Translating Peter Rabbit (hieroglyph edition)
Skip ahead to the translation here. I’ve added some notes about this to my Posterous I’ve been learning Egyptian hierogylphs for nearly a year now at the Egypt Exploration Society in London. So far I’ve only translated texts provided by my course tutor that have been either texts from monuments or specially written texts to [...]
Soft Circuit
I’m starting to explore the world of soft circuits – the fusion of electronics and fabrics. The other day I got a Lilypad Protosnap development board. The Lilypad Arduino is a microcontroller designed to be sewn into clothing. I’d seen quite a few things done with the Lilypad Arduino before, but as I don’t have [...]
Sarah Palin Vetted?
During the Republican primaries I was thinking “You know, if McCain wins the nomination and ends up winning the election, it’ll be OK. He’s not completely batshit insane, certainly compared to the Bush White House. So if it happens, I’ll be OK with it.” I was always going to vote Democrat, of course, but wasn’t [...]
Atheist Reading List
I am an atheist. I wasn’t raised in a religious household – though I did my first Communion and went to a couple Sunday School classes because my grandparents insisted- but certainly never believed in what I picked up about Christianity through osmosis. Before I starting thinking about it properly, I believed there was ‘something [...]
“I Have Rights”
This morning on Twitter, I started out with a conversation about a great blog post about how PR agencies don’t seem to get ‘online’, then segued into a short discussion about the differences between blogging and journalism (very basically, I think that bloggers haven’t done themselves any favours by continuing to operate without a ‘code [...]
My 2007
On first thought, I’d say that 2007 was fairly uneventful. My past few months have consisted of me being ill and feeling like I’ve done very little other than try and get healthy again… Then, when I properly think about it, I realise that the whole year has been MENTAL! January Me and Charlie Brooker [...]
Sunshine And CERN
OK. A couple exciting things. First things first, as all of you Sunshine fans will have heard by now, the film is being released in the US and Canada on the 20th of July! Yes! Finally. I’m soooooo very excited. I’m hoping to be in the States then, too, so I’ll be able to go [...]
Slave To Photography
These past few days I’ve started taking some photos which have particularly excited me… with my mobile phone camera. Yep. I’ve found out how to take… wait for it…. infrared photos with my Sony Ericsson mobile phone. It’s seriously cool. They do need a bit of Photoshop tarting (adjusting levels and contrast etc) as a [...]
Kylie, Cornwall or Reactor Cores
This was written for the Potential Energy blogging project I did for the Institute of Physics in 2006. The blog is no longer working. You can view the original blog post and comments at Archive.org here. I’ve taken the links directly from the original piece. I can’t guarantee that they are still active links. I’ve [...]
I’m Rather Busy
I’ve been rather busy this week and it’s looking like next week will probably be just as busy. I’ve got the Sunshine redesign and all of the last-minute faffy things that involves, the launch of the LHC which I was just going to be attending, but now will be working at it, four meetings (including [...]
Lazy Night
I stayed in and watched some dvds last night. Watched The Hours and absolutely loved it. Having been through a period of *massive* dissatifaction with my life and relationship a couple years ago, I thought this film and the actresses in it portrayed that desperate and desperately sad feeling perfectly. I could almost remember how [...]
Yoko Ono
I was involved in a discussion about Yoko Ono on my favourite messageboard yesterday. Some people were asking if we thought that Yoko was involved in John’s murder. After all kinds of unfounded accusations based on opinion rather than fact, I decided to jump in on the side of Yoko. ——————– I’m going to stick [...]
