“Are you drunk ?” “No.” “You swore to me there was no more booze down there!” “I’m not fucking drunk!” shouted Gerry miserably. “I ha...

A 1.5kW solar photovoltaic system in Melbourne is supposed to generate an average of 5.4kWh/day. Does it? My 1.5kW solar PV system has...

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock I’ll summarise the situation: February 22, 2011 : the Christchurch Earthquake kills 185 peop...

In other startling news surrounding the Melbourne Cup, it seems that the time for the horses to run the 3200m race is getting steadily less...

The clever quote doing the rounds at present was posted on MetaFilter by   blue_beetle  on Au gust 26, 2010 : “ If you are not paying for it...

The following problem can be solved the easy way or the hard way: "Two trains 200 miles apart are moving toward each other; each one i...

Unsurprisingly, being a closet geek, I love browsing through New Scientist magazine. Months and months ago now I submitted a question to a ...

Here’s a sample of the rubbish that occupies my brain at 2:30am, unable to sleep. First some background, in March 2006 I was walking with tw...