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Shameless
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By now both of my loyal readers will have noted the subtle addition of a teeny-tiny box over on the right-hand side, courtesy of Google. Yes, folks, advertising. More of an experiment than a money-making scheme for sure, but do feel encouraged to click your way over to the advertisers’ sites. I do note that…
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Vint Cerf
Went to see a talk at Imperial’s Department of Computing* by Vint Cerf, currently Google‘s “Chief internet evangelist.” But Cerf’s roots are deep in tech: at Stanford in the seventies he co-invented the TCP/IP protocol which controls how information moves around the internet. I discovered that this was mostly a Google recruiting talk for Imperial’s…
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Wine, blogs, the media and me
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Readers may remember the ongoing saga of my bottle of Stormhoek Wine: they gave bottles away to any UK blogger who asked for one, hoping that we would say something — anything — about their wine. I, unfortunately, lost my bottle, but they patiently sent me another. And another, after I kvetched about the lack…
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Four things
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Today’s internet meme has been passed to me by Gia, so, yep, more bloggy rubbish for you, and more about me than you wanted to know. Four jobs I’ve had: University Lecturer and Astrophysicist Bookstore clerk Book, comic and music reviewer for New City News Atmospheric chemistry researcher at GISS, whose director has an excellent…
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One Million Dollars
Remember the news a few weeks ago about “The Million Dollar Homepage” — brainchild of Alex Tew, a student in Nottingham? He sold tiny ads at $1 per pixel and filled a million pixels, and therefore his wallet. The bandwagon-jumping has started: The Homepage4Science has hundreds of thousands of pixels available for “Science Products and…
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Traffic
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In a response to the question “what are your fave science/tech bloggers,” this blog is listed, with the comment “astrophysics and bloggy rubbish.” I’m lumped in with my colleagues over at Cosmic Variance, among others, as having “too much politics at the level typical of blogs (i.e., shrill idiocy) or mindless propogation of the same…
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New Header Graphic
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…from a photo of a park in Tokyo, a bit more in keeping with the name of this blog.
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Quick lunch-hour dispatch, all to be clarified soon: Last week I participated in a collaboration between the Dana Centre (the adult wing of the Science Museum) and some artists, entitled “Big Ideas.” Imperial College is to be leaving the University of London. Fantastic late-night Dinner last weekend, with (among many others!) Kosso, Rachel, Imp, Deirdre,…
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Live From 33,000 Feet over Siberia
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Alright, in-flight wi-fi internet is a luxury I do not need and can scarcely afford, but too cool to resist this once. Next stop, Tokyo.
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Question for the community: Blogs and Teaching
Any good suggestions for or case studies of using blogs as part of teaching? The obvious possibilities: I could blog all of my notes (although I’m not actually teaching any lecture courses this year). But that’s just using a slightly different medium for an old task (and it’s hard to translate math into html!). Or…
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