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Month September 2007

Sunglasses

Classic: seven minutes of Horatio Caine’s pre-titles one-liners from CSI: Miami:

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Carbon Neutral

In the past year, I have flown 21,714.3 miles (including my flight home in a fortnight). That has, apparently, created 3.96 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

That’s not a good number. We’re supposed to be trying to reduce the amount of CO2 we pump into the atmosphere, not create more.

So today, I offset my flights’ carbon emissions. [...]

Headlines

The three main stories on BBC News right now:

When, where and how did we get to a place where, dare I say it, personal tragedies such as these are considered more important international news than hurricanes, the Middle East, Russia, cholera…?

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not belittling the tragedies that have befallen these three families [...]

Umm… so much for “coming soon”

Three weeks ago I said I was going to write an update on my activities over the previous three weeks. That never happened. Oops.

There are some good reasons (well, reasons, anyway): I’ve been very busy. I’ve just finished working twelve days straight at Enzyme (lots of overtime pay – yay!); I’m still trying to write [...]