Review : The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

I saw Mr Harris at a disappointing IQ² debate recently — disappointing partly as his opponent seemed to either agree with most of what he was saying and partly because he was obviously very jetlagged. Really it was part of a book tour for The Moral…

Why you want to be an engineer (comics)

Review : Sex at Dawn

This is a very interesting and fairly wide-ranging book on the anthropology of our human ancestors and some of our closest simian cousins. It is somewhat deliberately misleading by having “SEX” on the cover which, like the light and airy style of writing, is aimed at bringing in more of the…

Moxyland

Can anyone remember who lent me Moxyland (the book)? I think it was Claire but I’m not really sure. Anyway — they can have it back, I didn’t make it beyond p30…

Victoria and Albert Museum — Part 1

Foolish me — I thought we could turn up and see the whole thing in 4 or 5 hours. Turns out it’s pretty big y’know — have to go back for more another day…

Meanwhile, the most interesting things I learnt on today’s visit were that all kinds of cultures have flogged…

Doctor Who : Season 3

Smith and Jones : Forgotten how much I like Martha Jones — a strong intelligent companion even if, *sigh* she falls in love with the Dr again (at least that doesn’t happen next season), “Crossing the path of established events is strictly forbidden — except for cheap tricks, first note…

“Meh” — or my thoughts on the Nokia / Microsoft alliance

Now that it’s all officially public I can write about what’s been happening at work. The memo which everyone has seen, almost certainly deliberately leaked in my opinion, was out a week or more ago and there has been a vast mess of…