http://corycia.net If you want the door to open, you have to knock. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:21:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are many jokes about the Germans, but one of the few I can post here is that oft-told adage that at the present rate of increase, eventually the German language will consist of a single, extremely long word. Ok, so that's a bit mad, but a lot of people think ... http://corycia.net/2008/11/24/are-german-words-longer-than-english-ones/ So I finally made it to Anfield for the first time yesterday, for the Liverpool/Fulham Premiership game. Now, I'm neither a Fulham nor Liverpool supporter: my wife's uncle has a Fulham season ticket but couldn't make the game, so I went with my father-in-law. The atmosphere at Anfield is really ... http://corycia.net/2008/11/23/torres-is-a-floppy-haired-diving-git/ As a new parent, I am worried about the safety of my child, as any normal parent would be. I am also concerned about civil liberties and privacy. However, these two concerns are colliding together in various ways in our society right now, and you should be worried about it. ... http://corycia.net/2008/11/19/big-sister-is-watching-you-part-1/ [caption id="attachment_125" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The new MacBook Pro"][/caption] So, after much hype and rumour, the new MacBooks are finally out, and many of the 'wishlist' items are there in reality. You can see the whole announcement at Apple, including the usual Steve Jobs bit, and a quirky missive from Jonathan Ive, ... http://corycia.net/2008/10/14/new-macbook-pro-from-apple/ Phew. It's been a long couple of weeks, but I'm pretty much moved in now. So, I'm apparently a lecturer in physics at Manchester University, and no longer employed by HM Govt. It's been a busy couple of weeks to say the least, as I've been out of the ... http://corycia.net/2008/10/06/partical-physics/ Some people have made fun of a recent comment made by one of John McCain's aides, that the grizzled senator helped to invent the RIM Blackberry. Ok, so in reality Douglas J Holtz-Eakin (why do all these guys have names that sound made-up?) was pointing to McCain's time on the ... http://corycia.net/2008/09/17/eating-blackberries/ [caption id="attachment_96" align="alignright" width="150" caption="The SRS: now just so much junk"][/caption] Today was a rather surreal experience. Now that the SRS has finally shut, and before the men with spanners start to dismantle the accelerator - some parts of which are over 40 years old - the site has been opened to ... http://corycia.net/2008/09/14/bouncy-castle/ Okay, so I was set on gettng an iPhone eventually, probably by persuading my friend Sam to part with hers and me switch to an O2 SIM card (I'm on a crap T-Mobile tariff right now). But then, only yesterday, I got a special offer email from Expansys for the ... http://corycia.net/2008/09/14/my-new-windows-mobile-phone/ So, it's the time of year that always seems to herald change for me. Ever since I was a kid, mid-September was when those feelings of uneasiness drifted into consciousness, making one aware of the changes to come. At school, September was the start of a new year, usually bigger ... http://corycia.net/2008/09/13/thats-all-folks/ If you haven't yet heard of the Sony Reader, you will have in a few months' time. This device is set to become to books what the iPod was to music, and what the digital camera was to photography. Publishers, beware! The Sony Reader is going to revolutionise digital media. ... http://corycia.net/2008/08/31/first-thoughts-on-the-sony-reader/