Sponsor me for the Great Manchester Run in aid of the MS society at http://beatms.mssociety.org.uk/netcommunity/katie-great-mcr-runRead more... )

The MS society sent me bumpf about doing the Great Manchester Run (Sunday 16th May) at the start of January - it never arrived. Luckily, I emailed them to ask if it had been sent out yet, and got the info emailed back to me ( Read more... )

It's so exciting that they're getting it up and running. It may take years, but we should see some major steps in subatomic physics.

In order to give myself a goal for getting more fit, and to raise money for the MS Society, I'll be doing the Great Manchester run next year (not necessarily quickly, but I'll walk parts of the 10K if necessary). Overall, the run is in aid of RNIB, so that's 2 ace charidee causes ( Read more... )

Conversations at the weekend reminded me yet again of how poorly most news reporting uses averages. The common mistake is always reporting the mean as the "average", when often the mean isn't a good representation of the underlying data. So the "average" wage that's normally reported and the "average" amount spent on a wedding are both dramatically ( Read more... )

Everyone else has already reviewed Star Trek, so I'll just have to feebly agree with them. It's a good film, definitely worth seeing. Younger versions of the crew mostly played very well (especially Spock and McCoy, weakest act probably Kirk). grrm posted the only negative review I've seen, and did raise one damn good point about the lack of new sci-fi ( Read more... )

The HBO pilot of A Game of Thrones starts filming in October. More info on George R R Martin's blog: grrm. Squeee! I have a desperate, probably unrealistic, hope that the excellent HBO might actually do my favourite fantasy series justice

Loving playing with the new Street View feature on Google maps. Worth checking out if you haven't yet :-)

Recently, I've mentioned finishing the novels Matter by Iain M Banks (brilliant, one of my favourite Culture novels), The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (also brilliant, better than Stardust IMO) and A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (not my usual taste, but amusing, touching and certainly worth reading), and the non-fiction Curing MS by Howard L ( Read more... )

For the first time in 2 years, the big twice-yearly re-enactor's market near Coventry doesn't clash with a LRP event I'm going to! Must get saving and buy more funky kit!