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Another two weeks on Mars
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No comments on Another two weeks on MarsMars in Utah – my friend Katie is part of the Mars Society Desert Research Station Crew 11 (I was in Crew 9) and she’s writing a weblog about her experiences. If you enjoyed reading my Two Weeks on Mars weblog and would like to have a different perspective that perhaps doesn’t concentrate so much…
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Collective
Collective – the BBC’s latest effort to create its own online community and yet more evidence of their web savvyness. As pointed out on Metafilter, it’s more accessible than h2g2, but to my eyes the front page looks far too busy for newcomers. What I’d like to know is how on Earth the BBC manages…
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Pattern Recognition
A major part of my project involves me taking recordings of a signal (in this case, electrochemical spikes from a neuron) and discriminating them from the noise inherent in the system…
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Stepping out
So for a couple of hours this evening I tried to replicate the Dance Dance Revolution experience using my PC. Waiting for me at Cambridge today were two nice new Playstation gamepad USB adaptors that I bought off Ebay; I was intending to hook my two dance mats up to the computer via USB, download…
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Digital TV
An interesting quotation from this week’s New Scientist confirms what I’ve suspected* for a while: The latest 42 inch widescreen flat plasma panel screens cost around $7000, not counting a $250 wall mount and the digital tuner needed to receive broadcasts. Yet customers appear unconvinced of their quality. It turns out you cannot see the…
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WMD
In the Sunday Times today is a short opinion article by John Humphries; it’s a relatively pedestrian essay about how we shouldn’t make AK-47s any more, etc etc. Not really worthy of note, other than the fact that its title, ‘AK-47s are weapons of mass destruction too’ is quite obviously ripped off from Michigan’s Lake…
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Calling you
Why is it the case that on Orange, you can call any number in the USA at any time of the day for 15p/minute, while it costs 35p/minute to make calls to anyone in the UK at peak time? This only applies for the popular Everyday 50 tariff, but I suspect it’s still cheaper to…
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MDRS shop
Check out the MDRS Crew 9 shop that I just set up, full of Crew 9 branded goodies including wall calendars, baseball caps, T-shirts, mugs and teddybears!
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Dragonspace
Dragon Space – a dedicated web portal for all China-related space news. Pretty nifty, and it has all the latest happenings with their Shenzhou craft, the fourth of which is expected to take off within the next few days.
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Back
Well, I’m finally back from Utah. I actually got back about five days ago, but I think I can be excused from writing entries here what with jetlag and all the Christmas festivities going on – plus, if you’re bored, you should be reading my Two Weeks on Mars weblog. Things have been fairly quiet…
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