Monthly Archives: March 2006

Aviation fuel is not taxed at the moment.. so one of the biggest contributors to CO2 production has no economic brake on it! Everyone else on the planet is paying the environmental cost of all flights that everyone else takes! … Continue reading →

Another small thing you can do – here, now, today – to help the environment is sign up to help with the Climate Prediction experiment at http://www.climateprediction.net/ This is another one of those distributed processing concepts where spare computational power … Continue reading →

My Other Half is only just realising this fact – it is something I myself only gradually became aware of over many years – but the scruffier and untidier someone is then the nicer they are (as a general rule … Continue reading →

Another theory of mine is that anyone who is a humanist is a better person than someone who is good because their religion tells them to be. To me a humanist is someone who acts in a decent and kind … Continue reading →

The fundamental problem with.. gun ownership on a massive scale I read a blog recently that contained some excellent points in favour of gun ownership and against gun control. It was excellently written and raised points I had never considered … Continue reading →

I tend to think about things a lot – some would say too much. I think about people I despise – like Aryan or white supremacists – and think about the many, many different ways in which they are wrong. … Continue reading →

It was a cold Saturday morning in November 1998, and I was on my way to meet Bryan Talbot at the Bluecoat Chambers in Liverpool. It is a weird thing to meet your hero, and I was filled with anticipation: … Continue reading →

Compulsory water meters are just great for the environment… but they don’t go nearly far enough. Grey water recycling schemes use the water from your bath or shower and sink to flush your toilet. Do you honestly what water is … Continue reading →