Archive for August, 2009
I am just going through the process of setting up an AdWords account on Google for use in promoting my business. The process seems straightforward enough and the proposition seems sound: only paying for clicks, not impressions, and I can control the maximum cost of each click and the total budget. However! Going through the [ READ MORE ]
We are all familiar with the diagrams and models of molecules proudly displayed by chemists, but now scientists working for IBM have, for the first time, imaged a molecule of pentacene. The classic model of pentacene looks like this. IBM used an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to produce the following image. What, you may ask, [ READ MORE ]
In this article Mitch Wagner suggests, in the article’s title no less, “Apple Snow Leopard Faces Windows 7 Fight”. This suggestion puzzled me[ READ MORE ]
There are few things in life important enough for me to venture out onto the British roads during a Bank Holiday weekend. The sense of horror that washes over me when I merely contemplate the plunge into the tarmac terror that is Bank Holiday traffic is enough to persuade me that, short of life threatening [ READ MORE ]
I promised my son a Mac laptop if he got in to college. He did. So there’s a £1000 to find in the next month. Not that I mind that. Not at all. He did his bit, so now I will do as I promised. He’s worth every penny. But damn, it’s been a long [ READ MORE ]
Well, I’ve been head-down for about a week and a half working on my Subversion training course. The task still looks Herculean, but at least the trail I’m leaving is looking longer than the trail ahead. In the past four days I have generated about one hour and a forty-five minutes of raw footage showing [ READ MORE ]
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