in "Web Design" on Thursday, 21st February 2008 (9 months ago)
All change: AstroEngine.com now becomes a space physics concept website and www.eeron.com becomes my personal space...

in "General" on Saturday, 2nd February 2008 (10 months ago)
Punxsutawney Phil, the famous ground squirrel from Pennsylvania, predicts a long winter...

in "Sci/Tech" on Thursday, 31st January 2008 (10 months ago)
Recent articles published have stirred up some interest in some unexpected places.

in "General" on Saturday, 19th January 2008 (10 months ago)
Just a brief update, won't take long, I promise... :-)

in "Science Articles" on Friday, 18th January 2008 (10 months ago)
Another three articles posted on Universe Today...

in "Science Articles" on Tuesday, 15th January 2008 (10 months ago)
Another two articles posted on the Universe Today. One coving the progress of solar probe, Ulysses, and the second investigating the possibility of a virtual reality universe...

in "Personal" on Monday, 14th January 2008 (10 months ago)
After a month of looking for a successor, my old Vaio has finally been replaced... by my second Sony Vaio...

in "Science Articles" on Sunday, 13th January 2008 (10 months ago)
For my first article to be published on the Space.co.uk website, I decided to focus on the ill-fated UK mission to Mars: Beagle 2.

in "Science Articles" on Saturday, 12th January 2008 (11 months ago)
Found an interesting article about research into the possibility that life on Earth may have started on radioactive beaches. Thinking about it, it kinda makes sense...

in "Science Articles" on Monday, 7th January 2008 (11 months ago)
New Universe Today article posted about new plans by Virgin Galactic to launch space tourist flights through the Northern Lights...

in "Science Articles" on Friday, 28th December 2007 (11 months ago)
In a spate of writing writing fever, I've written two more articles for the Universe Today website...

in "Personal" on Monday, 24th December 2007 (11 months ago)
My laptop has gien up hope and crashed... possibly for the last time...

in "Science Articles" on Friday, 21st December 2007 (11 months ago)
I am now a contributor to the highly popular and excellent Universe Today website... starting with a review on the recent Hinode mission observing the Sun...

in "Computing" on Friday, 14th December 2007 (11 months ago)
One eventful evening, my girlfriend's computer began slowing down. At first a mild frustration, but it continued to get worse and worse. Soon a little icon popped up in the taskbar shouting nonsensical errors at her. Then came the popups. Floods of popups. After some research and many anti-adware, anti-spyware and anti-virus programs later, we thought all was lost. This was until we discovered our little problem had a name... "The Vundo"...

in "Web Design" on Monday, 10th December 2007 (12 months ago)
The internet is an ecosystem of websites, webcrawlers, spambots, spiders, hackers and botnets. It can get ugly out there. The "good guys" (us web designers) try to create great web pages that enhance a surfer's web experience, whilst dodging the countless security issues that come with a presence online. Yet, the internet is jammed with web pages that are not built to valid internet standards, ultimately slowing the flow of data and hindering net development. Here is what I found lurking in the non-valid World Wide Web...

in "Photography" on Friday, 7th December 2007 (12 months ago)
A picture of one of our young rabbits and a macro of a back garden grass hopper...

in "General" on Wednesday, 5th December 2007 (12 months ago)
From an article of one of the most chilling documented accounts of mysterious noises in the deep ocean off the coast of South America...

in "Web Design" on Tuesday, 4th December 2007 (12 months ago)
In an attempt to boost its relationship with a "young audience", NASA has completely redesigned their web pages with a jazzy, new interface. It looks cool, but has the organization become distracted by appealing to the "MySpace" generation rather than presenting good science?

in "Mars" on Thursday, 29th November 2007 (12 months ago)
Eight months on and Marspedia is growing quickly. New contributors are adding a stream of articles, from discussing social issues with building a colony on Mars to identifying emerging technologies that will help human kind get there...

in "Sci/Tech" on Wednesday, 12th September 2007 (over 1 year ago)
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has an impressive simulator used to track active NASA missions. Naturally only the sexy missions can be tracked, but it's great fun all the same...

in "Sci/Tech" on Thursday, 6th September 2007 (over 1 year ago)
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic releases the futuristic and inspiring designs of our planet's first Spaceport...

