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Go south young man.......and read a book on a SmartPhone
09 June 08 09:23 PM | Richard | with no comments

I have got into reading books off my HTC smart phone using the Microsoft Reader . It means you always have a book with you (as well as a web browser, blog writer , phone etc.....) The problem has been getting books in a suitable format, yes I know that...

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Why aren't there more plays about quantum physics?
04 May 08 08:36 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

Saw an excellent play last night, Hapgood at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. For those who have no heard if it, it is a Tom Stoppard play about spies and physics set in the late 80s. I know of two plays that take their theme from quantum uncertainly, this...

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A trip out to a Seattle Landmark
02 November 07 05:46 AM | Richard | with no comments

There is more to Seattle than the Space Needle and flying fish at Pike Place Market . At the end of the SOA conference today I persuaded Robert to embark on a tourist adventure, to brave the Seattle traffic and go to Archie McPhee " Outfitters of...

Filed under: Books, SOA, Weird Stuff

How books date
16 July 07 11:11 PM | Richard | with no comments

I have been having a phase of reading novel's I read years go , this time it is Neuromancer by William Gibson (published 1984). This choice was triggered by it being reviewed on BBC Radio4's A Good Read , the suggestion of Bill Thompson the BBC technology...

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Microsoft in SCIAM
04 April 07 11:52 AM | Richard | with no comments

There seems to be a good deal of Microsoft stuff over the past few editions of Scientific American (SCIAM), and before you ask yes I do live in the UK, but I find Nature a bit too academic for me and New Scientist has too many job adverts. SCIAM is just...

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Time to revisit Microserfs
17 January 07 05:32 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

I was given a copy of JPod by Douglas Coupland for Christmas, now I will not be adding anything to the range of reviews to say it is very much Microserf V2.0 - similar story but it is just that people seem not to work as hard (but are still in the office...

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