Monthly Archives: February 2007

I’m a Climate Criminal doing time…

Last weekend I flew from Cork to Stansted to see my mum for her birthday. The feeling of being a ‘climate criminal’ was worse than ever and the disparaging looks from various friends since has been quite interesting…. But – I’m paying back for my crimes! No daft carbon sequestration nonsense round here. I simply [...]
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No need to keep your hard disks cool?

This research from Google on hard disk failure rates really surprised me: The report said that there was a clear trend showing “that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates”.
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Heinberg on Sustainability

An axiom is a self evident truth. The wonderful Richard Heinberg has written 5 axioms of sustainability. This is a much needed reclaiming of this abused term. (I shared an early taxi back from the SA conference dinner with Richard – he was very jetlagged but his quiet and modest intellect still shone through as [...]
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Soil Association Conference 2007

A couple of weeks ago I went to Cardiff to the Soil Association Conference. I meant to write a comprehensive report. Time has meant I only managed a brief review for the Organic College students. The main thing I want to do here is congratulate Rob for being part of the inspiration for the conference [...]
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VLC media player

a few people have mentioned recently that they can’t play certain video’s or audio files on their computer. (mpeg4 video files and certain avi files seem to be a problem for people using windows media player.) if you need a multi purpose player for virtually any platform that will play most file types, then get [...]
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