Well, it's like this: I'm going to try and use coveredinbees as the information repository for my PhD. As outlined in 'about CIB' , only time will tell if this is a good idea. Perhaps there's a good reason why I haven't heard of anyone else doing it. ...

Story - dan - 18/12/2007 - 18:00 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

After suggesting to my supervisor that I might do some flash visualisation work to help communicate ideas from my PhD, it seemed only logical to get a graphics tablet. Capitalism, being the wonderful thing it is, now means these things are dirt cheap. A ...

Blog entry - dan - 14/02/2008 - 18:31 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Just been re-reading my wibble about romanesques and noted that a strand of human DNA is about a metre long. The rough number of cells in a human body is 50 to 75 trillion cells . So - presuming only 30 trillion of those actually have DNA (I ...

Blog entry - dan - 15/02/2008 - 20:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Just come out of a lecture by Peter Marshall , author of Demanding the Impossible: a History of Anarchism . (Note the link to Amazon. Tsk.) Two things: first, an old friend from Sheffield had a copy of this book. Many years back, one of her fr ...

Blog entry - dan - 12/03/2008 - 20:14 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to get a passport to get pregnant to boil an egg to get to the moon to digest food to walk a mile to get to Mars for hair to grow to build muscle to get a US passport "How long does it take..." in Firefox qu ...

Blog entry - dan - 12/03/2008 - 22:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Macro: Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth - so there's hope yet for polluting our atmosphere even more. Gosh, that'd be quite a mission. Laws of gravity wrong...? Probably not - but as I've written about e ...

Blog entry - dan - 20/03/2008 - 16:03 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Obama wins the democratic nomination and ends his first speech as nominee thus: Now, the other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of policies and positions, and that is a good thing. That is a debate I look forward ...

Blog entry - dan - 04/06/2008 - 09:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

import uk.myGeography.* ; import uk.childhood.cycling.* ; import parents.washingRoutines.* ; import parents.larkin.* ; import uk.job.random ;     public class Morning impleme ...

Blog entry - dan - 08/08/2008 - 16:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments