Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Touching the past
I’ve just returned home after an evening at St John’s College where we had a small supper following my talk at the Computer Lab this afternoon – it will be online soon, by the way. It was a delightful event, especially because Maurice Wilkes joined us.
And I recorded an AudioBoo on the way home..
Listen!
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
The 10 Cultures Problem
It’s fifty years since CP Snow gave his famous lecture on The Two Cultures at the Senate House in Cambridge. Tomorrow I make my contribution to the University’s 800th anniversary celebration with a lecture on ‘The 10 Cultures Problem’ at the Computer Laboratory.
And it’s featured on the University home page. No pressure then…
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:
Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future – ReadWriteWeb – If it delivers what it promises this will be vey good indeed
Machinima at the Cambridge Film Festival – Matt Kelland on our plans for Machinima in Cambridge this autumn
Opera companies | Music for the masses | Economist.com [...]
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Computer, heal thyself
[This is also on the WattWatt site, an online community for anyone concerned with energy efficiency]
Like every other product of the advanced manufacturing capabilities of a long-industrialised society the computers that surround us – and, for the pacemaker wearers among us, that we have taken into our bodies – carry an environmental cost.
Silicon may be [...]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Blazing Saddles: best bike shop in Cambridge
I was distraught when Drakes bike shop on Hills Road closed as I’d been buying cycles there for over twenty years, and I had always found them reliable, reassuring and efficient. Fortunately I’ve found an alternative – Blazing Saddles on Cherry Hinton Road.
And they are wonderful….last Friday I was cycling in to the railway [...]
