Skeptics, Scepticism and the Power of Questions
I was lucky enough to get to hear Stephen Fry speak at one of our graduation ceremonies in the summer. It was a great speech, strong on kindness, lawnmowers and […]
I was lucky enough to get to hear Stephen Fry speak at one of our graduation ceremonies in the summer. It was a great speech, strong on kindness, lawnmowers and […]
What if the Doctor were dead? How would his former companions, many of whom seem to be concentrated on Earth at around the turn of the millennium, know if he […]
I don’t object to Lord Kinnock supporting Ed Milliband, or being pleased that he has won. But his comment, that “we’ve got our party back” just makes me depressed. Where […]
I made a video with and about my phone. Updated to add file sizes: 1 minute of HD from the back camera was approximately 72mb. 1 minute from the front […]
Having been arguing about Bond films lately, I cannot believe I haven’t already posted my best and worst… Here’s the top three. From Russia With Love is a near perfect […]
If we get iTunesU at work there will be many discussions about whether to have a closed and/or open site. It would be great if the site had a pleasant, […]
What’s better than a story featuring space-age feudalism, sexy young monarchs, a mythical monster and a hermaphroditic hexapod diplomat? A trilogy of them, of course. The template is set by Brian […]
There’s just been something good on ITV. This is an increasingly rare event, so this has been the first time I’ve used ITV Player since… well, ever, probably. The failure […]
For all their utility, a draw back of the social media tools I use is that they are centralised. One monolithic, commercially operated platform acts as a repository for all […]
My obsession with the actors who have played the Doctor continues… I’ve been reading the Eighth (Paul McGann) discussing the Tenth (Tennant) and Eleventh (Smith): David Tennant is such a […]
A couple of colleagues and friends have been singing the praises of email lately. I hate it. Largely because of the things that made it so popular with me originally […]
Since BBC 4 have announced there will be a TV adaptation of Dirk Gently, but there are few actually details to be garnered (aside from the fact that Vexed writer […]