The Luck Project

Roundabouts of Great Britain.

Winterskills< Course/a>

Mathematics could stabilize peace treaties

Phillips Scientific Home Page - for NIM/TTL conversion

Scientists, like criminals, peak at 30.

Vivisimo Clustering - automatic categorization and meta-search software

Another Hywel Owen - my namesake!

Gadget Hub :: Great gagdets at great prices

Hillarys Blinds

www.planetjemma.com

Memix Watches

Competitions UK - Updated UK Competitions to Enter Online

british shopping UK

Vatican Dress Code Steams Tourists

Bomb alert over 'break-wind' dog

Fact Guru

The Smoking Gun - for all your celebrity lawsuit needs....

FollowUs - mobile phone location.

Strawberries may boost astronaut performance: Frozen fruit protects rats' brains from harmful rays. Er, right...

Campaign for Digital Rights.

Be careful, girls.... not a nice story.

Top rally drivers banned - strange but true...

my e-home ::== wireless networking for home and office ==::

How to make a Pringles Antenna - extend your 802.11 range to 10 miles....

net stumbler dot com. Marvellous.

Security Flaw with Diebold Voting Systems

National Statistics Online

FPDSavills - Research

How to bluejack

Terahertz rays track down drugs.

Sony Professional Camera Systems

Terahertz rays track down drugs

MMA Tips and Tricks

How Much Information?

Almost half of adults 'lack basic maths'

LocustWorld - a hardware solution for a wireless-only extensible internet.

A useful definition of what Wiki is.

At last, a a female professional footballer.

Bluetooth Headset

Peewee the hamster - aawww!

Resources for Economists

Wimps

How people walk.

Ceská republika - Zámky, hrady a jiné zajímavosti.

pis.cz.

The Blocker Tag.

Some privacy links on RFID:

Big Brother in RFID

Benetton and Tesco using RFID

Prada's smart tags too clever?

No Human Barcode.

VeriChip - I can't believe they think they can get away with this one....

Electronic Privacy Information Centre

Mark of the Beast - a bit strong, but makes a point. Another one.

Losers. Marvellous.

A fantastic opportunity to sell your soul for real cash.

German men get own kindergarten

"...the local Game Show television network has launched a new hit series called Who Wants to be Governor of California.". God bless America, 'cause no-one else is likely to.

The Degree Confluence Project

This is what science is all about.

Simple STM Project - how to build your own atom-resolution microscope for under 100 dollars/euros.

The Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science - a useful resource site for how science affects society, especially in the legal sphere.

Intelligent Space - a company looking at crowd behaviour. Very interesting.

Phone wait over for Dhaka man - one of those great stories....

Some Mathematica hints and tips.

Jabberwacky - the latest program trying to beat the Turing test.

Advice on the Atkins diet.

Lucane - perhaps an interesting collaborative platform.

Perhaps a useful utility to edit .PS files: pstoedit.net. Not much else to say at the moment - Gran's very ill.

Badgers.

'To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.'

George Bush Snr, 'A World Transformed', 1998.

Kids never listen to their parents.

The Political Compass: a fun site to test out your socio-political attitudes.

RSS: Gateway to News and Blog Content, Part 1 - an interesting article on Blogs and RSS.

Evidence for the 'CERN English' effect. A recent article notes that non-natives understand each other better than they understand native speakers: Accents have advantages.

Info on my Dad's band - the Plebs.

Is Elmo Bush's secret weapon? Honestly, you can't make stuff like this up. It must be true..... PS You can also get a poster where Elmo teaches kids how good Capitalism is. No, I'm serious....

The new MSN Music Club site has started. I think this is supposed to be a bit like Apple's service in the US. A permanent download of a track (i.e. that you can put on your own CDs) is about £1. This looks like a good price to me - small enough that you wouldn't notice it coming out of your account, but enough that the record company can pay for its recording. It might take off - it had better, as the music industry is sunk otherwise.

