The STFC have recently massively slashed the budget for Physics in the UK by £80million. It means amongst many other things that the UK will drop out of exceedingly important international research, and many British research programmes will come under threat. It will also make it exceedingly difficult to take up further studies of Physics […]
Ugh.
On updating iTunes and Quicktime my mac froze and upon rebooting I discovered that something went wrong.
Very wrong in fact, with the “Welcome to Leopard” wizard appearing on logon and refusing to let me log in.
One full time machine restore later and my mac is working again, unfortunately it’s now refusing to back […]
I have recently rejoined the world of the mobile phone user with my purchase of a Sony Ericsson k800i from three, and have to say that I am fairly happy with it as the call quality is very good and three offer the best data plan that I could find. The camera is also quite […]
Themak.org is now (mostly) happy on it’s new host and Wordpress is now running at 2.2.1.
All links from alex.palgn.co.uk should now point to themak.org.
Here’s a preview of what’s soon going to be the new look of themak.org:
All critisism welcome for the new design.
The new theme is also going to mark a whole new version of themak.org, the move from the brilliant PALGN free hosting to an ASO shared hosting plan where I will also move this blog from […]
The awesome BBC Radio4 comedy series The Now Show has returned with another series. But what makes it especially cool is that they’re serving them up as a podcast, so if you’ve missed the last two shows (or don’t live in England) you can download them from the beeb. [wikipedia link for the uniniciated]
After a 4am start on wednesday, and a long journey- I’m (and have been for the past few days) in Germany on my third German exchange trip. I’ve been taking lots of photos- and should have some good ones to upload. Also, I’ve just bought myself a nice pari of Sennheiser ‘phones (MX-55) :D, as […]
It’s slightly too late to be wishing everyone a prosperous 2007; but anyways all the best to all of you.
Work to be done…
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This recipie for chocolate truffles from cooking for engineers produces some really nice truffles. However, buying a melon baller before embarking on it would be a very good idea.
Tim just sent me a link to this comprehensive guide to sorting algorithms called sorting out sorting from the seventies.
Java sorting code.
Wikipedia page.
On another note I’m going to have a go at making these. Yum.
Yesterday I received an invitation to the new brainchild from the makers of mydreamapp (I voted portal); MacHeist. Personally I don’t know what it is yet, but I do know that I will get hevilly discounted or free shareware. And in my books, that’s a good thing.
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