It was my friend Bill that started it. 'Come to the Science Cafe', he said. That was ages ago, and I've been to every one since (apart from the one on football). Monday saw Dick Taverne talking on the theme of his book, The March of Unreason. He delivered a …

Bob sent me a link to the consultation on the draft Climate Change Bill. Here's the response I sent to Defra:

1. I'm concerned that by raising the cost of carbon emissions in the UK, countries with lower emissions costs will come to see their unregulated emissions as a competitive advantage …

Every public electricity supply in the UK has a unique MPAN number, the last digit of this is the check digit. I tried to impress my dad with this knowledge, and he gamely showed interest. 'You mean a check digit like on the end of credit card numbers?', he asked …

Announcing a new version of Imprimatur. The two main changes are:

• Fetches the test script DTD locally if there's no network connection.
• Fixed a bug where an '@' would incorrectly appear in URLs to test.

There's a good example of syllepsis in Dignity by Deacon Blue:

And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter

In an earlier post I argued against a law prohibiting the denial of the holocaust.

I've just listened to a programme on Radio 4 where the leader of the BNP used the threat of extradition to France as a way of evading the interviewer's questions on the holocaust. The French …

Some time ago I switched my electricity supplier to Good Energy, thinking that it would mean that my electricity use wouldn't be contributing to CO2 emmissions. On Saturday my friend Bill came up with an argument that made me rethink green electricity.

In the UK, thanks to privatization, customers can …

Dear reader, today is election day in Trowbridge. I voted before work, and there was a trickle of people at the polling station. Both West Wilts District Council and Trowbridge Town Council are up for election. I'm ashamed to say that I'm ignorant of the candidates, and local party policies …

I agree, one of the great things about the film is its ambiguity.

I must confess that having read one Dean Koontz book hasn't motivated me to read more. Reading K-Pax might be interesting though.

K-pax i was talking about, not jeckyl and hyde, of course!