Kester Brewin

No doubt about it, Sharp are clever people. They’ve developed an LCD screen that shows 3 different images, depending on your viewpoint. As Far East Gizmos put it, “these displays have allowed Sharp to once again create new demand and contribute to the creation of new lifestyles.” Call me a grouch, but is part of [...]

Our car, a truly horrible beast, has been making strange noises from the engine for about a year. In January our mechanic deemed it a fatal problem: it wasn’t worth the cost of fixing, and it might run for 2/20/200/2000 miles. It did about the 2000. Which got us over the Severn Bridge into Wales [...]

Great to see a fabulous line up for critiquing the Emerging movement. Eight. White. Men. “I hope that the movement or conversation in its present form will increasingly divide between those who deeply and intelligently desire to be faithful to Scripture while learning to communicate the gospel to a younger generation, and those who, whether [...]

“You say I’m violent once more, and I swear I’ll smack your head in” The furore over the Pope’s ill-chosen comments created an interesting debate on the radio this morning. It seems that his apology has not been enough for many Muslims, who have reacted to his perceived accusation of Islam being a violent religion [...]

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I watched a student at school take a shortcut today. And then watched as they were followed by countless others, taking a few quick steps on a worn brambly path, while a few others took the concrete slab route round and about. I’m guessing that eventually the school will give in to the inevitable, and [...]

Great article in Wired at: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71763-0.html?tw=rss.index At first sight, a computer is a system that seems “clean.” Early mainframes were housed in dust-free rooms bathed in unvarying white light. Nobody ever got physically dirty handling a laptop. The computer-using proverb “garbage in, garbage out” is just a metaphor; nothing physical goes into a computer, and [...]

Let There Be (Solid State) Light “I hope the award of this prize will help people to understand that this invention makes it possible to improve quality of life for many millions of people. This is not just a source of light that makes enormous energy savings possible, it is also an innovation that can [...]

The stats are simply astounding. The US has approximately 5% of the world’s population. And uses 25% of the world’s electricity. And fully one third of that goes on air conditioning. That’s 8% of the world’s electricity on keeping you guys cool. 7 billion gallons of petrol a year are used in US car air-con [...]

On a school trip to the (excellent, and oft neglected) Museum of London a couple of months back I was struck in the foyer by an exhibition which included this work ‘Morning Rush’. Having a while to look through their shop after the tour – a compulsory part of any trip with kids, I can [...]