Sense about Science
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in General, General Science, Health, Internet, Politics | No Comments »Hi all, Okay, so I haven't written for two months. Apologies for that. I'm afraid other things have been hihger priority recently. However, I'm just writing a brief note to urge everyone to sign up on the Sense About Science petition There's ...
C++ Release Advice
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »This is a short post that will mean nothing to almost all readers, but I need to say it as it took me so long to find a solution. This way, there's a solution out there that people will be ...
Mind Games
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Posted in Education, General | No Comments »Just a short note to tell you that I've finished working on my latest project, called MindGames. It's a fairly simple freely-downloadable game that lets you practice a selection of simple mental agility problems which will stretch your mind to ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 4
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in General, Internet | No Comments »In this final part of my 'look ahead to 2009' series, I'm looking at technology. What were the trends that dominated 2008, and what can we expect in the year ahead? There have been several large trends that have been extremely ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 3
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, General, General Science | No Comments »Environmental issues came to the front of everyone's mind in 2008 - right up until the credit crunch began to bite. And it may well turn out that the credit crunch was just the catalyst required to get people really ...
Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 Posted in General, General Science | 1 Comment »A very merry Christmas to all my readers. It's important that we remember, on this day, a baby born a very long time ago, in the early hours of the morning of 25th December, to an unmarried mother and absent father, ...
Ahhh… weekend
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »I've finally managed to get five minutes to update the blog. It's been a realy hectic week without time to sit down and take five minutes to myself. I'm afraid work on the Hovind slides has stalled. I'm hoping I'll ...
Good things
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Why do good things always keep happening to me? It's odd you never hear anyone ever say that, though you often notice people complaining about how bad things apparently happen to them all the time. Now, given that there is no ...
Conspiracy theories
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, General | 2 Comments »I've been thinking about exactly how a conspiracy theory starts up and I think I can explain it by continuing the story from a few days ago about the murder trial. Let's extend that analogy a little bit. The judge hears ...
What is evidence?
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, General | No Comments »I've heard lots of people claim that those who accept Darwin's theory of Evolution (or its modern descendants) are just following their own 'beliefs' or 'religion' because, as the argument goes, Scientists have no actual evidence for what they claim. ...
