Jasp’s Blog

The problem with finding work you are pasionate about is that it begins to take over your life. When asked to describe yourself, your job comes first. I think of myself as a Scientist before most other things.
Yet there is still the tedium, and I’m sure this is true for any job. Scientists with the [...]

I appear to be having slight troubles with downloading of exe files. I am currently looking into this problem and it shall be addressed shortly.
ETA: I have contact my host and am waiting to hear from them.
EETA: I managed to find out a work-around my end, so all is now working. It seems [...]

I recently did some work at the Edinburgh Science Festival, which attempts to engage the public with science, particularly young children. While I’d like to say that this work was voluntary, it wasn’t, and this underlies something which I see as a far more serious problem.
The supposed aim of the Science Festival is to make [...]

With the BBC reporting a possible case of H5N1 found in a dead swan in Scotland (Only a few miles from me incidently) I thought I’d post a few thoughts I’ve been having.As yet it hasn’t been confirmed that this is a case of H5N1, but just of the same family of viruses.
As well as [...]

London

Originally uploaded by James Glover.

A month ago I was contacted by Schmap, who informed me that my photo had been shortlisted for inclusion in the Schmap London Guide, a free travel guide availible on their website. As I had released my photo under a Creative [...]

The main ‘difficulty’ in the whole process is selecting the hardware, actually putting it together is fairly easy and I had my system up and running in under two hours. (It also worked first time) I recommend picking up a couple of magazines to get up to date on the hardware availible, expecially if you [...]