Tag Archive: News


2012: that sounds like it should be in the future. It isn’t, of course; it’s in the present (well, the ‘now’ bit of it is at any rate). Every year for the past half decade at this time I’ve thought to myself ‘I really must do something with the web site’. And then, erm, I don’t. Well, this year I really must do something with the web site. Now, whether the addition of italics will actually make a difference or not I don’t know, but it’s worth a try.

I think one of the problems I’ve had before is trying to make this less a personal site/blog and into something it isn’t (such as read by a large number of other people). So, instead this time the site is going to be a much more self-indulgent mishmash of things I want to talk about and random other rubbish. At the very least it may be an interesting insight into my psyche for my daughter in years to come after I’ve departed this mortal coil, possibly in some kind of supermarket trolley rage revenge attack.

Here’s to 2012. :)

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I heard on the news this morning that somebody (who turns out to be Nicholas Sze who works for Yahoo) has spent some time calculating pi to a staggering 2,000,000,000,000,000-and-a-bit digits. This is all very well, but it did rather make me wonder that, after you got past about the first thousandth number, couldn’t you just make up a bunch of random digits? I mean, is anybody really going to check? They’d need a pretty big calculator to type the number in, for starters.

This prompted me to create my own Random Pi Generator which you can hopefully see in the iFrame below, or by following this link here.

If you’re interested, you can also read the full news story at the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11313194