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Doctor Who novels

Louis — Sun, 05 May 2013 09:29:19 +0000

In the course of following the revival of Doctor Who series (well, that kind of happened a few years ago back in 2005…), it’s wonderful that I keep discovering new resources which help to rekindle my interests in all things related to Doctor Who!

Here are the links I found recently about the Doctor Who novels – originally serialisation of the TV episodes, but apparently due to the long hiatus until a restart of the series with Christopher Eccelston. Well here are the book series that have been published over the years and I have been slowly going through the original Target series at the moment.

The Target Series: the original series I read during my childhood, basically novelisations of the TV episodes, many by Terrance Dicks.
The Missing Adventures by Virgin Publishing
The New Adventures by Virgin Publishing
The Eighth Doctor Adventures: published by BBC, after the telemovie of the Eighth Doctor.
The Past Doctor Adventures: from BBC and published alongside the Eighth Doctor Adventures.
New Series Adventures: novelisations of the “modern” series.

Glass explorer

Louis — Sat, 04 May 2013 12:23:34 +0000

It is now 2013. Technology seems to be advancing in an increasing pace. Even now there is already talk of 8-core in our smart phones to come out later this year. Just imagine I am typing now on a 6-core AMD-based system, which I assembled only a short 2 years ago!

Anyway here is a video of a Physics teacher exploring the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland – designed to investigate the beginning of the Universe, you know!? Geeky as hell, but I sure would like to be in his shoes!

WordPress or Joomla?

Louis — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:40:56 +0000

A nice infographic which summarises the strengths of WordPress vs Joomla, accurate as of beginning of 2013. I wish there was something like this when I first started blogging many years ago and had a hard time deciding the platform!

Carcassonne

Louis — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:47:26 +0000

Recently came across a story set in the Medieval town of Carcassone in a book – which was subsequently made TV mini-series in recent years – called “Labyrinth” by Kate Mosse. What is the significance of this place you may ask? For starters this was was the setting for the extermination of Cathars in the so-called Albigensian Crusade (which incidentally led to the Inquisition eventually). I first heard of this place in the now well-known “Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown, in connection with the treasures and the Grail brought to France from Jerusalem many decades previously. An interesting story – a fiction – in itself but the historical backdrop gives a sense of silliness which took place all in the name of religion.

Core Values from HP’s Garage

Louis — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:38:11 +0000

The garage where Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded HP had its own core set of rules:

Believe you can change the world.
Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever.
Know when to work alone and when to work together.
Share tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues.
No Politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage.)
The customer defines a job well done.
Radical ideas are not bad ideas.
Invent different ways of working.
Make a contribution every day. If it doesn’t contribute, it doesn’t leave the garage.
Believe that together we can do anything.
Invent.