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04Jul2008

flat white please

 
 
 
 
 
 

One of the minor pleasures of New Zealand was the Flat White. It’s essentially a cappuccino, but with a finer, creamer foam and a stronger mix that you get in Britain. I’ve missed them, but I may have found an alternative source…

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
01Jul2008

dancing, intercontinentally

 
 
 
 
 
 

Read on for the most amusing video I've seen all year...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27Jun2008

~980 double decker buses

 
 
 
 
 
 

For those of you who have trouble imaging how long 980 double decker buses would be, try imagining 1/38440th of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Alternatively, it’s ~10km. By pure coincidence, this just happens to be the distance that Eilidh ran last Sunday (Photo finish here) raising money for Yorkshire Cancer Centre.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27Jun2008

the science of digital preservation

 
 
 
 
 
 

I’ve not really had a chance to blog about what I do now, and how it’s different from what I did before. In a nutshell, I help create software for Digital Preservation. This is an interesting field, as it is full of problems that sound like they should have been solved, but haven’t…

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25Jan2008

interference from a past life

 
 
 
 
 
 

If you're having trouble sleeping, you could try downloading a highly exciting readable article called Lattice-switch Monte Carlo for binary hard-sphere crystals. If you don't have access to that journal, you can download the electronic pre-print here. Although that kind of thing has rather little to do with the work I do now, it was good fun and it's nice to see the work getting published.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24Jan2008

it must be hereditary

 
 
 
 
 
 

After threatening it for a number of years, my Dad has finally set up his own web site. Find out more at Ron Jackson - Now & Then 1939-2006.

 
 
 
 
 

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