I love technology. I don’t necessarily mean gadgets and (specifically) not all the rubbish that some corporations produce in an attempt to make more money, but technology in its greater sense and as a concept. It is easy to be excited about and, specifically in this case, the computers we create enable us to better simulate atomic relationships, better develop/create toolsets on the micro and nano scale and therefore better make computers.

Just over a month ago I decided to start making yoghurt. Everyone does something, bread, pasta etc, but I eat a lot of yoghurt and decided that I could, with practice, come to a standard as good as the top-of-the-range ones while having complete control of what goes into them.

A few weekends ago I made confit de canard (the real way) following the recipe below. It was very good, although I had the heat a little high and so the meat was a bit tougher than I’d have liked it.

I found this great video by a professor at Nottingham University. He discusses the recent creation of Element 114, which has since been called Ununquadium, by accelerating and fusing Calcium with Plutonium.

I was bought a book called “An Utterly Impartial History of Britain” by John O’Farrell. It’s some 587 pages long and worried me greatly. But, one night I gave it a go and found that it was one of the hardest books to put down.