By Sami Mughal So about two years ago, Sharpie announced the Liquid Pencil (http://blog.sharpie.com/2010/08/introducing-the-new-sharpie-liquid-pencil/). Every since that announcement, I have been waiting for it to be released in the UK. Two years go by, and still nothing. However, the other day, browsing through Staples (in the UK), I came across the Staples Liquid Pencil. Compared … Read more
I present to you one of the most famous images of Steve Jobs. It always makes me wonder. It is not the eyes and that very subtle smirk on his face. It is that hand. That hand in front of his face, which seems to be supporting his chin. I have stared at it, … Read more
By Sami Mughal So I have this new laptop at (my new) work. I unplugged and re-plugged the charger, as you do, and discovered that the computer stated it was plugged, but was not charging. Curious, I looked at my options/preferences, and found nothing. Googled, and found a lot of people complaining about it. There … Read more
This is an absolute must – watch for any Doctor Who or Star Wars fan.
This is one for those who like knitting, and those who like to be stay warm in the cold winter months. It being cold and with the holidays season running on a high, I came across Wool and the gang (http://www.woolandthegang.com), where you can buy needles, yarn, wool, knitting kits, and of course, they also … Read more
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Requirement: To communicate between two Arduino Mega boards, about 7 meters apart, sending 6 bytes of data, and receiving 2 bytes of data back from the other board, keeping the supplies and grounds for both the supplies separate. Procedure: The first thing to do was to establish an I2C between two Arduino boards. … Read more
British people care about the weather more than they care about anything else in the world. It is a stereotype, but it is not very far from the truth. Which is what makes www.uksnowmap.com such a success! It is a website that just scans Twitter, and based on what people are tweeting about the snow, … Read more
By Sami Mughal Now while today was the day CERN gave a much anticipated statement about their progress with the discovery of Higgs Boson, this video of two MIT dudes showing speed of light videoed excites me a lot more. Here are a couple of other links in case the video does not work: http://www.pcworld.com/article/246141/mits_light_speed_camera_snaps_a_trillion_frames_per_second.html … Read more
So yesterday, we were pretty sure Higgs Bosons exist. Now are almost pretty sure they exist. In terms of numbers… we were at 90% that they exist, now we have a 92%. While this may seem all a bit sarcastic, this is how physics moves forward, and the Higgs Boson still promises to be the … Read more
A German company called Cornelsen Verlag, who appear to be one of the major educational publishers in Germany, have just written to me. They are working in co-operation with a Russian publisher, producing a series of school books for Russian students, teaching them English as a foreign language. They want to use an excerpt from … Read more