Priceless: How to brand lard.

An interesting slant on Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempts to rule California. You might need to register to read it.

The Small World Project at Columbia University. An interesting project based on Stanley Milgram's groundbreaking work on social networks. Also, here's some info on the Ohio Small World Project. There is also an interesting article on the topic.

Sony Online Support

Some Daresbury Webcams:
New Science Park
New Daresbury Laboratory Entrance Building

Some blogging tools:

PowerBlog

ZDNet Downloads

I'm sat here with Naomi, who's wondering what a Weblog is. 'Basically', I tell her, 'it's an online journal so that you can share your thoughts, links, pics etc. with anyone who's interested'.
For example, it could be used as a discussion site for people to get the latest information on products, support for software etc. Or it can be used collaboratively for work or school projects. Or it can just be so that you don't have to write mass-emails to let people know what you're up to while you're not in contact....

Just seen this link to the Newton Project while I was reading the Sunday Times. This is a very usefel project to make all of Newton's work available online. It makes an interesting counterpoint to James' Gleick's recent biography of Newton.

BBC News - Alastair Campbell quits. Hooray!

An interesting article on credit card culture in the UK. More and more people are getting themselves into big debts. People use the excuse that houses are too expensive, so that they can justify being in huge amounts of debt for their day-to-day expenses. In reality, it seems that more and more people look at credit as a way to get instant retail gratification rather than planning what they really want and then earning the money to afford it. I suppose it's always been like that.

Well, I'm back after a bit of an absence. I've been away at a workshop in Berlin, and intended to write some summaries of what was happening while I was there, but it turned out that there wasn't enough time each day, or more importantly anough battery in my laptop while I was sat there in the seminar room! The moral of this tale is that while wireless networking is all very well, it ain't much use without a battery. Similarly, my digital camera broke (again!) while I was away, so only a few pictures as well.... Usually I rate Sony products, but this camera (a 2MP P-51) has had a recurrent shutter problem. Ho hum , I'll just have to see whether I get any joy from the Sony Repair Centre - they were a real hassle last time.

Just found a useful link on how to find papers in AIP Journals: Physics Finder.

Just foun this interesting link from this week's Nature: Politics & Science, covering the alleged distortion of science policy to political ends. Makes interesting reading.

Of course, she's not in....

Just been trying to find out my Auntie's new telephone number using the Cesky Telecom website; however, it doesn't work. They've changed every number in the country, including the local codes. It was worth using 118 003 to get it....

Well, the results of the National Eisteddfod instrumental prize were announced yesterday, and one of my Dad's pupils won for the 6th year running. I've added a picture of Dad on his new motorbike to my Fotolog page.

Watching the Eisteddfod (sp?) on the telly - some duff flautist playing Faure. But then, even if it was played well I wouldn't like it. Come back James Galway, all is forgiven.

Hot

God.... it's still hot. It's 1 am, I've escaped to Wales and it's STILL hot. Went to the George Borrow hotel in Ponterwyd tonight - the 3rd set of owners since my Dad moved here. They're selling up as well. Met a mate of my Dad's, who used to live round the corner from us 30 years ago in Willesden Green. My gran used to work with his dad. Amazing. The world is full of coincidences.
The pool table still doesn't work properly though.

I've taken a photo of the new Science Park building. You can see the roof panels going on the left.

Well, I've finally sorted out my website and made it look half-decent, so people can find stuff. Hopefully the links on may page will help you navigate more easily. I've also created a Fotolog account. This is a really nice idea, as you can post images day-by-day as well as do text logs here. For example, my latest pictures are here.

Today is a long day at work. I'm getting some results together for a workshop in Berlin and for a conference in California - all CSR-based ones.

Work on the new science park across the road from Daresbury is going quickly. The building framework is up and the panels have arrived. However, the addition of roadworks on Keckwick Lane mean that the entire journey from home to work has roadworks now. Still, at least it gives the impression of progress. All be over by Christmas with any luck.