Monthly Archives: November 2009

ClimateGate: CRU Hacked Code Comments

hacked emails and documents from the Hadley Centre, I have written a little program to automatically extract comments from the source code and text from “readme” text files*. This makes it a little easier to search through code comments. Continue reading

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Horizontal vs Vertical Wells (Updated)

Horizontal wells do have significant technical challenges (as seen in the article), but perhaps we can analyse the above chart to give us an idea of the benefits of horizontal drilling Continue reading

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Enshrining Economic Liberty

The Former Soviet Republic of Georgia is debating a law to enshrine economic liberty to its citizens and placing constitutional limits to government spending and taxation. Continue reading

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Legalise Insider Trading

I have always believed in the Insider Trading laws that protect the market from distortions arising from investors acting on non-public information. Recent articles by Don Boudreaux, discusses Insider Trading, and perhaps it isn’t as bad as I once thought. … Continue reading

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Beep Test

Inspired by my sister in law’s induction into the Police Force, I have given myself a goal to get to level 10 on the Beep Test by Christmas 2009. Here is my progress – updated automatically from Google Spreadsheets: An … Continue reading

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Rocket Videos

Videos of my hobby rockets. They had much cooler music previously, but I had to change the backing track due to copyright

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“Denier!”

Great post from science writer Joanne Nova. Continue reading

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