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Death of a bookstore
Borders has finally disappeared from UK streets, I must admit out of all the recent big closures this has been the one that I missed the most. It was a place that I’ve seen for the past 7 years of my life, nearly every day on my way to university. I have walked by it, through [...]Avatar! mini review
Just a little something about a big movie called Avatar, not to be confused with Avatar: The Last Airbender. One being a movie about invading another planet for it’s natural resource. The other about a kid with magical abilities. Summary – I liked it, a visual feast like all you can eat ice cream. Although let [...]Nearly Christmas and New Year (Cold. Very Cold)
What a finely freezing frosty day it is. Never have my bits (fingers!) felt like they were not there anymore. I can still feel the numbness in my tips. My laptop provides a comforting heat source in these cold days. Thankful for the poor temperature control on my GPU (thanks NVIDIA!) and my warm battery [...]Year one almost done
It’s been nearly one year since I’ve began my PhD, things have been hectic this past few weeks and months. We’ve had the Eusipco 2009 conference to organise and run which was very successful. Also, for me there has been a lot of work being going on with regards to my research. Next week will [...]Geek myths
Image via Wikipedia Ever seen those wacky moves with scientists/engineers/geeks that seem to produce instant result? The Myth: 24 is my favourite example where encryption is childsplay, and takes less than an hour to break, to the right person and everything works and is so seamless and batteries last an entire day with all their fancy phones that [...]Summer in Glasgow
Image by susanlee828 via Flickr There is always one bit of advice I give to people when they think of coming up north to Scotland, and specifically Glasgow and that is to bring an umbrella. Our city is a strange one, ever heard the song with the lyrics “All four seasons in one day …” this is [...]Samsung i8910 mini review
Image by tnkgrl via Flickr So, finally I managed to get a sim free Samsung i8910 HD or Player HD as it is known in France. Yep I have the french version running I8910XEFIF1 custom version dated 15/06/2009. My previous phone was a Nokia N82 Firstly, wow. The screen is beautiful and large with vivid colours and [...]A day at the races
After a hard days work I was much confused by the fact there seemed to be a racing match going on around George Square in Glasgow, I being a curious sort decided to record part of the event and whipped out my N82 taking a few pics and a video A few pics, not that I [...]Space school
I was thrilled to help out last minute at Space school at University of Strathclyde on Thursday, the week long event introduces secondary school students to the exciting world of space and ships and all the engineering/science/maths that it involves as an encouragement for more school kids to do those subjects at university level. Oh, [...]Wordpress 2.8 Test Post
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