We scientists mostly suck at communicating with the public. Many of us don't even try to do any real outreach to the non-science public....

A quick note, on this beautiful, finally cool Monday morning: Oneiric Ocelot is coming! "Huh?" What it means is, Ubuntu Lin...

John McIntyre, newspaper copyeditor and proprietor of You Don't Say 1 recently had some much needed advice for all of us writing online...

I have my annual health check tomorrow morning, followed by a two-day project meeting in Kyoto so I'll be rather busy until the end of t...

The "Google+" post list to the right doesn't work any more. I'll just leave it for now and replace with a better solution ...

I'm behind at work right now (OK, so when am I not behind?) since I took a vacation just before some project meetings. I have still wri...

I spend a lot of time in front of my computer. A lot of time — there are days when I go from bed directly to my laptop; spend my morning co...