Saturday, December 4, 2010

Prezi! And amusing facial hair regulations

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I saw a presentation by DECC's youth panel today, which used Prezi (pronounced "pre-zee"). Prezi is software available for-fr...
Monday, June 21, 2010

learning to use Gnome in ubuntu

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I'm a crusty old unix user, and I have been using nice old twm as my window-manager for ages (since about 1991). Everything worked nice...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Add word to dictionary (fix instructions)

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In my new job I have been forced to use Microsoft Office for the first time. One of the minor painful issues has been the impossibility of a...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

'Artificial Shakespeare' breakthrough announced by scientists

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Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic Shakespeare. The researchers constructed a Shakespeare play by assembl...
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Electoral systems

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I've been reading up on voting systems and "proportional representation". The BBC has a nice article on what other countries d...
Monday, February 8, 2010

How to make an animated gif with small file-size

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I wanted to make an animation showing the evolution of global temperature and the number of sunspots over the last 129 years. I used gnuplot...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Bayes' theorem makes it into the BBC

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This article about false positives seems quite well done. The BBC article links to an animation on the Understanding uncertainty website. ...