Category: Off Topic

  • "One of the most important developments in the history of science"

    The New Scientist has a paywall up on its story about the mathematical work that says there are multiverses/multiple worlds/parallel universes. Somewhere, then, the story is not behind a paywall. So how can you find out more about “one of the most important developments in the history of science”? Luckily, there is an online FAQ…

  • Off topic: Dates and Apples

    I’m a big fan of Mahmood Al-Yousif’s blog from Bahrain. Occasionally he’ll throw in a little gardening info among the campaigning. Check out, for example, the dates in Mahmood’s back yard. So, with that in mind, I hope you’ll forgive a little off topic information from my own back yard. When we took over the…

  • Off topic: Tim the Pig man

    If you ever wanted a small example of the interaction of national, local and hyperlocal news, ponder the recent discovery of a strain of foot and mouth disease in a beef fattening herd, just down the road from us in Surrey. It could be ten, a hundred, or a thousand miles away. It means little…

  • Off topic: Setting up GPS for the Blackberry 8800 (T-mobile)

    Geek post coming up. Having just acquired the BlackBerry 8800 with GPS, I try it out. The GPS recognizes satellites, movement etc. but no bbmaps. I do a little internet hunting and the online consensus appears to be that my problem is with the TCP settings in Options/Advanced Options. My default APN is internet.com, with…