Thursday 23 December 2010

The return of the Cynical Scientist

It has been a while, for which I apologize. But over the last month it has been deadline after deadline for work at uni. Now with the Christmas break, time to blog once more.

Items in the news to comment, which are slightly late, for the past month the BBC news as been dominated by "Frozen Britain", for some reason they seem surprised a) it's cold in winter and b) Britain's infrastructure has ground to a halt.

Wiki Leaks also in the news, for some reason the BBC seem to love lapping it up. I can not see how it's news story, all it is out of context quotes for personal opinions in emails and therefore not the policy of the USA government, which would make a much greater news story. The reports they produce could be made to support any viewpoint if the right parts of the emails where used, how is that a reliable source ?

Finally, student protests... the "protests" particularly in London have only cased a negative light on student across the country, by the pointless vandalism, and as a results turned any of the general public against students. See my past post of the Millbank riots.

In other news, recently brought a new laptop to replace my ageing dell xps M133o which had been a very trusty machine, however time had got the better of it.
So I now have an Acer Aspire Timeline X 4820T (tons of wonderful marketing there) however I am so after very impressed with it. Over the coming weeks I hope to report more on the performance of it.