The H index

It sounds a little more interesting than it is, The H-index. To scientists though it's a measure of what you've done in your career. Imagine that an entire career boiled done to one number. If you would like to know what the H-index is and find out a brief history of citation indices and the business of categorising and ranking science have a read of the Piece by Wired science and learn about Jorge Hirsch and his invention of the H-index.

http://www.wired.com/culture/geekipedia/magazine/17-06/mf_impactfactor

Tasers

I Actually agree that police should carry tasers. I like the Idea. I'd prefer to be Tasered than shot and possibly killed. There is a problem though and it's the people using the tasers they tend to just use them when ever and for what ever reason. It seems to happen quite frequently in the US. Travis County police recently used a taser to subdue a dangerous person who was pulled over for speeding. This person proved to be unco-operative and the policeman felt the need to taser the person to protect himself. Below is the raw footage from the police camera of the incident.

Oh just one other thing the person who had bee pulled over was a 72 year old great grandmother.

So how to stop incidents like this. Well maybe to carry a Taser you need to have experienced the pain it causes. Every policeman that wants to carry a taser will have to be shocked by one once then they can use them. If the officer is then ever found to be using their taser in a totally inappropriate way such as in the video above they will subjected to a full work day of being tasered once every 10 minutes with a break for lunch of course.

I'm sure that the fear of that happening would make people think twice before using their taser on grannies

New Template

Well as you all can see. I've decided to go for a new template. This one feels a bit cleaner and fresher. At the moment it's a little sterile but when I figure out how to add a picture behind the Title Again I think it will finish of the look nicely.

Other changes.....well I've also signed up to Twitter just to see what it's like. Interesting so far. You can just write out one thought, no long explanations, evidence, citations or Backgrounds. Just a single thought website or action. It's sort of like the What are you doing box in Facebook but I've set it up to be much more convenient. I added the twitter bar addon to firefox and now I just type something in the address bar on firefox and press send and hey ho I've made a twitter post. I have also linked it to here as, for the moment anyway, I'm updating twitter much more than here.

If any of you people decide to join twitter let me know and I'll follow your feed. Who knows it might be fun.