In my previous post I tried to expose what I think is a huge logical inconsistency at the heart of some arguments against genetically engineered plants. I did so, however, using a very abbreviated argument that, I now see, could only be easily followed by those who know the subject. And that was foolish because those who already know the subject are not the people I hoped would read the post.

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A little conundrum. One of the worries of campaigners against genetic engineering of crops is that genes stuck into plants will escape and create, for example, superweeds. You don't need genetic engineering to achieve this, of course, but it helps. Along comes a technology that promises to neutraliz...

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Very odd. Flickr insists that “your blog posting failed”. But here it is anyway. I’m editing this in ecto, just to make life simpler. But the point of this post is to sing the praises of DoubleTake, a beautiful Mac application that does one thing -- stitching panoramas -- really well.¹

I foun...

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Elephant washing

Originally uploaded by Jeremy Cherfas.

I’m actually just testing this to see how blogging from Flickr works. It would save masses of time and effort (both of which are in short supply) to be able to do this kind of thing.

Later ... Odd. Flickr said that I had faile...

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Just passed a very pleasant hour or so doing what passes for gardening at this point in time and this place in space: transplanting cacti. I bought six of the little things at Ikea about a year ago, and imperceptibly they’ve grown. Time for bigger pots. But here’s the weird part.

As soon as I had...

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