Al’s Blog

Once you’ve read a book, why not swap it with someone rather than let it gather dust? There are other swapping sites on the net, but www.readitswapit.co.uk doesn’t work with a points system so it you can request other books as soon as you’ve uploaded your own list.
I just uploaded a bunch of my books [...]

Just how do IKEA name things? Here’s how, apparently… http://www.margaret-marks.com/Transblawg/archives/000302.html
[via surferbill]

A nice story about a game show whose random number generator, wasn’t quite random.

BP’s Thunderhorse platform still listing precariously - pictures

In July 2002 DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the USA announced a competition to push the development of autonomous vehicles. The aim was to build a vehicle capable of travelling 150 miles without human intervention across the Mojave desert in Arizona.
This happened in March 2004 and there’s a hilarious summary of what happened [...]

Well, i’ve finally gone and got myself a blog account. I expect i’ll be posting links, articles, code snippets etc, and general things i’m up to. Either that or i’ll forget about this and not post for ages :o)