“Through Irish Eyes” [pdf] is a new report from the British Council Ireland which analyses the Irish perceptions of the U.K. Further coverage is found on both sides: BBC, Irish Times [subscription]. The report concludes that the relationship between the two countries is improving after decades of obvious problems (or 800 year of oppression as [...]

This is a little old but back in January a USAF F-15 accidently dropped a practice bomb over Yorkshire. Frankly, this isn’t such a big deal compared to previous blunders I can recall hearing about during a visit to one of the many bombing ranges in Norfolk. [Actually, isn't the whole of Norfolk a bombing [...]

Apparently my phone can be Bluesnarfed. Only it can’t because I never use Bluetooth despite working on personal area networks and ubiquitous computing. mmm… maybe I should do something about that.

Stephen Wolfram’s tome is now online although it’s not the best online reading experience – each page is just an image linked together with a contents page and next/previous buttons. Still it’s probably easier than trying to wrestle with the 3 or 4 inch hardback copy. I’d like to have read this book but the [...]

Here’s a wonderful articulation of everything bad, ugly or painful with ‘C’. It’s interesting because yesterday I discovered BTnodes. Small autonomous Bluetooth modules which look extremely useful as they support scatternets and (in rev3) a seperate low-power radio. Ok, maybe they’re not exciting to you but they have possibly advanced my PhD by a year [...]

OK, so this seems to be the season to rubbish Microsoft’s SPOT watch and it is a ridiculously easy target. I’ll throw in my own wisdom… Attention all you European, Asian, African, South American residents or anyone who doesn’t live within one of the 100 US or 13 canadian cities listed here: Don’t even listen [...]

$16billion to kick start the Mars program? Why not just wait another century and see our own planet turn into a Martian wasteland? Surely there is nothing like the life, beauty and natural wonders of Earth for us on Mars. We can’t even breathe there. The great habitats of our own planet, and the wildlife [...]