Archives for: February 2009
Sell off Royal Mail? No thanks
So the government's plans to sell off about 30% of Royal Mail are again getting attention. Most of the newspaper world are of course siding with the government on this. The Sun says that this "shambolic" operation should of been sold of… more »
Empire Total War demo
The Empire Total War demo went up today, after waiting almost 6 hours for it to download (Steam was under a bit of strain, the UK server was trickling it down at 12KB/s, so I had to use the US East Coast server which wasn't much better at about 100KB/s),… more »
Questions for "Evolutionists" part 2
I had a comment posted on my original Questions for "Evolutionists" post by someone called Eli, they make some highly effective arguments. Something that evolutionist can not answer is why are there planets that spin in the opposite direct… more »
Cosmos view in WorldWide Telescope
A new feature that WorldWide Telescope implemented in a recent release was the Cosmos view. This takes data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey which is in the process of mapping the distance to a million or so galaxies. You've probably seen images lik… more »
Daily Mirror fails big time - Moon hoax nonsense
The Daily Mirror seems to have found out about the Moon hoax nonsense, and of course - are republishing the nonsense, with just some minor token sceptisism thrown in. So let's sort em out, again. But were the Moon landings really mankind's greatest s… more »
The case against unbundling Internet Explorer from Windows
Yes this thing just won't go away will it. Crippling the user experience to keep companies that are mostly a waste of space like Opera (although their mobile browsers are capable and fairly successful) in business is unacceptable. We've seen this bef… more »
A bit of snow
Had a bit of snow fall the last couple of days, what does that mean? Picture time. Almost makes up for the fact its cloudy and I can't photograph Comet C/2007 N3 Lulin. more »
27th February 2009 16:27:50, 631 words, 1051 views






