Galette (buckwheat pancake) with good quality bacon and maple syrup
My all time favourite use of Canada's famous product, although quail with blood-orange juice and maple syrup is also quite neat. My recipe can be found here
Posts by Michael H.F. Wilkinson
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Canadians nab syrup rustlers after massive maple sap heist
Naked Scarlett Johansson pic snatch bloke gets 10 YEARS
Information teleportation goes large-scale
VCDX: The elite certification just 105 people hold
North Korea's satellite a dud, say US astroboffins
Siri: Can you make a Raspberry Pi open a garage door?
Shh! Proxima Centauri can hear us!
Musos blast US copyright bods: 'ARTISTS MAKE LOUSY SLAVES!'
Second Higgs possibility pops up in CERN data
Chinese spacecraft JUUUUST avoids smashing into Toutatis
NASA to smash its spacecraft INTO THE MOON
Stephen Hawking pushes for posthumous pardon for Alan Turing
Falling slinky displays slow-motion causality
Sniff.. Phew! WORLD'S OLDEST CHEESE discovered in Poland
NASA reveals secrets of Curiosity’s selfies
Schmidt 'very proud' of Google's tiny tax bill: 'It's called capitalism'
Internet Explorer tracks cursor even when minimised
Elon Musk's solar energy biz scraps IPO liftoff at last minute
Stephen Hawking gets $3m physics prize from Mail.ru tycoon
Wednesday 12th December 2012 15:19 GMT 
Or look at Google Scholar
Right here
Not only has he got a huge list of publications, having 4-figure citation counts on so many papers does mean something (at minimum that the authors of that many papers claim to have read those works ;-) )
Yes there are other physicists who deserve such a price. Maybe next time?
Worldwide Gmail crash was due to Google Sync bug
Russian space research org targeted by mystery malware attack
North Korean rocket works, puts something into orbit
Wednesday 12th December 2012 09:46 GMT
Re: Well done!
I wholeheartedly agree it is an achievement, and the scientists and engineers involved certainly deserve congratulations. Raise a glass of Munbaeju for them.
However, the politicians might change their priorities. I might suggest "food first, rockets later" as a suitable mnemonic for a policy that will serve the people better.
Another Apple maps desert death trap down under
Linux kernel dumps 386 chip support
Apple's iOS 6 maps STILL muddle Mildura
Tuesday 11th December 2012 15:39 GMT
Re: Big intake of breath
Sextant? Why trust such newfangled stuff! An astrolabe was good enough for me great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddad, so it is good enough for me!!
Deary me, they'll want to replace me old lodestone next!
Tuesday 11th December 2012 08:36 GMT
How many RPM
is Steve Jobs doing in his grave?
There is a Dutch saying, which translates to:
Reputation comes on foot, and leaves on horseback.
Apple always prided itself on high quality, easy to use, well designed products, and this was the image it successfully created in public. Whether the reader agrees is another matter, I pass no judgement as I have limited experience with Apple hardware (the Apple II our school bought, and some Mac(book) Pros at an institute I visited). A few more screw-ups like this and that reputation may start to slip seriously.
The Sons of Kahn and the assembly language of the internet
Last moon landing was 40 years ago today
This is out of hand now: Apple attempts to trademark the LEAF
Tor node admin raided by cops appeals for help with legal bills
Australian Police say don't use Apple's iOS 6 Maps
Behold ATLAS, the fastest computer of 50 years ago
2020AD: Space tourists will be FOUND ON MOON
'Facebook is completely undreamt of even by the worst spying nation'
Friday 7th December 2012 12:52 GMT
I had quite a few interesting experiences when working at the university hospital as scientific programmer for the image processing system we had developed. This was a DOS system with monochrome text monitor, equipped with a frame grabber and an extra colour monitor to show the image from the camera and ant processed image. One day a user came to complain that since my last software update, the mouse was behaving in reverse: move left, the cursor goes right, move up, the cursor goes down, etc. I explained that I had not changed anything in the mouse-handling, but agreed to come and have a look. It turned out she was holding the mouse with the "tail end" facing her. After rotating the rodent 180 degrees I invited her to try again. Rather red-faced, she went to work.
Five minutes later she comes into my office complaining that the image was upside-down (again blaming the software upgrade). Completely baffled at this, I went and had a look. I found everything looked normal (all text readable without putting a crick in your neck). I suggested all looked well. She then said that it was the colour image on the monitor which was upside-down. This image just showed some bacteria, which looked much the same in any orientation. The text on that screen also looked fine. I asked her again what the problem was, and finally it dawned on me. I went to the microscope, rotated the camera (which she had mounted) by 180 degrees, and asked her if this was better. Very red-faced, she went back to work.
I think she would not have dared come to complain about anything that month, even if the system had caught fire.
Motörheadphönes Overkill earphones review
Hero Playmonaut lost at sea as SPEARS ditches in Channel
Tuesday 4th December 2012 10:01 GMT 
An epic saga indeed
Just epic!
I shall follow this continuing saga, forgetting not those who fell in the pursuit of glory.
I do not doubt the playmonaut was taken (by Valkyrie) to a place in the great hall of Valhalla, the only fitting place for a hero of his stature. I shall raise a horn filled to the brim with my best mead this evening, or failing that a tot of finest Usge beatha!
Who's using 'password' as a password? TOO MANY OF YOU
‘Hyperspectral’ camera surprises aurora researchers
Monday 3rd December 2012 10:47 GMT
@MacGyver
Moire patterns (properly aliasing artefacts) occur when a semi-periodic pattern below the limit of resolution of the CCD occurs in the image, not in random noise patterns. Thus the signal needs some semi-periodic component to get these artefacts. I have seen hundreds of astronomical images taken below the resolution limit of the optics, and have never yet seen Moire-like aliasing artefacts.
Monday 3rd December 2012 08:55 GMT 
Neat images
Auroras are often magnificent, but this adds a whole new dimension (38 actually, from 3D RGB to 41D hyperspectral)!
I wonder if the airglow wave pattern is in some way similar to ionospheric waves seen by the LOFAR antennae. Those seem to occur at higher altitude, but I wonder if similar mechanisms trigger them (or that there is some coupling between ionospheric waves and the low altitude wave pattern seen here).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
