Tom Lachecki

Letter from the University of Nottingham's department of "External Relations and Communications" I received in the post this morning…

Today in "Why New Facebook Sucks"…

Last night's episode of Stargate Atlantis was the eighth in the final season, and saw a whole new role for Rachel Luttrell.

On IRC today, everyone and his dog is chatting about black holes. This may or may not be because the LHC was successfully activated today and we could all be ripped apart by microtidal forces at any moment. But I got to thinking.

McCain says, "we are winning in Iraq". Winning against who? How are we winning? It disturbs me greatly that the GOP is ahead in the polls… at least according to CNN.

This week I want to talk about two classes that are both part of the C++ Standard Library, both do similar things and yet are fundamentally different. String streams.

I love this unassuming shot of Sarkozy and Medvedev's shadow on the BBC's "day in pictures" feature.

I have yet to figure out why so many people are doing this at the moment, but there's an epidemic of omitting terminating regular expression delimiters.

Russell Brand publicly threw his support behind Barack Obama at the MTV Video Music Awards in LA this weekend with some colourful language.

I don't know how they did it but Amazon emailed me product recommendations that aptly describe my tastes, despite my having never bought a book nor a religious item from them. Eh, maybe that's why. Impressive.