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@bengoldacre How do we square Davies criticism of press and libel laws with the accusations against yourself. Both problems, opposite sides. #
@erykah_ While since I took it, but was both more liberal and more left than Ghandi. Scared to take it again, may have become more rightwing #
Political Compass: Economic Left/Right: -7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62
Well I [...]

A few thoughts this week, mainly as none of them were substantial enough for a full blog post.
Swine Flu
Jumping in first on the topic which is most likely to generate general interest, I’d once more like to point people at the post I wrote covering the H5N1 virus. Anton Vowl, over at ‘The Enemies of [...]

I first played around with the political compass a few years ago, and was vaguely worried that I may have betrayed my old self, and have darted to the far right without quite realising it. As it happens I haven’t, and indeed I think the score is somewhat more extreme in the other direction than [...]

@RagnarTornquist Excellent, thank you. #
Disappointed that two anti-bodies have ceased binding, everything else looked so nice as well. #fb #
@blainetmartin It stands for facebook, and allows selective updating of facebook status from twitter. (Using Selective Twitter status app) #
Gah. Twitter tools keeps generating multiple digests, two last week, three this week. #
@Optimaximal Is it a [...]

The four familiar words swam in his mind’s eye as the world remained frozen around him, that last ever present option both seductive and terrifying in its promises. Attempt number two wasn’t so bad; he had failed, but he did make the reserve list, and things were going remarkably well with Sarah. He couldn’t bring himself to accept it though, he needed a job, and in the current climate that could take a while, even for someone with his skills. Besides, he could always come back, now he just needed to be as far away as possible. He reached far back, not even looking at the dates as they flashed past.

February 12^th 1990, Little Wadeway

He turned inside out as the world past through him and then righted itself; a pause; then noise. The excited babble and shouts of children crashed over him as he was pushed and jostled by their movements as he found himself in a much smaller body than he had been occupying moments earlier. He was stood in the playground of Little Wadeway C. of E. Primary School and a glance downwards revealed that he was dressed in a bright red wax raincoat and a scruffy pair of Velcro trainers. How far back had he gone?

@AmnestyUK Uhh, I don’t thing your Panic on the streets of London… Bangkok, Chisanu… went where you intended. av5epk links to porn. #
Amused by the fact wordpress decides to process wordpress tags within my tweets. I now have a lifestream in the middle of my twitter summary #
Yay, newswipe in 10 minutes. Seems to be [...]

In attempting to ‘combat terrorism’ the British government has been promoting fears of its own, namely fears of terrorism. All too often this has been in the form of encouraging the British public to be suspicious of everything around them, even going as far as promoting fear of photographers. Most disturbingly, this has been accompanied [...]

One of the benefits of using an extremely popular blogging platform, such as Wordpress is the diverse range of plugins available. This allows for the easy addition of new features to a blog, and the latest versions of Wordpress provide excellent tools to make it easy to install plugins and keep them updated. In this [...]

Bah, silly antibodies, binding tot the wrong things. If you were in a person your host would be dead by now. #
Bah! Booking train tickets is the biggest lottery ever. Managed to get save £50 by splitting my ticket half-way. #
@charltonbrooker Very good. Have you heard the term ‘Reverse Ferret’ by any chance? http://everything2.com/node/1942475 #
Wow, [...]

The end of my PhD is rapidly approaching, and suddenly it no longer seems some distant event. By the time Christmas comes around I very much hope to be out of the lab, and to have a good chunk of my thesis written up. However all of this means getting the lab work finished, or [...]