Posted in Computer Stuff on May 30th, 2009 | Viewed 448 times
If you have played around with test installations of other operating systems on your computer on other partitions or disks than your main OS, you may have run into boot problems when removing these other test installations. If you have, like I have, had Linux installations, you may be left with a non-working GRUB boot [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on May 29th, 2009 | Viewed 453 times
This story popped up both in my New Scientist and my Panda’s Thumb feeds today. New Scientist: Christians battle each other over evolution Panda’s Thumb: But it’s not about religion … So basically, we have the Discovery Institute, the pseudo-scientific Seattle organization, promoting Intelligent Design, who has launched a new website, Faith+Evolution. There they ask: [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion on May 24th, 2009 | Viewed 975 times
So, Michael Behe is still at it, 13 years after his book, Darwin’s Black Box, which has been a complete failure in proving Intelligent Design. Apparently a recent article in Science (or read the blog article) has caused Behe to write a letter in response, which Science did not wish to publish, naturally. Instead Behe [...]
Posted in Sci-Fi, TV-Shows on May 23rd, 2009 | Viewed 2445 times
Finally got around to watch the entire three seasons of the original Star Trek show from 1966 to 1969 (I have just seen random episodes before). If you like Star Trek, it is well worth watching. It gives you a lot of back story for the Star Trek universe and the full extent of Roddenberry’s [...]
Posted in Coding on May 19th, 2009 | Viewed 370 times
Was writing a formula sheet for my quantum mechanics exam today, and needed to maximize usage of my available space on a piece of A4 paper. So I googled some solutions to get LaTeX to do just that. In addition to using the /tiny command to make small text of course. Firstly I needed to [...]
Posted in Movies, Sci-Fi on May 17th, 2009 | Viewed 158 times
Yeah, so I went to see the new Star Trek movie last night. If you haven’t seen it, and are planning to, you may not want to read any further as there may be a few spoilers. Now, I’m not a trekkie, although I have seen more or less everything of Star Trek. I liked [...]
Posted in Coding on May 17th, 2009 | Viewed 211 times
After spending most the afternoon coding php scripts for a new website, I decided to just stick with WordPress afterall. There are many things I don’t like about it, but I managed to find plugins for the stuff I was missing. Not to mention the animated Tag Cloud I saw the other day. Looks fancy, [...]
Posted in Random on May 6th, 2009 | Viewed 295 times