One of my bets is that the heading of the ball will be banned in football. I sent some new evidence to Toby:

Toby, remember our heading a football bet?

http://blog.tlocke.org.uk/2007/07/ill-wager.html

New evidence coming in (I know this is American football, but …

I'm forever listening to Alphaville's Forever Young. It's a moving song, with an elegaic quality. One thing jars though in the lyrics. Look at this:

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be …

Before I started using Blogger, I used to have a blog with Yahoo! at http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/t.locke.

I moved to Blogger so that I could have my own domain name. I liked the old blog though. It had a cool background image of the shell …

Thanks to Julia at work for telling me about a study that shows that there are some benefits of growing ivy on the walls of building.

They found that ivy acted as a thermal blanket, warming up walls by an average of 15 per cent in cold weather and cooling …

Thank you to Glyn Moody for highlighting another example of the tragedy of the commons in his post: Greed vs. Survival: Which Prevails?. At national and EU level, we have a mechanism for avoiding tragedies of the commons. We can pass laws and regulate the commons. For example, in the …

I tweeted about Foursquare, and @icklemichael wrote:

@t_locke Do you ever worry that advertising your location might encourage burglers?

and @rdzien wrote:

t_locke check out: http://pleaserobme.com/

People do ask me if I'm worried about telling everyone where I am, and I give a few responses:

1. There are two …

Bill warned me that The Dark River wasn't as good as The Traveller, but I was pleasantly surprised by this, the second book in the Fourth Realm Trilogy by J12H. It carries on the exciting adventures of Gabriel and the Harlequins and Travellers.

Like many others, J12H classes privacy as …

Some time ago I stayed over at my dad's house for a few days while he convalesced from a minor operation. He's a great fan of Robert Goddard. Having said that he's recently mentioned that he needs to broaden his reading beyond Goddard. Dad's quite a slow reader, but my …

Someone requested that Imprimatur support HTTPS requests. It did seem an oversight, so I've remedied that with the newly released Imprimatur 017.

HTTPS requests are supported with the scheme attribute, which has a default of http, but can also be set to https. The scheme attribute can be used in …

I thought I'd read Jane Eyre because my friend has written a book on it. I'll own to not having read a single Bronte.

One observation; there are a lot of long silences. There's a Borat sketch where he says, 'there will now be a 10 minute silence'. Of course …