I don’t use a Mac, and I’ve been thinking about why. I’ve been tempted to get one in the past, the specialist applications I use most (music and chemistry apps) are better supported on Mac systems. As for office software and general use apps, I’d be happy with the options on any platform. Apple make […]
Rands In Repose has a charmingly written guide to nerds called The Nerd Handbook. It had me chuckling for the whole tram journey this morning. I feel sorry for my wife sometimes.
Your nerd has built himself a cave. I’ve written about The Cave elsewhere, but here are the basics. The Cave is designed to allow […]
I was reading halting state on the bus this morning and then I come across this video.
Pattie Maes demos the sixth sense
Amazing stuff. In Halting State (near future SF) people wear glasses with cameras in the frames and projectors projecting onto the lenses of the glasses giving the wearer augmented reality overlays on the real […]
I’m an open access hippy geek. I’m kinda odd like that. I love it when people help each other out, share and be happy. I like community, which is why I like the internet. I have a fairly nice internet connection and I’d love it if I could share it with anybody around who would […]
Science needs to be transparent. Clear and systematic so that it can be understood by anyone willing to learn. This is a fundamental tenet of the scientific method. It avoids the pseudoscience of mysticism. It’s the difference between chemistry and alchemy.
But science can be very complex, especially when dealing with abstract things like atoms, molecules […]
I’ve just set myself up with PGP encryption facilitated by the wonderful FireGPG Firefox plugin. The plugin makes encrypting/decrypting gmail messages dead simple. It’s lovely.
So, my public key ID is: 0×5A0F02FB
Grab it and send me secret emailings.
For those of you who don’t really know what I’m on about, here’s a couple of links that helped […]