Monthly Archives: February 2002

Black box in your car

Okay so it’s floating around the news and has been Slashdotted but basically there’s some crazy plan to equip cars with black boxes that beam information about the roads that they are being driven on up to sateliettes and then the government produces a bill every month for road usage. Apparently this scheme then generates [...]

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Day 22 : three weeks in

Well, I’m now three weeks into project : rain collection. Today’s results are – Device 1 – 32ml Device 2 – 33ml So it’s time for some statistics. Over the first week, I collected a total of 60 and 69 ml of rain in the devices, so the week 1 daily mean rainfall was 9 [...]

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Colorgenics

Okay I eventually happened across this Colorgenics site which is a bit like a star reading but based on a set of colours that you choose in a certain order. The first time I did it I chose grey yellow green red purple blue brown black and here’s the first paragraph of the result it [...]

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Moments of simplicity

If you are stressed and require a moment to chill out, you could do worse than try this site (link ironically no longer available, try meditation instead I guess..) which has a number of different tranquil things to gaze at and disappear into. (Beware javascript pop-up window and flash are required. This may in itself [...]

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OU rain experiment

This entry is mostly about rain collection and other various things. First off the results from today which are : Device 1 : 4ml Device 2 : 10ml Now. I’m a bit concerned about these results. It snowed today but not particualarly hard. What really bothers me is the difference between the two. I mean [...]

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