Archive for May 2008

Wikipedia: who’s copying whom?

Monday, 26 May 2008

In July 2006, another Wikipedia user left a message on my talk page to say that he had begun an article on renowned Leicester space physicist Ken Pounds, and noting that I was a Leicester physicist, invited me to contribute to the article. Although I was reluctant to write about someone I vaguely knew, the [...]

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Important notice: e-mails sent via this site lost

Saturday, 17 May 2008

I have just discovered an error which means that any e-mails sent via the “Send an email” link were not reaching me. The fault has existed ever since I updated my website layout in February. Anyone using the contact form to send a message will have been told “Your message has been sent”, but no [...]

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Income tax: they took my idea!

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Today the Chancellor finally announced what the measure would be to compensate people who have lost out due to the income tax changes. They are going to give all basic rate taxpayers an extra £120 by raising the personal tax allowance by five times that amount. That was the solution to the problem that I [...]

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