Old Blog posts imported here

Yesterday updated this site with some old imported Blog posts from November 2005 to sometime in 2006. These were initially posted on the Warwick University blogs (http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk) when Blogs were a new and novel idea! Having not used them for nearly 4 years decided it was time to finally close them and move archived posts over to here.. not that…

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UFO – Try Me

Gettin’ Ready for the UFO gig in Leamington Spa tonight I stumbled upon this on YouTube (taken from the second disc of the Showtime DVD (2005) with Phil Mogg, Paul Raymond, Vinnie Moore, Jason Bonham and string section (Pete Way is not involved in this track but is in the background). Nice rendition of Try Me (from 1977’s Lights Out),…

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Ee’s SLideshow Viewer and Second Life 2.0

So, Linden Labs caught everyone by surprise and made the Beta 2.0 viewer the main release for new residents, despite there being numerous bugs that still need to be fixed. Pertinent to Ee’s SLideshow viewer are the new shared media facilities, or more precisely changes to parcel media.

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Fractal dinner!

Much to my surprise, my mum has turned out to be a budding mathematician and for dinner on Christmas Eve we were presented with Romanesco Broccoli! I had forgotten what a beautiful vegetable it was (the last one I’d seen I had bought from Tesco for a lecture on fractals about 10 years ago). For anyone of a mathematical persuasion…

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