naxos' Journal

12:29am:

I have finally logged onto this on my laptop and accepted the terms and conditions and it works on my iPhone now so yes, I am back!

Where is everyone?

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.

12:12pm: ( Pretty cool quantum crypto system (19in rack mount)Collapse )

11:16am: Schrodinger's breakfast
A conversation we had over breakfast today, up in Canary Wharf.

haggisthesecond: So... Schrodinger's cat...
naxos: Yes (and no)?
haggisthesecond: Haha! Actually, that kind of answers my question.

2:15pm: ( Fun with telemarketersCollapse )

10:54am: Milky Way Transit Authority
http://www.arbesman.net/milkyway

11:56pm: exotic sounding places
Since I got back, I've been amusing myself by being an armchair traveller and thinking of cool places I could, potentially, visit one day. As many of these places are purely names on an atlas to me, I was thinking on the way home about what are the most exotic sounding places in the world one could potentially visit.

( A few names to kick off withCollapse )

9:29pm: Tasteful
Tasteful yacht, no?

11:16pm: ( Hi from South AfricaCollapse )

9:27am: ( Book finished, hence man flu descendsCollapse )

9:48pm: ( Friday night conversation snippetCollapse )

9:23pm: ( London Open House: Exciting opportunity for tour of BT TowerCollapse )

10:05am: ( can't it just be a big coffee?Collapse )

8:58pm: ( A very large Prince Albert that just came into my field of visionCollapse )

11:01pm: ( Show and tell - our trip to the Large Hadron ColliderCollapse )

11:17pm: ( Interesting graph of leptokurtic likelihood ratioCollapse )

4:30pm: ( Wolfram Alpha cloud computing iPhone app for quantitative geeksCollapse )

2:36pm: ( timezonesCollapse )

9:17pm: Been wasting time with Photoshop. Must get back to the book. Prrrrrrrrr.

3:43pm: ( Fly Turkish Airlines - the airline that gives you more in the airCollapse )

7:08pm: ( An email from Herb SutterCollapse )

11:39pm: The new iPad delivers a magical internet browsing experience and while it doesn't have a tactile keyboard, it incorporates a discreet whisker trimmer.

10:15am: An interesting review in today's Guardian of

Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler (2010) Connected: The Amazing Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, Harper Press.

4:24pm: ( Music for cats and dogsCollapse )

9:57am: Yesterday my dad and I drove down to Walpole to go to the Valley of the Giants treetop walk. We haven't been to Walpole for over 15 years or so and the tree top walk is a new tourist attraction, which I thought would be a fun day out. It was indeed most impressive - we saw 400 year old tingle trees and photographs don't really convey the feeling of being suspended in air in the forest canopy. It's great to get back to nature like this.



( WARNING: Photos below the cut may not be suitable for people with acrophobia.Collapse )

Am flying back to London in 2 days but I'm already looking forward to my next trip back here.

7:07pm: ( Lunch with Mr. Pelican in MandurahCollapse )