the house of arguments
Excellent conversation with the eldest, E: E: You know that house on the TV where they have all those arguments ? N: Big Brother ? E: No, the Houses of Parliament
things that only i could care about
January 28th, 2009
extending soulver ?
There’s a rather neat screenshot of this Mac OS X calculator program over at the Soulver website. Particularly, it shows that it can (like Google) take plain English questions, such as: What is 20% off $35? which is rather neat, and would make a mockery of most of what my Maths homework consisted of if [...]
January 21st, 2009
solving cambridge congestion (and increasing inner-city trade)
Cambridge has a traffic problem. It’s not the worst in the country I’m sure, but it’s problematic enough that various expensive and almost certainly fatally flawed schemes have been proposed, and some even mostly built as a result. Whilst something as drastic as a one-way inner ring road would certainly be bold, it’d also be [...]
January 13th, 2009