http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress Neil Moffatt voices his opinions Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:35:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I started experiencing strong pins and needles in my feet in December, and subsequently strange aches and pains, including a burning pain in my thighs that exerted a pulling effect on my kneecaps. I tended to let it ride since I have little faith in doctors, and found the routes on ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=155 I have been very busy writing a Web based Go game commentary site : www.learngo.co.uk/GoViewer/ListGames.php I wrote it using the new HTML5  canvas, and Javascript. Unsurprisingly, all browsers except Internet Explorer support it well. Let me know what you think. http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=154 The World Cup Final was characterised by some brutal tackling, perpetrated mostly by the Dutch. Sad though that is, it does not take much imagination to work out why. The simple fact is that the players can get away with it, the possible prize for victory more than justifying the risk ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=153 Time to put a cap on my religious comments. Either God does NOT exist or He does not care In the latter case, the examples of his failure to demonstrate care and compassion are endless. Maybe a neat one is the case of cojoined twins. Why would a God that cared ever go to ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=152 Oh what joy it is to be a light sleeper! Sure, if any crook were to try to get into my house, I would up and at him at a moments notice. Meanwhile, as a consequence if this genetic tendency to be super sensitive to sound otherwise buggers up many ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=151 I have had the best night of sleep for over a week and feel fabulous. But it may be in part due to an experiment I carried out. At 4:30, bird twittering awoke me. As I relaxed, each tweet arrested any slide into sleep. So I told myself to let the ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=150 I have finally concluded that my brain acts far too often in a way that is not best suited to my life. It acts contrary to my needs and desires and quality of health. Much as I would like to rectify this situation, much of the behaviour and habits of the ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=149 Even in well intentioned and well disciplined Scientific Research, there is a tendancy to attribute the correlation of one thing with another as implying a causal relationship. As Professor Kirsch illustrates, the correlation between large heads and the liklihood of large hats upon said heads does not imply head size ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=147 Many who know me actually do not know me. They know a little about me, but mostly allow my apparent superficial, over chatty ways to blind them to anything deeper. And they allow my regular frailalties to label me a hypercondriac. Whilst I agree that I can focus too heavily ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=146 Apologies for reusing this sleight on the Virgin group of companies. But it kind of sums up my experience today with a new Virgin V+ set top TV box. The saddest thing is not so much that I had problems, but that this was a totally predictable matter. I had a ... http://www.neilmoffatt.co.uk/WordPress/?p=145