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Following on from my pre-Budget " Sceptical look at the economy ", I thought I'd return to politics and the Budget. The fina...

This is the third in a series of blog posts on SQL, the first covered creating a database, the second selecting information from a databas...

This post can be read in full here:  http://www.ianhopkinson.org.uk/2010/06/book-review-botany-of-desire/ Yet another in my erratic...

Part 1 of this sequence of blog posts provided a preamble and showed how to create databases. This post introduces the basic SELECT command...

These are some notes on SQL a language for creating and querying databases, I'm learning it because a couple of programming projects I ...

This blog post was written partly because I'd got fed up with hearing about how all cuts were evil, without hearing an alternativ...

I thought I might try describing my job as an academic in a physics department, and comparing that to my current work as an industrial scien...

This blog post is about programming, for people that don't program - at least that's the effect I'm aiming for. The title is in ...

Once again I have been reading, this time " The World of Gerard Mercator " by Andrew Taylor. As before this blog post could be vi...

Some time ago I wrote a post on confocal microscopy - a way of probing 3D structure at high spatial resolution. This post is about using co...

I think this will be my final political blog post for a while. I've written quite a few over the past month: I started with an explanati...