An unsolicited email from The Information Portal for the Public Sector promises amusement:

"We can't be anti everything!"
The UK Government's new Energy Adviser, David MacKay, gives a sound bite-free overview of the sustainable energy debate

Love the exclamation point. Love even more the t...

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Stupid, I know, to resume blogging with a nerdy Skype tip, but this is handy. I wanted to print a chat,¹ but couldn’t find a way to do so. Then I read at the Skype forum that you just type /htmlhistory where you would normally type text into the chat, and it opens the chat in a Browser window. F...

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21 September 2017: A bilious despatch from an international conference in preparation for the 2009 conference of the UNFCCC.

Boffins are worrying that when Australian farmers can sell carbon sequestration, they might prefer to earn more doing that than growing wheat. That will increase the world p...

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I am deeply grateful to Darwin College Cambridge for organising a wonderful set of Darwin Lectures in this the year of Darwin excess. I’m even more grateful that they recorded them in reasonably high quality and made them available over the intertubes. And not just available, but easily availa...

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It has been hectic this past week, hence the lack of activity here. I took the time this weekend to upgrade to the new version of WordPress¹ and for the first time ever felt let down. On another blog the entire process just stopped. I carried on and hand-rolled it, because I was in the middle of t...

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