Monthly Archives: June 2007

Hamster

June 29, 2007 – 8:45 am

We couldn’t do this with our gerbils – not only are they too big, but they’d be through that piece of popcorn in about 4 seconds. We still only have 3 gerbils (I think, haven’t seen one of them yet this morning), and have named the fat one Pillsbury in the hopes that he is [...]

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Google Maps

June 28, 2007 – 8:31 pm

Awesome new feature in Google maps – drag and drop modifications of a calculated route, so that you can pass on maps that reflect the shortcuts you know that Google doesn’t.

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Pedantry

June 28, 2007 – 11:38 am

In which your shut-in author writes to the BBC when his pedant juices come to boiling point: Hi, I was reading your piece on the latest supercomputer, and was a little disappointed to read the following: “The latest number cruncher is capable of operating at so called “petaflop” speeds – the equivalent of 1,000 trillion [...]

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Parenthood

June 27, 2007 – 12:41 pm

We have 3 boy gerbils. To be honest I have to take the RSPCA’s word on this, because they’re not exactly hung like hamsters, but we’ve had no reason to doubt that. Until now. We currently have one normal gerbil, one who could probably stand to lose an ounce or two, and one who is [...]

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Driving

June 27, 2007 – 9:09 am

There’s a report on the BBC about Britain’s most dangerous roads. The first thing that struck me is that they’re all in the north of the country, probably because there isn’t enough space in the south to get up enough speed for a decent accident. A little study showed something a little more surprising. In [...]

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