Does a mobile phone work inside a 40ft container?
13th January 2009
I would have thought no because we have a Faraday cage here.
Wikipedia: Faraday cage
Exam cheating: pupils sit exams in Faraday cage
Software patent madness, utter
15th September 2008
Came across this patent for a Java application that seems to generate Rich Text output from a template and a data model. Are they having me on? I must have misread. Misunderstood. Is this a joke?
What do the good people of FreeMarker say to this?
And: would this patent prevent me from writing a Java application (or a set of Java classes) generating Rich Text output from my data?
Help! Please!
Elderberry liqueur, five bottles of
15th September 2008
We went out collecting elderberries yesterday to make liqueur of. The net outcome of the activity was a kitchen wonderfully sprinkled in blue colour plus five bottles and a jam jar of elderberry liqueur. Now we just have to wait a month or two for the stuff to mature…
The large hadron collider thing
11th September 2008
Big spider
11th September 2008
A rather big mechanical spider in Liverpool.
Milky river Inn
11th September 2008
On the weekend we went cycling in Bavaria. In the town of Rosenheim we crossed the river Inn. Where does this river get its light blue milky quality from? Have not been able to find out.
Japanese paper space planes
11th September 2008
Amazing. Heard about it a while ago. Can’t wait to see this happening.
