Bang Goes the Theory is the best science programme on television. And series 3 starts tonight.

Microblogging finally has me in its grips. Well, sort of. I succumbed to creating an account on Thursday night, and yesterday morning I thought of something suitably unimportant to write as a first, unfollowed “dent”. The open-source angel on my left shoulder told me to go with Identi.ca, where my username is obfpen.

It appears that the internet has run out of adjectives, and awesome is the only one left. Today I discovered a new use for it.

In the library this afternoon, I tried connecting to the internet but wasn’t having much luck. The conversation I had with the librarian about it reminded me of how other people see computers.

Back in May, the Ubuntu Manual project asked for people to submit bug reports to help improve the second edition, and, as an incentive, entry into a prize draw for a printed copy of the manual was offered to anyone submitting ten or more confirmed bugs. Lucky me: I won!

School children often complain that what they’re learning will be of no use to them in the real world. Even I did occasionally. But I’ve finally found a real-world use for some of the geometry at least: in redecoration.

I’ve always had trouble when starting to write something new.  There are several reasons for this, but not the least of which is that there’s just something fundamentally difficult for me in the process of turning my starbursty thoughts into a linear stream of text