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I'll be leaving the chess.com community before the end of 2010 .The blog will be transferred to this address
http://dreamofthought.blogspot.com/
thanks for reading and for playing. | Read More
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Although this year seems to be an average year for earthquakes, they do seem to be large and frequent.
I'm a bit worried about the swarm under Yellowstone and the recent quake at lake Toba, both of which are supervolcanoes.
If they go off, it's ... | Read More
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This work is copyright 2010
The moral right of Richard Jenkins (aka Rickj) to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright,designs and Patents act 1988.
This work is also subject automatically upon ... | Read More
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This winter has been one of the hardest and longest and coldest and snowiest for a long time.However, there doesn't seem to be any snow in Vancouver for the Winter olympic games which start this weekend.
Such is weather, such is climate.
The fac... | Read More
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I recently visited this country to adopt a little boy with my wife and we noted that misery had a name and the name was Haiti. Before the earthquake which struck on the 13th, the country and its people already had their backs to the wall. Water an... | Read More
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The sun has now produced over 40 spotless days in a row, and that puts this minimum into really top ten terratory.
Periods with spotless days (>20 days) since 1849
Perioden met vlekkenloze dagen (>20 dagen) sinds 1849
There are ... | Read More
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My changes would be
1) make all the verbs regular to follow modal patterns and get rid of the abbrevieated form.(i'm he's she's we're they're etc)
Verbs like 'to be' would just use one form 'be' and the past would be' beed' and the past partic... | Read More
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This blog will outline my thoughts about a recent trip to Haiti.
Visit to Haiti
13th June
We started our trip by leaving home to go to Nates at 13,40, arriving at Nantes for 14,20. plenty of time to drink some water and relax a bit. The j... | Read More
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This blog expresses personal views.
Well, the European elections have just taken place and now it's time to take stock and analyise the results.
Those electors who bothered to vote, and we must take note of the increasing trend of abstension... | Read More
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Ok, so I looked at the sunspot data from ice cores, now lets consider the data for beyllium 10 ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/greenland/summit/grip/cosmoiso/grip_10be.txtor as an excel fileftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/ic... | Read More