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Mount St. Helens

Posted on Thursday, September 30 , 2004 by John

As the chance of a new eruption at Mount St. Helens increases today, Shelley Powers has posted her recollection of living downwind of the previous eruption on May 18th 1980. Makes interesting reading – and makes you wonder what on … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature and Science

IMF says UK house prices too high

Posted on Thursday, September 30 , 2004 by John

The International Monetary Fund yesterday added its voice to that of The Economist and The Bank of England, pointing out that British house prices appear much higher than can be explained by developments in fundamentals (wages and rents), and warning: … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, In the UK

Modelling impossible Escher pictures in 3D

Posted on Tuesday, September 28 , 2004 by John

Most people will be familiar with Escher’s impossible pictures depicting water perpetually flowing downhill in a closed loop or triangles which appear to join up opposite sides. Gershon Elber has discovered that some of these impossible figures can be made … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature and Science

Ireland cuts phone lines to stop scams

Posted on Friday, September 24 , 2004 by John

Irish telcos were refusing to refund bills of up to $22 000 run up by unsuspecting computer users who had loaded trojan dialer programs to their computers and ended up routing their internet surfing via places such as Tuvalu, Diego … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing

Walking helps prevent dementia

Posted on Wednesday, September 22 , 2004 by John

Elderly men, who walked less than 1/4 mile per day were found to be nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those who managed two miles a day, an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association … Continue reading →

Posted in Family / This Site, Health

Flying a kite

Posted on Tuesday, September 21 , 2004 by John

If you have an old digital camera knocking around and fancy using it for some aerial photography, take a look at this article in engadget.com about taking pictures from a kite. If you can wield a soldering iron, it looks … Continue reading →

Posted in On the web

Tough liberalism

Posted on Monday, September 20 , 2004 by John

The British Liberal Democrat party is proposing to send teenage joyriders to go and race cars or learn car maintenance, as well as fining them £40. The proposal is called “tough liberalism” by the party spokesman. Um – is that … Continue reading →

Posted in In the UK

Not dishwasher-proof

Posted on Sunday, September 19 , 2004 by John

If you see glass muesli bowls like these – they were sold as Villeroy & Boch, but we can’t find them on their web site and they have no identifying marks – and intend to wash them in a dishwasher, … Continue reading →

Posted in General

How good is your spelling?

Posted on Thursday, September 16 , 2004 by John

Ruth and I both tried this spelling test in the Guardian. I confess, we both got 13 out of 23. Any of our friends or readers who can beat that – without cheating?

Posted in On the web, Reading matter

Single processor Apple G5 sleeps again

Posted on Tuesday, September 14 , 2004 by John

Apple have issued a patch to the G5 uniprocessor firmware, which I have applied. My G5 now sleeps again without the fans running, which is a big improvement.

Posted in Computing

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