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One of the advantages of being a university student is that there are ample opportunities to be a psychology experiment test subject. If you’re ever bored and could do with a bit of cash, it’s well worth checking out if there are any psychology researchers looking for test subjects. Usually you’ll end up sitting in [...]

We will not fly our flags in their country - a stirring speech given by a British army commander to his troops on the eve of war.

I’ve just spent some time trying to migrate over to Mozilla Mail. I failed miserably. Let me explain why. Firstly, I fired up Mozilla Mail; no problem. Then I told it to import my Outlook Express addressbook. Also, no problem. I was pretty optimistic at this point.
Next, I told it to import my Outlook Express [...]

Yesterday I had an interesting debate about whether science is suffering from diminishing returns these days; i.e. that it costs more than it used to to get answers. On the face of it, this seems true; we spend billions on particle accelerators, space telescopes and medical research programmes. We never spent that amount of money [...]

One of the problems with keeping a regularly updated weblog is that when you do searches on Google, you often end up being directed back to your own entries: Google Search: cambridge bike repair

Idea Stores - apparently these are the libraries of the future in the UK, doing more than just lending out books. Sounds like an interesting idea although I will withhold judgement for now.

Another BBC News story about schoolkids walking out over war. To my mind, this is just nuts. Obviously university students can do what they like (although interestingly most people in Cambridge haven’t done any walking out), and I can just about see sixth formers being of sound mind to do it. But 11-16 year olds? [...]

I spent part of yesterday afternoon engaged in playing games on a friend’s computer; very productive. When I fired up Age of Mythology, the volume on the speakers was off since I’d been having a chat. Just as it was getting into the nice intro sequence, I thought, maybe this would make more sense if [...]

With the recent release of Mozilla 1.3, I’ve been seriously considering switching to Mozilla Mail from Outlook Express. The only real reason why I want to do this is because Mozilla has Bayesian spam classification, and given that I am getting increasing amounts of spam these days, it would be very useful. My concerns are [...]

The Best of Craigslist New York - for the non-American readers here, Craigslist is an online community consisting of (I believe) mainly tech-savvy people looking for jobs, chat and romance. Their ‘Best of’ list is always full of fun ads and messages. Quite apart from that, it’s always interesting trying to figure out all the [...]