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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Spot the rock

Found an update on the February 2019 asteroid at the BBC News site. Asteroid to miss - this time around has some less happy news though. Astronomers have ruled out an Earth impact from asteroid 2002 NT7 on 1 February 2019 - but they say, as yet, future collisions have not been

Rate this!

And now, the definitive "rate my..." sites: * Rate my kitten * What's better * Rate my Fish * Rate my Dorm On What's better, I just chose a fork over Galileo, Bugs Bunny over a black and white picture of a woman with skyscraper hair, a fractal

St. Louis Blog Bash 2

The King and I was an excellent choice of venue for the second St. Louis Blogbash. We missed Stone Cold Charles Austin, but the food was great and the company was too. Roger, it's good to finally meet the man behind the mouth, as it were. The night

Belated Friday Five

I haven't done a Friday Five for ages, but I like the look of this one. 1. How long have you had a weblog? Since January 10th 2002 1. What was your first post about? Whether the people I was teaching HTML and web design would like blogs

Hot or Not?

Now you can rate blogs based on a mere second's thought (if that), or rate them all a 3 before they even load. Is Quantum Tea hot or not? (But all the herd is moving that way Mummy, please can I go with them?) But surely a blog

The Google Report

Swiped the code to display the last 30 searches that arrived somewhere on this site, and put it here. There are some very strange people out there, searching for worrying things. "Lavender brew" sounds nasty, but several searches about the correct way to make and brew tea have

Praise the geeks

Today is sysadmin day. It is a pretty thankless task. No-one notices that the network is running fast, or that you can get to all the printers you need, or that email is working. Only when things break down do you get noticed. There are some telling comments to

Coding thoughts

Wrote something yesterday that turned into an essay in the Thoughts section of the site, called Code Conventions. I was thinking about code as a conversation between two or more developers separated by space and/or time. My code is written so I can pick it up in 6 months

Church-like substances

Midwest Conservative Journal referred to the Church of England yesterday as "I Can't Believe It's Not Roman Catholicism" and it makes me laugh every time I read it. Rowan Williams is the new Archbishop of Canterbury, for what it's worth. He'

Beta Group: New Confidence

Philippians 3:1-11 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is

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