Tuesday, October 29, 2013

'Ender's Game' - (film)

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The film of Orson Scott Card's 1985 novel 'Ender's Game' has been advertised and reviewed as 'Harry Potter meets Star Wa...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

'Why Arabs Lose Wars' - Colonel Norvell B. De Atkine

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Interesting article (old but nothing has really changed) on the social-cultural reasons why Arabic societies - militarised and clan-based - ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

'Captain Phillips' - (film)

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From The Telegraph review . "Hanks plays to his strengths as an average guy, in this case one in extreme circumstances. We first see...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

'The Magic Flute' - Tobacco Factory Theatre

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For what it's worth. Prince Tamino and his Sancho Panza-esque companion, the bird-catcher Papageno, get to meet the 'Queen of the Ni...
Monday, October 21, 2013

"The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded."

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Not a message you want to see as you try to log-on to your laptop. Asus Netbook: can't log-in The offending error message I ...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

'Summertime' - J. M. Coetzee

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Mr Vincent,  an English academic, is writing a biography of J. M. Coetzee, the deceased Nobel prize-winning author. The book covers the mid-...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Solar lights are go

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Three days of charging are up and our night-lights have been turned on. No more bumping into obstacles ...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

'Quantum Computing Since Democritus' - Scott Aaronson

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If you’re a computational complexity theorist, then everything looks like .. well, a problem in computational complexity. Scott Aaronson is ...

Solar is go! (Just kidding)

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I already mentioned our thoughts about ' going solar '. The recent rise in fuel prices has refocused our minds on IKEA, and its plan...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

"The name is Bond ... " - er, no actually.

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The intermittent 5:2 fasting and gym work have made my old suits (40 inch waist) something only a clown could love. The author: M&S-...