in "Personal" on Sunday, 26th August 2007 (over 1 year ago)
A journal entry to sum up the last few weeks and plans for the near-future... I am still here, honest :-)

in "Science Articles" on Wednesday, 6th June 2007 (2 years ago)
An inspired Mars-based design wins gold at this years Chelsea Flower Show, with significant implications for the Mars Foundations efforts for a manned settlement (article writen for the Mars Foundation on 05/06/07)

in "Mars" on Sunday, 3rd June 2007 (2 years ago)
This new "scout class" Mars lander will pave the way for future habitation of the Red Planet. How will it do this? First and foremost, find water... (article writen for the Mars Foundation on 01/06/07)

in "Personal" on Wednesday, 30th May 2007 (2 years ago)
Deb and I spend a long weekend in New York... All my expectations are surpassed - that's the way to build a city!

in "Web Design" on Monday, 21st May 2007 (2 years ago)
The Mars Foundation website gets an extensive remodel. Version 2.0 of MarsHome.org features new Flash graphics and complete redesign...

in "Web Design" on Monday, 14th May 2007 (2 years ago)
Astroengine claims GOLD for the "Reach for the Stars Award", May 2007!

in "Web Design" on Sunday, 13th May 2007 (2 years ago)
From my experiences on how to optimize websites for search engine crawls; keywords in the title do seem to grab attention...

in "Web Design" on Thursday, 10th May 2007 (2 years ago)
In my biggest and most varied project to date, Cheek2Cheek Dance Studio's upgraded website goes live!

in "Web Design" on Sunday, 6th May 2007 (2 years ago)
A keyword list is a useful way to gain an overview of a website, astroengine.com can now be browsed more effectively...

in "Web Design" on Wednesday, 2nd May 2007 (2 years ago)
To make it easier to maintain uploads on astroengine.net and to upload lots of new content, I have changed my "Photo Gallery" section into a "Photo Diary"...

in "Science Articles" on Tuesday, 10th April 2007 (2 years ago)
Recent observations by the armada of NASA's and ESA's satellites have produced a wealth of high-resolution images of features on the Martian surface. Most discoveries have been positive for future Mars pioneers whilst others have caused...

in "Web Design" on Wednesday, 4th April 2007 (2 years ago)
A new section of astroengine.com comes into being... a dynamic art gallery...

in "Solar Physics" on Thursday, 22nd March 2007 (2 years ago)
Hinode makes some detailed observations of the solar chromosphere... but finds something unexpected...

in "Mars" on Friday, 16th March 2007 (2 years ago)
Marspedia, a wiki, is launched to allow collaboration between the Mars organizations.

in "Solar Physics" on Tuesday, 13th March 2007 (2 years ago)
The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory calibrates its instruments by using the Moon to measure dark current...

in "Web Design" on Monday, 12th March 2007 (2 years ago)
Petchyindee.com gets an award!

in "Web Design" on Tuesday, 6th March 2007 (2 years ago)
MarsHome.org gets a makeover... but it might take some more time...

in "Solar Physics" on Wednesday, 28th February 2007 (2 years ago)
SunEarthPlan.net launched by the UK solar-terrestrial community, an excellent example of collaboration and communication.

in "Sci/Tech" on Wednesday, 28th February 2007 (2 years ago)
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission takes a breathtaking shot of the Martian surface.

in "Sci/Tech" on Saturday, 24th February 2007 (2 years ago)
Fireworks, a comet and a lightning storm, all in the same photograph... more than just excellent timing?

in "Web Design" on Thursday, 22nd February 2007 (2 years ago)
The introduction of PHP, MySQL, integrated web logs and RSS feeds

in "Mars" on Tuesday, 13th February 2007 (2 years ago)
The colonization of Mars and my involvement with the Mars Foundation.

in "Personal" on Sunday, 28th January 2007 (2 years ago)
My reasons for contributing to the online encyclopedia "Wikipedia"

in "Web Design" on Friday, 26th January 2007 (2 years ago)
Site launch announcement

in "Web Design" on Saturday, 13th January 2007 (2 years ago)
Site launch announcement

in "General" on Saturday, 30th December 2006 (2 years ago)
Clubbing in Hollywood when Dan and Les come to visit

in "General" on Thursday, 28th December 2006 (2 years ago)
Some interesting trivia

in "Sci/Tech" on Thursday, 14th December 2006 (2 years ago)
...but Houston, we have a problem!

in "Science Fiction" on Thursday, 7th December 2006 (2 years ago)
We all miss Serenity

in "Personal" on Wednesday, 29th November 2006 (2 years ago)
My first invited presentation