Archive for 2006

Autumn photos

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Out and about with slowish colour film and a macro lens (55mm). I find the very sharp depth of field attractive under some circumstances, but it is tricky to choose the right plane of focus looking at the little ground glass screen with the camera hand held.

A crop from a lessig slide

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Intellectual property rights may damage innovation and split markets. Lessig explains using the Google Book Search as an example, through the medium of a presentation with sound track.

Plotting scientific data with MS Excel

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

MS Excel has powerful data plotting functions but the default settings are for illustrative graphs for presentations rather than printed graphs of scientific data. This handout suggests some settings that might produce better quality graphs.

How much can you remember?

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Half term break provides a gap long enough to forget some bits of Maths, and this worksheet is designed to jog memories.

Darwin Online

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Cambridge University and the Darwin family have presented all of Darwin’s writings on a Web site. Text is searchable. Superb resource, and perhaps the way forward for history?