in de-nile

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/21/climate-change-nile-flooding-farming

HIV genome decoded

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8186263.stm

space bacterium

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/12/mars-mission-conan-bacterium-russian

Eclipse FAIL

Wondering if Eclipse would be worthwhile a few months back as an alternative to netbeans I thought I would wait until the launch of the new version (Galileo) this morning, and give it a go. I was pleased to see the BIRT reporting plugin which looked like it might be quite useful.

Trying to install the new version of Eclipse which launched their new version today, I started by downloading Galileo. Downloaded, unzipped, hunted for something that looked like an executable and then clicked on the icon, only to get a "eclipse executable launcher unable to companion library" error message.

Now there are many instances of this error message on google, but no response I've read has really made sense in terms of how to fix it. Then I realised as hunting through files and directory structure that the subdirectories were blank - I'd unzipped them without paths. Do'h!

Evolution Faster When Warmer

A report says evolution is faster when its warmer!

Planning for change

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8107014.stm

Britain will get warmer over the next few years - now that this is being accepted as inevitable, how does this affect you?

Thats a lot of poop

Penguin Poop visible from space

Lib Dems election issues

So today is Euro and local elections and traditionally third place party the Liberal Democrats are looking like they will actually come second. However, I checked out their website today and it gives the image....



Isn't this supposed to to go up after the election results?

glacier microbes

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