Oblique de-rant

Having reviewed the evidential timeline after a good night's sleep, I can see why certain conclusions were reached by certain parties. There appears to have been something of an unfortunate conjunction in blogging.

Oops.

Apologies to philoko if I made him feel that I was rounding on him for his post in his own LJ, which was compounded by my having a mild prod over on his LJ! Anyway, since my first impulse is to pour kerosene on the fire and say 'bring it on', I have decided now that I am no longer all wound up from work to screen my indelicate response to his response. I like to think that when I am going to have a serious prod at someone, that I will name them so they don't have to infer it.

*Tip toes away from scene of near disaster and hopes no-one takes any notice....*

Oblique de-rant

Having reviewed the evidential timeline after a good night's sleep, I can see why certain conclusions were reached by certain parties. There appears to have been something of an unfortunate conjunction in blogging.

Oops.

Apologies to philoko if I made him feel that I was rounding on him for his post in his own LJ, which was compounded by my having a mild prod over on his LJ! Anyway, since my first impulse is to pour kerosene on the fire and say 'bring it on', I have decided now that I am no longer all wound up from work to screen my indelicate response to his response. I like to think that when I am going to have a serious prod at someone, that I will name them so they don't have to infer it.

*Tip toes away from scene of near disaster and hopes no-one takes any notice....*

Torrents

Someone has updated their servers. I just got speeds of significantly over 710kbs on the torrents. I've never had that before!

So I now have Heroes 2x01, House 4x01 and Bionic Woman 1x01 to watch, probably tomorrow or over the weekend. I had actually downloaded a pre-air version of the Bionic Woman pilot, but they then went on to recast the part of her sister, so certain scenes will be different in the broadcast version. Be interesting to compare.

In other news, NFL UK have sent an email out to anyone who tried to get tickets to the Dolphins-Giants game at Wembley, offering access to official NFL merchandise. How nice.

£99.99 for a replica Giants shirt?

I don't think so. Not even if it's sewn together with gold thread.

Torrents

Someone has updated their servers. I just got speeds of significantly over 710kbs on the torrents. I've never had that before!

So I now have Heroes 2x01, House 4x01 and Bionic Woman 1x01 to watch, probably tomorrow or over the weekend. I had actually downloaded a pre-air version of the Bionic Woman pilot, but they then went on to recast the part of her sister, so certain scenes will be different in the broadcast version. Be interesting to compare.

In other news, NFL UK have sent an email out to anyone who tried to get tickets to the Dolphins-Giants game at Wembley, offering access to official NFL merchandise. How nice.

£99.99 for a replica Giants shirt?

I don't think so. Not even if it's sewn together with gold thread.

Ocean climate fix?

Now here’s an interesting thing.

A “quick fix” to climate change proposed by Science Museum head Chris Rapley and Gaia theorist James Lovelock; the idea is simple, if expensive and technologically achievable, if something of an engineering feat. There are potential drawbacks, too, insofar as there may be issues for the larger marine wildlife, particularly whales.

The idea is based upon the simple premise that cold oceanic water is more productive than warm oceanic water (which, I have to say came as a bit of a surprise to me as a layman. Intuitively I would have thought that warm water would support more life, but there we are).

Floating pipes reaching down from the top of the ocean into colder water below move up and down with the swell.
As the pipe moves down, cold water flows up and out onto the ocean surface. A simple valve blocks any downward flow when the pipe is moving upwards.

The idea is simply that colder water at the surface will increase sea water absorption of CO2, reducing atmospheric warming and putting a brake on global warming.

The drawback is that estimates suggest that it would take 134 million such pipes to do the work and the technology has to be designed and tested, much less built and deployed. But it’s an interesting idea.

Ocean climate fix?

Now here’s an interesting thing.

A “quick fix” to climate change proposed by Science Museum head Chris Rapley and Gaia theorist James Lovelock; the idea is simple, if expensive and technologically achievable, if something of an engineering feat. There are potential drawbacks, too, insofar as there may be issues for the larger marine wildlife, particularly whales.

The idea is based upon the simple premise that cold oceanic water is more productive than warm oceanic water (which, I have to say came as a bit of a surprise to me as a layman. Intuitively I would have thought that warm water would support more life, but there we are).

Floating pipes reaching down from the top of the ocean into colder water below move up and down with the swell.
As the pipe moves down, cold water flows up and out onto the ocean surface. A simple valve blocks any downward flow when the pipe is moving upwards.

The idea is simply that colder water at the surface will increase sea water absorption of CO2, reducing atmospheric warming and putting a brake on global warming.

The drawback is that estimates suggest that it would take 134 million such pipes to do the work and the technology has to be designed and tested, much less built and deployed. But it’s an interesting idea.

Meetings

Bugrit.

My 2 ‘o’clock meeting was cancelled; I was looking forward to that. Not, I hasten to add, because it would be particularly interesting, but because it would have got me away from my desk for about an hour while I am comparatively under loaded.

I can guarantee that none of the meetings scheduled for October when I shall be snowed under will be cancelled. Life, eh? Tch.

That is all.

Meetings

Bugrit.

My 2 ‘o’clock meeting was cancelled; I was looking forward to that. Not, I hasten to add, because it would be particularly interesting, but because it would have got me away from my desk for about an hour while I am comparatively under loaded.

I can guarantee that none of the meetings scheduled for October when I shall be snowed under will be cancelled. Life, eh? Tch.

That is all.