Andrew Taylor » General http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:02:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 When was the last time you saw the M25 like this? http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/blog/2009/08/when-was-the-last-time-you-saw-the-m25-like-this/ http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/blog/2009/08/when-was-the-last-time-you-saw-the-m25-like-this/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:06:25 +0000 ataylor http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/?p=191 Quite an incredible view I thought!

M25

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or thereabouts!

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There’s two campaigns – one to deregulate and one to “keep Sundays special” – websites at http://www.mysundaymychoice.com/ and http://www.keepsundayspecial.org.uk/ respectively.

I’m of mixed opinion on this topic – but what do you think? Post comments below, I’d be interested to hear.

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Warning though – it’s a non-IE site (they don’t even let you in with IE, quite bad IMHO).

http://www.profit42.com/index.php/2006/07/04/lifes-too-short-for-the-wrong-job/

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http://tinyurl.com/o9h4w

footballscoreboard1.jpg

]]> http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/blog/2006/06/microsoft-football-scoreboard/feed/ 1 Time travel – is it really possible? http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/blog/2006/02/time-travel-is-it-really-possible/ http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/blog/2006/02/time-travel-is-it-really-possible/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:46:27 +0000 ataylor http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/dev/?p=57 Thanks to Tim for passing this my way earlier – a very interesting article about the physics of time travel – could it ever happen?

http://www.quantumbiocommunication.com/projects/the-physics-of-time-travel-real-or-fable.html

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http://del.icio.us/heypresto

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Google Earth: the black helicopters have landed – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_earth_competition_results/

Google Earth menaced by WW2 bomber – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/09/google_lancaster/

It’s quite amazing what can be found using Google Maps and Google Earth. Makes me chuckle reading what the conspiracy theorists come up with, although some things can be quite believable.

]]> http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/blog/2006/01/google-earth-finds/feed/ 1 What drivel… http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/blog/2006/01/what-drivel/ http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/blog/2006/01/what-drivel/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:11:41 +0000 ataylor http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/dev/?p=39 So not only do we have to put up with Shayne Ward as Christmas number 1 (what a load of crap these talent shows are now) but we now have another series of Big Brother that I will undoubtedly hear about constantly from the media. It’s the most boring thing I’ve ever encountered but completely unavoidable – I guess that’s what Channel4 want.

Christmas numer 1 should have been Nizlopi as I’m sure many agree. At least he’s actually talented (ok so a lot of people seem to argue this point) but it’s the first (I think) to get to number 1 based predomently on sales from iTunes. Just goes to show how much download sales are now influencing music and allowing less well-known (and less well-off) artists to achieve. More @ http://www.jcbsong.co.uk

Sorry guys – needed a bit of a whinge tonight!

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Just upgraded WordPress to the newly released version 2. Looks the same this side but the admin site is full of funky new AJAX/DHTML features. If anything looks broken, let me know.

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