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Werner Heisenberg, having been delayed at the airport on his way to an important physics conference, is speeding down the road in his hire car when he sees a flashing blue light in his mirror and hears that familiar siren noise. He wearily pulls over, winds down the window, and shortly the police officer approaches.… Continue reading Physics joke

Yuletide in the Elbeno household has been quite low-key this year: just a chance to relax and enjoy the tree lights and decorations. Presents were less of a mountain and more of a molehill – we're lucky enough not to want for anything, and we didn't have the time or inclination to be excessively commercialised… Continue reading Having a cool Yule

…and you know what that means: another edition of the world's hardest quiz. Good luck!

Happy solstice to all. My calendar says it's the first day of Winter, but I'm not fooled by that.

LiveJournal – with the addition of the “schools” thing it's turning into a bit of friendsreunited.com. I've added two friends: and based on the fact that we all went to the same secondary school. I wonder who they are? Odds are I knew once upon a time, since he was actually in my year.

Newsweek reports Google's Ten Golden Rules. A marvellous advert for Google? But I am not swayed by the advertising. Let's pretend for a second that Google is not a public company and therefore not suffering a potential financial conflict of interest in following these rules. 1) Hire by committee. Well, most tech companies do this… Continue reading Google spin

Who Love Freedom More? writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post. The US has a constitution to limit the power of government and protect the individual. The UK has no written constitution and a system of government where on the face of it, the individual is at the mercy of the sovereign state. Despite (or… Continue reading UK vs USA

I don't have 12 LJ friends. So you only get to see 4 days' worth. But it's strangely apt even so. My True Love gave to me… 11 s a-waddling. 8 s a-glaring. 6 s a-laughing. 2 hamster s.

The other day I was watching Adam's Rib with Mrs Elbeno. One of the many old movies we enjoy via the Blockbuster-Netflix-alike service. (You only have time to watch a finite number of movies in your life; why watch modern rubbish just because it's recent when you could be watching classic films of the 40s?)… Continue reading Audio memory

There are no clocks in this room. None that tell the right time. The clock on the desk shows 6.50 (stopped). My iPod shows 08:24 as does my PC. Both clearly wrong (but timestamping this post). Two more stopped clocks show 3.14 and 6.00 respectively. A stopped pocket watch shows 6.46. My watch (which shows… Continue reading Timeless