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Jul 04
2009

Mitchell & Webb - Homeopathic A&E

Posted by GrumpyBob in humour , complementary and alternative medicine

I caught this excellent sketch on this week's That Mitchell & Webb Look (BBC2).

Jul 02
2009

Sydney Brenner on C. elegans

Posted by GrumpyBob in peer reviewed science , history , genetics

ResearchBlogging.org

Jul 02
2009

Stony '11.4' 1st July 2009 - Hot, hot, hot

Posted by GrumpyBob in time trial

This was the hottest evening event so far - it was humid and temperatures reaching towards 30 centigrade made it tough for me (though, it has to be said, not for some other riders).  My roar up V10 to reach Stony was a good warmup, and after noticing several new riders (this was a "Come and Try it" event) and explaining how time trialling works, I started in the #17 spot.

Jun 28
2009

Big Train - Virginia Plain

Posted by GrumpyBob in humour

For some reason this sketch popped into my head yesterday evening after seeing a commercial for a Roxy Music compilation CD.  It's from an unfortunately quite short-lived comedy sketch show called Big Train, and begins with Chairman Mao on his deathbed:

Jun 28
2009

Parliamentary science committee reborn

Posted by GrumpyBob in politics

As reported in the BBC this week (Science and tech committee reborn), once again the UK Parliament has a committee to oversee science.  In recent ministerial revamps, the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS) was merged with BERR to form a new super-ministry - Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) - for Lord Mandelson, who seems to have emerged from the political wilderness to which he was consigned after a scandal too far a few years ago.  Interestingly, this means there's no Government department with Education or Science in its title.

Jun 27
2009

Wish You Were Here

Posted by GrumpyBob in Untagged 

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here was one of the first albums I bought (a late starter, I didn't start buying LPs until I went to University in 1977).  It's long since disappeared from my vinyl collection - probably as a result of a burglary a couple of decades ago.  Of course pretty soon after I started buying LPs, bands like Pink Floyd were excoriated as rock dinosaurs during punk rock's year zero...

Jun 27
2009

Malicious Software

Posted by GrumpyBob in software

Installing Internet Exploiter 8* on a laptop that dual boots Linix and WinXP...it's checking for malicious software**...will it spot Windows?

Jun 26
2009

Great Australian Firewall function creep

Posted by GrumpyBob in liberty

I've blogged before on the Great Australian Firewall - this being the plans of the Australian Government to take concepts of child protection to the extent of internet filtering to levels seen in (for example) China.  The whole process got rather murky with the release of the details of banned sites via Wikileaks.

Jun 24
2009

Astwood '10' - 24th June 2009 "What, no panniers?"

Posted by GrumpyBob in time trial

Well, this event marked my return to racing after a 4 week layoff (away for cycle touring - see elsewhere in this blog, then last week's event got called off).  It did feel a little strange.

Jun 23
2009

Drupal vs Joomla! part 3

Posted by GrumpyBob in software

OK, so installing the FCKeditor (see part 1) was quite fiddly.  I've now installed a couple more add-on modules, and they were pretty easy to do.

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