So this ultimately useless gimmick on the Microsoft website can enable you check the strength of your password. Mine is deemed of ‘medium ‘ strength. I consider it a lazy password, based on a very obvious element in my life and sometimes it does strike me I am foolish to be of the blase [...]

So is a red sky at night Shepard’s delight and red sky in the morning Shepard warning? Firstly to figure out this question we need to first explain why we have coloured skies. The answer to this was first given by a guy from Carlow named Tyndall. While also a brilliant scientist and supposed creator [...]

Todays Independent has a Digital Age supplement, its lead story covering the implementation of an EU Directive come the end of March which will require the storage of information on all our internet activity, emailing and browsing for a minimum of 2 years. The article discussed the obvious implications for our privacy, the burden placed [...]

I came across this table via Worlds fair on scienceblogs.com

From Nocera (2006) “The Future of Global Energy,” in Daedalus

So what that means basically is that we in the the world use about 13TW (terra Watts ) of electricity a year. If by 2050 the whole world has the standard of living of Poland now [...]

A lunar eclipse will occur late Wednesday night stretching into Thursday morning, the timing being unfortunate as there will not be another until 2010. Astronomy Ireland give a clear breakdown of what will occur here as well as delivering the unfortunate news we won’t be able to view the full effect until 3 am. 

It is the eternal question which ranks up there with who took the horse to France. But there is an answer that I saw a few years back when a guy from Jacobs explain how it was done. This is what he explained. Basically they have a pipe in a pipe. In the inside pipe [...]

Everyone has there own technique some people are rubs some scratches but everyone has a technique that they use when the coin does not work in the vending machine. You know the scenario you put a coin into the vending machine and it pops out. You try again thinking you just got the wrong velocity [...]

Noel Dempsey is buying his re-election for €1.8 billion. Is he worth it? And what does that say about Irish politics. From the Sunday Business Post. 
Transport minister Noel Dempsey has intervened in a controversial pylon dispute by calling on EirGrid to re-route the high voltage lines underground along the new M3 motorway in Meath. Dempsey, [...]

There is a famous story about pens. Picture the scene. Russian space agency and NASA or having a chat at some space conference.Lets call the Russian Igor and the American Buddy.
Buddy: We have come up with a great way of solving the writting in space problem. You know how pens don’t write upside down as [...]

This truly is dream makling stuff, echoing plot lines from James Bond movies as a wealthy entrepreneur breaks down the barriers in what a private citizen can achieve, though hopefully without plans for world domination. Richard Branson yesterday unveiled plans for ther launch of Virgin Galactic’s passenger spaceship. Read here coverage of the launch at [...]