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BA strike a setup by Unite to give Brown election boost

The Unite union which has so far bankrolled Labour to the tune of £10,000,000 over the last few years and given nearly £1,000,000 in the last three months would appear to be setting BA staff up for mugs.

Charlie Whelan, sacked by Brown, but not really is the political director of Unite Read more...

Earthquake storm and a missing Black Hole

A man searches rubble for signs of life (AP) Today: "TOKYO (AP) — A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit off the eastern coast of Japan on Sunday, rattling buildings across a broad swath of the country, including the crowded capital."

It had occured to me to write about the seemingly large numbers of earthquakes over the last two to three months, Read more...

Question Time 11th March

I'd forgotten it was the Wimmin's edition but it wasn't much different from the normal ones. Three socialists and one right wing 'nutter' on the panel so no change there. Caroline Flint excelled herself in lying through her grotty teeth, Read more...

A detailed full moon rises over Tigard, Ore (AP) Constellation Moon landing programme cancelled (AP)

Salted Slug

The cosmos wants to kill your car

This is probably a new one for those of you not involved with the semiconductor industry or the associated sciences, but here we go.
First off, I have to introduce the concept of a Single Event Effect (SEE). This is what happens when a highly energetic particle (neutron), present in the environment, strikes a sensitive region of an electronic device - disrupting its correct operation. Read more...

The Large Hadron Collider, small step or giant leap?

Earth, Nov. 2009 I’m off to Oz tomorrow, and as they’re likely to fire it up whilst I’m away, I thought it best to fire out another LHC- post.

Last time I gave a run-through of the concepts and science involved with that there hadron smasher, but now I’m going to talk about some of the engineering involved Read more...

Single atom transistor

What these guys have done is very cool. Here’s the abstract.

Stephen Lathwell

The Transition Luton Hustings Speech

The newspapers stated I created a stir during Transition Luton with my introduction speech. So here's the script I prepared.

Anthropogenic or Man-Made Global Warming - Lies, Lies, Lies. Read more...

New Scientist about-face

Well, as said before, I don't like New (Nu) Scientist, as it has an uncritical bias for the Environmentalist 'Man-Made' Global Warming Agenda. So I was surprised to read on Page 3 of this week's edition a criticism of the IPCC. Read more...

Irish Politics are a Sobering Lesson

I would like to consider Ireland’s politics in juxtaposition to the BNP and other extremist organisations and Esther Rantzen, who are standing as candidates for election for Luton South MP.

Columnists

Industrial Unrest

Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda management have so far failed to produce an agreement.

PMQs live chat 10th March

Big Ben PMQs live chat 10th March:

Live chat PMQs with BBC2's The Daily Politics (no relation) from 11:30 am, join us to see what Brown has to say about the latest allegations that troops did not receive adequate support in terms of equipment and funding:

PMQs live chat

Live chat PMQs with BBC2's The Daily Politics (no relation) from 11:30 am: Read more...

Blogs

Twitter: New tool to share tweeting locations

Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.

A new feature unveiled Thursday gives Twitter users the option of including their location with the assorted musings posted on the Internet messaging service. Read more...

Bloggers' appeal against sentence rejected

A court in Azerbaijan has rejected the appeal of two bloggers who were sentenced to prison last year in a case that supporters say was politically motivated.

The bloggers are opposition activists in a country where independent media and opposition parties have faced persistent pressure. Read more...

Blogging eats PCs

Driver problems are relatively frequent, hard drive failures less so. The problem is that the two can easily be confused, especially if your disk takes a few days to die.

Of course once that happens, you're knackered and it's new disks and a full restore or reinstallation. . . . .

Like I haven't anything better to do.