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Category: Science | c: 30 Apr 2012 15:28 | m: 30 Apr 2012 15:30

Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter and Google+ diluted the realtime pool.

Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people having a midlife crisis reduces my vocabulary to four letter words — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. Txt spk iz da bom.

Wetter get a bucket 30 April 2012 · 1495 words (vacuums up about 7 mins)

What links the weather, hose pipe bans, the stock market, children, and the environment. Why, housing. Probably.

My brain is speeding up 29 April 2012 · 121 words (wastes less than a minute)

The perils of having an over-active hyperbrain that takes things in too quickly before processing.

All the 1s 11 November 2011 · 134 words (kills less than a minute)

When is a date not a date? When you find a computer science nerd to mis-represent it.

Electric youth 31 December 2010 · 306 words (kills about 2 mins)

Remember the everlasting match? Invented in the 1970s if I recall correctly. Have you got one? Didn’t think so, because the invention was silenced and bought by the match makers of the time to protect their business model. Same with electric cars, it seems.

Space is pretty big 14 December 2010 · 384 words (vacuums up about 2 mins)

Space: the final frontier. These are the facts and figures behind our very own V’ger (as they pronounced it in Star Trek 1) in everyday language. Still pretty mind boggling all the same.

Two identical snowflakes: statistical hokum? 29 November 2010 · 330 words (kills about 2 mins)

When is a snowflake not a snowflake? That’s the real question we should be asking.

Stef wears devil horns. Wrongly

It's rude to point