Tag: bogus

  • Open source at the blunt edge.

    Here is an object lesson in why free and open source software is a symbol of good ethics. The other day, I had a PDF sent to me by the...

  • Stan Freberg to the (sardonic) rescue

    In my youngest daughter’s school they celebrated the visit of Green Santa, who was into Repair Reuse Recycle sort of prezzies. I like that. Stan Freberg, 50 years ago, took...

  • Pigeonholes

    For the sake of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research, I submitted myself to a course on project management a fortnight ago. It was good and bad. There were some...

  • Ossified professor syndrome

    During the lecture series offered by an Extremely Famous professor some while back, a number of us at Aberdeen got to talking. Why was it that by the time an...