January 30, 2009

UK Spring Weather

To the extend that the "Embrace the Mud" campaign isn't doing the job, a car trip could be a solution. After studying my collage of Met Office average data, it looks like we are off to the South East coast...

January 27, 2009

Counterexample of the day

For a little while we thought that there was an extension to Earnshaw's theorem. But there isn't: it is quite feasible to have fully confining rf traps with nonzero field at the center.

January 18, 2009

"Embrace the Mud" campaign off to a flying start.

Turned out my new bike and neoprene socks were a perfect match for this trip through (literally!) the English countryside.
Main lesson: There are bridleways and there are bridleways.
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