Archive for November, 2009

 

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

I favorited a YouTube video — Professor on sky news educates newsreader on some drug related facts http://bit.ly/68×4tF #
Slides of Professor David Nutt's presentation to #SitP Westminster http://bit.ly/5mz11S/ #
Thanks to @Stephen_Curry @josswinn & @Blue_Wode for RTing the slides from Prof Nutt's #sitp talk http://bit.ly/5mz11S/ #
"Good afternoon, I'm Chris Smith, I'm the Labour MP for Islington [...]

 

Victim? I don’t care what you think

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Whether it is the eloquent or crass, whether you agree with it or not, the opinions of someone who has been wronged or has had a loved one killed are irrelevant to policy.
I have nothing but sympathy for the families left behind by service personnel killed in the line of duty; my heart [...]

 

Interview with Ariane Sherine – Dave at the Pod Delusion

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Come on over and listen to me interviewing the fabulous Ariane Sherine – thankyou, Ariane! The Pod Delusion is a podcast about interesting things. From scepticism to lefty liberal things, it’s commentary from a secular, rationalist, ‘Guardianista’, sort of perspective. A bit like From Our Own Correspondent but with more jokes.

This week:
Ariane Sherine Interview (0:57) [...]

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

to all my readers in the US of A!

 
 

#Facebook are being silly again

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

On Friday, Facebook will start using your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts. It’s legal and is mentioned in the fine print when you create your account. If you want to prevent this from happening, do the following: Settings, Privacy Settings, News Feed and Wall. Then Facebook Ads, [...]

 

Birther sedevacantism

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Sedevacantists are a small minority within Catholicism who hold that Vatican II was illegitimate and so current Popes and the current Catholic church are shams.
They base this, as I understand it, on three ideas. Firstly, the changes passed at Vatican II, particularly the removal of the doctrine of Extra ecclesiam nulla salus (nothing saved [...]

 

David Nutt’s presentation to the Westminster Skeptics in the Pub

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Professor David Nutt has kindly allowed me to put his presentation on estimating drug harms from Monday 16th.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

RT @ProLondon Blog round-up – broken promises, bendies, cronies, airports, pqt http://bit.ly/4oMdVF #
Belated #FollowFriday @prolondon @jourdemayne @jackofkent #
What time does #sitp Westminster start tonight? #
Should I have my iPod repaired or buy an Archos instead? #
Are you still allowed to be an MP and an MEP at the same time? #
would there be a by-election [...]

 

Email & web outage

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

In the small hours of Friday morning, vps.net, the people who host my servers, suffered a quite spectacular DDOS attack. There are, briefly, two things I’d like to day: firstly, if you’ve emailed me, please email me again as I may have missed your message. Secondly, VPS.net are a really good hosting company and I’m [...]