things that only i could care about

Holiday vs Christmas

“Happy Holidays” Is Offensive by Bill Barnwell: http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnwell/barnwell53.html An amusing read and a dig at what happens when PC runs amok. What is more interesting is how dumb PC legionaries are in thinking that hiding Christmas under Holiday is actually helping anything, as explored by Chuck George: What’s the Big Fuss about ‘Happy Holidays’ by [...]

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thermodynamics and four year olds

I was trying my best to answer the neighbours daughter as she came out with the longest stream of questions I’ve ever heard anyone have about an oil filled radiator. Skirting around Specific Heat Capacities and Conservation of Energy[1] (but laying the foundations, should she ask later), things don’t quite finish as I planned: H: [...]

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touting for work

I’ve been a bit remiss in terms of keeping my CV (or resumé, if you prefer) up-to-date, but it’s now on-line in all it’s hacked up CSS glory. I would prefer that initial contact be via email, and if the content doesn’t suit a normal or HTML/Rich Text message, I absolutely, positively and categorically prefer [...]

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i love photoshop. i hate photoshop

How to Add a Border to a Picture in Photoshop – eHow.com: http://www.ehow.com/how_6395_add-border-picture.html Ok, so I’m only talking about Photoshop Elements 3 (or 2) here, and without it I doubt I’d have been so happy to give up my 35mm film camera, but boy does it make some simple things hard. For some reason, with [...]

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