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Monday, March 07, 2005
Everything hums. Aren’t you sick of the ever present throbbing from everything electrical?
I clean my teeth in the morning with my electrical toothbrush and I feel good because my dentist tells me this is the way to do it. But I don’t like my head vibrating as the little motor drives the brizzles around my molars!
The worst of it is that the cheapest computers that we have in the department make deafening unsynchronised humming from their cooling fans.
When I place a CD in the drive of my Apple laptop, the sound is similar to the one heard from our vacuum cleaner.
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Posted on 07 Mar 2005 around 9pm •
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Saturday, January 29, 2005
When I made this sculpture in 1986, the digital camera was just an idea!
This piece of work (aluminium, stainless steel cable and polyster sail) has stood up to numerous gales, storms and solar intensity for the past 19 years. The ultra-violet rays and the pollution in the air has caused the sails to fade and weaken and they have been replaced some 5 times. More on this here
Posted on 29 Jan 2005 around 6pm •
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004
I have found myself straining my singing voice at the carol service. Shall I go high or shall I go low? Is it just me or are many carols pitched in a difficult key for the ‘once a year’ singer?
Many of the hymns and carols presented in the hymn book are written in the Victorian period and one familiar carol is ‘In the bleak midwinter’ by Christina Rosetti. Her poem is set to music by Gustav Holst.
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Posted on 21 Dec 2004 around 10pm •
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Friday, December 17, 2004
It seems that yesterday Google were forcing us to search through the UK domain. If you went to http://www.google.com and you were in the UK then you got diverted to http://www.google.co.uk.
Looking again today, I see that there has been a slight shift of strategy. They must still be detecting that we come from the UK because, the google home page shows a ‘go to Google.uk’ option.
There is more news about Google and it relates to eBooks .....
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Posted on 17 Dec 2004 around 6pm •
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
I saw this Remington Typewriter (circa 1920) during a visit to the Zennor museum and thought I should take a look at the history of the QWERTY keyboard.
The QWERTY layout was invented by Christopher Sholes in 1874.
A good explanation of his rationale for the layout will be found here
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Posted on 25 Aug 2004 around 1pm •
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