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David is a married guy from Cambridge, England, UK.
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Member since Mar 31, 2005
I am a freelance science and technology writer based in Cambridge, England, writing on everything from astrobiology to nanotechnology by way of the mostr traditional fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, medicine, pharma, physics, and spectroscopy. You can read my latest ramblings at http://www.sciencebase.com/ as well as pick up cutting edge science news. I am a keen amateur photographer, karate enthusiast, guitarist and singer.

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APS Physics | FPS | Editor's Comments
Liked it 11:50am 1 review environment
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/editor.cfm
Climate change consensus, did you say? I don't think so. This just in from the American Physical Society (APS) essentially reversing its stance on anthropogenic climate change.
the physics arXiv blog & Blog Archive & The science of the Grateful Dead
Liked it 11:41am 1 review grateful-dead
http://arxivblog.com/?p=527
Good to see that Deadheads are alive and well at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. In the heart of one of the world's most secret weapons labs, these guys are hard at work developing a science of the Grateful Dead, the 60s psychedelic band that played together until 1995. Today, they take the world of theoretical physics by storm with their results.
194 Bugs Fixed in Wordpress 2.6
Liked it 8:15am 2 reviews blogs
http://www.sciencetext.com/194-bugs-fixed-in-wordpress-26.html
194 bugs fixed in wordpress 2.6 plus a stack of new features
The Skeptic magazine news page & Blog Archive & Science Blogging 2008: London
Liked it 12:42am 1 review science
http://skeptic.org.uk/news/2008/1171
Will you join us for the first UK science blogging conference?
OpenDrive - Free Online Drive and Syncing
Liked it Jul 17, 11:22pm 15 reviews internet-tools, opendrive
http://www.opendrive.com/
OpenDrive is like Dropbox, or even a Google Mail virtual drive, but a few enhancements. It's basically a remote drive for your computer, that allows you to store, share or back up files from your computer on the Internet. You can store anything and share it with anyone, right from your desktop. Start storing and sharing today. Free beta gives you 1 gigabyte and is available for Windows only at the moment, Mac coming soon.
Luke, I am Your Father: 8 Memorable Movie Misquotes
Liked it Jul 17, 9:14am 3 reviews acting, movies, quotes, casablanca, misquotes
http://www.flixster.com/articles/luke-i-am-your-father-movie-misquotes
Say that again, Sam?
Study: Site Redirects Abundant, Aid Phishers - Security Fix
Liked it Jul 17, 6:55am 1 review internet
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/study_site_redirects_abund...
Close your open redirects unless you want your site to become fishing bait.

"When someone else can manipulate your redirect and craft a link however they want, that can really hurt your brand. If you're eBay and you have an open redirect in your site, that makes it really easy for a phisher to incorporate the actual eBay site," in a link that ultimately forwards people to a counterfeit eBay page, Shue said.
The official update feed from the Google Apps team: Document, spreadsheet and pr…
Liked it Jul 17, 5:17am 1 review desktop-publishing
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/document-spreadsheet-and-presen...
Instead of starting from scratch, Google Docs now offers a wide range of document, spreadsheet and presentation templates that you can use to quickly get started on new projects.
WordPress as a Social Network?
Liked it Jul 17, 4:45am 2 reviews blogs, wordpress, social-media
http://www.blahblahtech.com/2008/07/wordpress-as-a-social-network.html
Could blogging and social media be better served by viewing Wordpress as a social networking tool? Wayne Smallman of blah thinks so.
What does DNA mean to you? #14
Liked it Jul 17, 4:39am 1 review genetics
http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/07/16/what-does-dna-mean-to-you-14/
DNA is meaningless.
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