I’ve been wanting to try making a video review for a while, and decided to start with one of my new Sony Reader. It was a mixed success; sadly the camera cut off the last minute or so, but it was just a quick summary at that point so I thought I&...
Posted by Matt Gemmell at Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:10:00 +0100
Just a very small blog post tonight. The band and I played a fun show last night at Nice’n'Sleazys in Glasgow for our backing singer Rachael’s graduation. There were a few other bands playing as mentioned in the previous blog to this one, a...
Posted by Dave Hughes at Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:49:30 +0100
Following an impromptu game of nighttime beach football at the GWDAW meeting earlier in the year, it was decided that there should be a more organised (and daylight) match at Amaldi. A group of 16 of us, made up from Europeans (a large chunk of whom we...
Posted by Matt Pitkin at Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:24:00 +0100
As with all major meeting's this one had a conference dinner - it was, rather impressively, held in the American Museum of Natural History. The highlight of the night was getting to go into the planetarium there and being shown a fly through of their v...
Posted by Matt Pitkin at Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:58:00 +0100
I've just got back (well part of the way back) from a few days spent in New York for the Amaldi 8 meeting (the last one was in Sydney and I got to have a little holiday afterwards, but this time I've headed straight back). This meeting is entirely grav...
Posted by Matt Pitkin at Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:30:00 +0100
I am currently sitting in Terminal 1 of Heathrow Airport waiting for my connecting flight back to Glasgow after flying in from New York. Unfortunately I have a 6ish hour wait in Heathrow. I tried getting put in an earlier flight, but apparently if you ...
Posted by Matt Pitkin at Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:24:00 +0100
The Scottish Parliament spends most of its time on the unionist parties blaming every problem on the SNP’s “single-minded thirst for independence”, and the SNP blaming every problem on London conspiracies. So when something gets passe...
Posted by David Alexander Russell at Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:07:03 +0100
Now, there’s a title to get the blog spammers ejaculating in to their keyboards! I’ve just spent the last weekend on the megabus to and from London where I played my second Lexapalooza festival. It was a marvelous day, and all for Breast Ca...
Posted by Dave Hughes at Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:36:26 +0100
So, my travels to the US continue to provide fun times. Today I have been traveling out to the Probing Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves meeting at Penn State. To get there I've been traveling through New York, and unfortunately I'm still in New Y...
Posted by Matt Pitkin at Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:36:00 +0100
I’ve been analysing my server access logs for the past year or so recently, and I’m pleased to note that a lot of you have been downloading my Cocoa source code. It’s brilliant to see the code being used in so many nifty applications ...
Posted by Matt Gemmell at Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:30:00 +0100