Welcome to Deathrow

Well I’m on my way to a conference in Edinburgh and I’m currently stuff in T5. Not a lot to say about this wonderful place except that it is the same as any other airport.

Oh well, at least I have the right to claim 250 euro compensation – screw you BA/BAA.

Why I love xkcd.

And now I might never get to again

BTW, for those who use Firefox and find you can’t always see all of the hover over text (the title tag) try the Long Titles extension

I can’t help but be amused…

…by animals with big noses.

Giant Elephant Shrew

A new mammal has been discovered that is like a rather large elephant shrew. Brilliant

Unfortunately the paper doesn’t appear to be published yet. Shame.

While I’m here did you know that elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than other shrews. Blooming marvellous

Synchronicity at work

In an uncanny coincidence, within moments of adding reCAPTCHA spam protection to this blog a story appears on the beeb.

Some would claim I’m physic but I think I’ll stick with synchronicity as an explanation.