UK and Irish ministers will today sign an agreement that could see some of the world’s largest wind turbines built across the Irish midlands.
Stretching more than 600 feet (180 metres) in the air, the towers are set to generate energy for millions of UK homes from 2017.
The companies involved say the Irish power is a [...]
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Windy Miller - Irish edition - it’s like a Leprechaun rotisserie!
In the event of failure
Do you know much about data communications networking structures?
The most common type of network you are likely to come across is is what is called a client-server network. The local device, the phone in your pocket, the computer on your desk at work, register themselves with a big fat central machine, and as the client [...]
Alan Turing
Today would be Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. Alas it never transpired. He died in still debatable circumstances when he was in his prime. Was he a great pure mathematician? Yes, I’d put him almost as high as Gödel and that is like comparing a footballer to Pele. Both of course were not normal men. Turing [...]
Thanks Fred!
This morning I stumble out of bed and out the house to buy some ciggy-wigs. Upon my return my wife has found a jiffy-bag from Suffolk pushed through the letterbox (which by the way is like Arkwright’s till. It contains some CDs and a letter from commentator Fred Thrung (not his real name)). So thanks [...]
Transformative Technologies
And Google will have a record of every single incident Do you really want them to have that?
H/T Next Big Future
Tell me this is an April Fool. Please!
The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon.
Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time.
The Home Office says the move is key to tackling crime and [...]
Such Things As Communism Could only Dream of…
Cats seems to think this is sinister. It ain’t got nothing on this though. It’s a long article but well worth reading in full. I’m excerpting bits to give the flavour.
On the surface, Shustorovich’s project is a public-spirited attempt to bring Russia’s education system into the digital era. In the 2010-11 academic year, around 300 [...]
BoJo on Facebook…
For the record I’m on Facebook and essentially it seems to me a method by which people I didn’t get on with at school pretend they are my friends. Whatever! I appreciate how it works and indeed what it is for.
Boris Johnson doesn’t but wishes we had a similar “get-up and go” attitude to [...]
Will the agony never end?
I heard on the car radio yesterday that ITV1 is reprising “Dancing on Ice”.
Here is the misfit’s parade of hasbeens and neverbeens who shall risk broken ankles for our “entertainment”…
1. Charlene Tilton.
Lucy Ewing from Dallas.
2. Corey Feldman.
Former “Goonie” and “Lost Boys” vampire hunter from the age when Coreys ruled the world. You might know [...]
Put a Li(e) in the tank…
One of my themes here is the extent to which the mainstream media can get anything technical spectacularly wrong.
Bolivia has vast reserves of lithium, seen as the green energy fuel of the future, which it wants to exploit on its own. But the lithium is locked underneath a 10,000 sq km salt flat.
Except it [...]
60%-90% drivel
The UK could be primarily powered by a secure and inexhaustible supply of renewable energy by 2030 without the need for new nuclear power plants, according to a report commissioned by WWF.
And if you have a cow you don’t need I have some magic beans…
Between 60% and 90% of the nation’s electricity could come [...]
C:\> @ 30
Yesterday MS-DOS had it’s 30th birthday!
I remember when it was all CP/M round here. Well not really but I do recall using one of those God-awful Amstrad PCW256s with the green screen and utterly non-standard 3″ disks. Almost everything Amstrad ever made was maliciously non-standard. When they took over the Spectrum from Sinclair they [...]
Starlite
The gentleman feels for something in his jacket pocket. It’s a nice suit, and it is accompanied by a suitably gentlemanly bow-tie. The effect is sartorially unusual but not too much. What will come out of the pocket, though, is more than unusual. It is unparalleled and almost unbelievable. ‘Here,’ says Maurice Ward, handing over [...]
Green Kills
Families buying meat for barbecues are unlikely to be aware of their food’s controversial links because the labels on packaging will be no different from normal meat.
Note the “families” there and think of the children! As to the labelling that’s because it isn’t different to normal meat. And as to barbecues the same advice applies [...]
Lego, build thyself!
This is supercool…
Now if you could get a Lego 3D printer to build Lego 3D printers…
I’ll get Igor onto it tomorrow.
