http://dereksorensen.com Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:03:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Often, when discussing Anthropogenic Global Warming, there are references to, or appeals to, the "precautionary principle", a relatively new buzz-phrase which basically means "When making a decision on what action to take, even if you don't have the facts, the environment and health outweigh all other factors" and which is ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=55 Pick a card, any card. Interesting article in the New York Times about the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC a few weeks back. Two theoretical physicists, Holger B. Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya, have proposed that the Higgs Boson is so "abhorrent to nature" that the future universe is somehow reaching ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=53 It's always sad when someone dies unnecessarily. Yes, of course, there is a sense of "divine justice" when the victim is a quack who dies of the same quackery they have been peddling to unsuspecting victims - and this seems to happen more often than you'd expect - but ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=52   This post is for the techies. If you don't consider yourself a techie, look away now. Ok, now we've got rid of them, let's talk about Joint Ventures. If it hasn't happened to you yet then it almost certainly will eventually. Someone comes along with a sure-fire idea but needs ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=51 The phone rings. You pick it up. "Hello?" The voice at the other end of the line says, "Have you heard ... Tesco are planning a superstore in [insert your town here]". If you live in a small town, as I do, then to hear that Tesco are planning on ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=50 Say NO to a Tesco Superstore at Aston Martin, Newport Pagnell. Tesco has submitted a planning application to Milton Keynes Council for the erection of a store of 15000 square feet with possible expansion to 20000 sq ft. This is almost the size of the Waitrose store (21000 sq ft) in ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=49 On Wednesday I posted a blog about getting TortoiseCVS working on Windows Vista. Out of curiosity, I googled for it the next day using the search term "TortoisePlink has stopped working" and it was at number two. On Friday it was at number one. Today (Saturday) google ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=48 If you are trying to get TortoiseCVS working on Windows Vista, but keep getting the error "TortoisePlink has stopped working", read on. On Monday I took delivery of a shiny new Dell Inspiron 1510 and so far I'm really pleased with it. I opted for the standard install of Vista ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=47 From Quackwatch: Nevada bill aims to legalize quackery. http://www.quackwatch.org/07PoliticalActivities/nevada_sb69.pdf Nevada State Senator Michael A. Schneider has introduced S.B. 69, an 85-page bill that would: **Declare Nevada a "freedom of health" state. **Affirm that patients are "entitled to access to and the use of the products and services of any provider of health care chosen by ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=46 E. W. Djisktra Diskjtra Diskra Dijkstra According to Dijkstra, he was the first professional Computer Programmer in Holland (PDF), although at the time of his marriage he wasn't allowed to call himself a programmer, and hence his marriage certificate read "Theoretical Physicist". In programming circles - particularly among geeky, pretentious programmers like ... http://dereksorensen.com/?p=45