Snowy On 18th Jan 2013

View From Alexandra Park On The Way Home From Work

9th February 2013

7th February 2013

I've just been asked to send a letter to my MP about the proposal to ban some pesticides that may be harmful to bees. I don't know enough about this to write to my MP, but from what I've read scientists haven't reached a settled view on it, and so …

I've just emailed my MP about the Libel Reform Bill:

Hi Don, I'm aware that you're a supporter of libel reform in the UK and I'm writing to you as a constituent to ask you to take the necessary steps to ensure the bill is passed before the end of …

Jonathan sent me a link to a blog post called MOOCs as capital-biased technological change. It argues that the effect of MOOCs will be to reduce demand for university teaching, which is what supports creative research, and so society's academic output will decline.

I'd argue that if MOOCs lower …

I've seen a couple of good articles on UK nuclear subsidies recently. The first article is by Gerry Wolff. Here's an excerpt:

There is no justification of any kind for subsidising nuclear power and there is every reason to ensure that nuclear power is not on the list of technologies …

Inspired by an article in Wired, I've put all the bugs in my house on BitBucket. To see them, click on the issues link. To report a new bug you have to sign up to BitBucket, then create a new issue.

I forgot to mention this in my last post on the Steve Jobs biography, but I was amused to read Jobs' views on PowerPoint:

One of the first things Jobs did during the product review process was ban PowerPoints. "I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking …