Psychogeeks

For quite a few years I have been contributing to the ABC Science forums, particularly the ABC Self Service Science forum. Over the years the forums have accumulated quite a few answers to questions on topics from quantum physics to belly-button fluff, but finding them can be a problem without an internal search facility. [...]

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Over at Seth’s Blog: A shortage of digital coaches Seth points out something that I have often considered and think has some merit.
As an IT literate guy I frequently find myself explaining to others how even the simplest IT things can be done more efficiently (or effectively) with small changes in behaviour or thinking. [...]

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If you’ve ever listened to a Free Software bigot ranting about the evils of software patents, monopolies, and the like you might be forgiven for wondering what it’s all about. Surely these are fringe views and there is not much to it for the bulk of us?
One of the large figures in the [...]

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Television viewing has changed quite a lot in my household since I started using a MythTV box. I no longer worry about what is on and when…I just turn on the box and look at the stuff it has remembered to record for me when I feel like watching some TV. On [...]

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I’ve recently been wanting to run a few simulations of solar system dynamics to generate data for animations of various phenomena. One of the most used tools for this in astronomy circles has been the SWIFT package by Hal Levison and Martin Duncan. I used a web-hosted version of SWIFT during my studies [...]

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