one ( Read more... )

If I should die, think only this of me ( Read more... )

We had some special Christmas visitors at 6 o'clock this morning.

No, it wasn't Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen.

It was Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and GrubbWoke up with the flat full of smoke. We established there was nothing on fire and it was coming from the flat downstairs. Fire brigade were ( Read more... )

Andy Coulson displays a nice line in sarcasm at the Leveson inquiry:

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“In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and ( Read more... )

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Charles Moore writes on Abu Qatada:

"Most people would agree, however unenthusiastically, that our fellow citizens should be protected by whatever rights our laws provide, even when they are persistently criminal. They must have fair trials, legal representation, sentences that do not exceed the stated dose, and so on. But, outside those London ( Read more... )

Ancient computers still in use (including for nuclear weapons systems!).