The truth behind global warming?
Former British Chancellor and Secretary of State for Energy, Nigel Lawson, has written a book on Global Warming titled An Appeal To Reason, subtitled a cool look at global warming. In it he suggests that the current reaction to global warming is not a particularly rational one given the facts.
The thing that first caught my [...]
Microformat Pingbacks
Over at wp-fun I have bloggers to help me test out my Plugin that uses Microformats as part of the pingback process.
I am hoping for a reasonable response, enough to see whether this works, or is just folly.
The idea is to use the hReview Microformat to determine which parts of a post are relevant when [...]
This is a test post. Please ignore it
This is another test post.
Andrew at wp-fun has asked bloggers to help him him test out his Plugin that uses Microformats as part of the pingback process.
I am testing out the hreview pingback functions in the plugin to make sure they work. Then I will make sure the normal comments still operate effectively.
This is where [...]
Thoughts on Death
I watched an interesting programme a few nights ago about the perfect way to execute prisoners and that has got me thinking about my own views on the death penalty.
The programme explored the methods currently in use today and concluded fairly quickly that there are significant problems with all of them.
What was most interesting however [...]
Light hearted Xmas Fun
It being almost Christmas, and tomorrow being the last day that we need to pretend to be working, I thought I would tackle a more light hearted subject: The nature of consciousness.
The fun of philosophy is not in the answer it is in the question. When reading any text on the subject it is more [...]
Make Me A Muslim
Today I watched the second in a three part series called Make Me A Muslim. The idea behind the show is to introduce normal members of the British public to Islam and see how they take to some of the practices, or in many of the cases, non-practices.
The show is prefaced with a look at [...]