Hughes has a big thing about dreams. He thinks dreams go into a supernatural archive and then:

At the last, having thereby made a unique contribution to something beyond us, each of us was to die into that insubstantial but immortal nowhere.

Absolutely barmy.

The story is of his search …

I loved this book, although of course I didn't agree with all of it. Take the swimming pools versus guns thing. Levitt says that swimming pools are statistically more dangerous to kids to have at a house, than guns. That may be, but swimming pools are fun and so shouldn't …

In my lifetime, everything's gone from being analogue to being digital. These terms are usually used when talking about electronics, but they needn't be.

I think of digital as being where a range of values correspond to another discrete value. In his book, The Digital River, Richard Dawkins says that …

I think my boiler's getting furred up because I can hear fragments of limescale move around when I turn the central heating on. Also, I live in a hard water area and everything gets covered in limescale.

It's a problem because it significantly impairs the efficiency of the boiler.

I'll …

Just out of interest....

1.how do you know your boiler is being fured up?

2.Why is it a problem?

I would be interested to hear if your new magnetic devices works or not!!

Limescale is starting to fur up the boiler in my house. The cheapest solution is one of those magnetic water conditioner things, but I'm doubtful that they work. There's an interesting article from Cranfield University that suggests that that anti-scale magnetic water treatment can work. I think I'll give the …

I heard on the radio that someone's come up with the idea of making it illegal to deny the holocaust in Europe.
I think that the holocaust did happen. Why do I think that? I'd like to be able to say that I've done a thorough review of the historical …

I have to let the readers know that Tony tried to wind me up after reading the article by saying that he agreed with it all. Grrr.....

Reading http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/conformancing reminded me of a similar thought I had. There are plenty of things that are socially unacceptable, but that are not morally unacceptable. I think that behaviour that fits into this category is disquieting because it implies that the person might disregard all …

Living to over 145 years, flying carpets, a year of continuous rain followed by 10 years of drought. These preposterous things occur in One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I'm literal minded, and so I also found difficult all the premonitions and apparitions and such.

Generation after …