Science | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:50:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Seven of Nine and the Illuminati https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/12/seven-of-nine-and-the-illuminati/ Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:59:49 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1551 This blog post started life this summer, after the Olympics. It was a time of great celebration in Britain; after all, according to some people we'd dodged at least three bullets over the Olympic period - a nuclear terror attack, the invasion of Earth by inter-dimensional aliens through a portal opened by the Olympic Opening Ceremony or an uprising of the forces of the Illuminati.

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]]> …and yes, I saw Jupiter! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2011/10/and-yes-i-saw-jupiter/ Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:56:31 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1341 Well, I mentioned in my last post that I was going to haul the venerable telescope out of the garage, set it up and then take a look at Jupiter.  And on the 29th September I managed to do that. (For anyone curious as to the 10 day gap between doing it and blogging it, […]

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]]> It’s weird what brings you back…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2011/09/its-weird-what-brings-you-back/ Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:15:35 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1334 …to blogging. I’ve had a few months that should eventually give me plenty of grist to the blogging mill, but to be blunt right now much of my time is being spent writing PHP and .NET code for those wonderful people called ‘paying customers’. Most people in small businesses will probably agree that this year […]

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]]> I was right to blame it on sunspots! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/07/i-was-right-to-blame-it-on-sunspots/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:10:27 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1176 Early on in my consulting career – late 1980s, early 1990s – I did a lot of work for a public sector organisation.  I worked on a number of projects – this was in the days when IT consultants could still be generalists, applying their skills to whatever was needed – and tended to specialise […]

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]]> Too few experiments in school science https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/too-few-experiments-in-school-science/ Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:33:10 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1048 I’m a science geek – always have been, always will be.  When I was a kid I had microscopes, telescopes, chemistry sets – anything that allowed me to do experiments.  By the time I went to secondary school I was already pretty practically inclined in the laboratory, having done quite a few of the experiments […]

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]]> Bust the brainy kids – you know it makes sense! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/bust-the-brainy-kids-you-know-it-makes-sense/ Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:32:12 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=604 Although this little gem of a story happened in the US, I have no doubt that given a few more months it’s likely to happen here.  Well…I don’t know…at least the Yanks encourage science and technology enough to actually organise things like science fairs…  However, back to the story.  Smart kid builds a motion detector […]

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