Posts made in January, 2010

2010 AL30 Close Approach

2010 AL30 Close Approach

What’s fascinating about near Earth objects is that they suddenly appear out of nowhere. This little missive – 30ft in diameter – circles us every 365 days (precisely and perhaps co-incidentally) and yet nobody knows what it is or where it came from. It passed between us and the moon recently. Had it hit the Earth, it would have exploded safely above us with the force of a small...

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New Year’s Resolutions Anyone?

I'd like time this year. To learn the piano or another musical instrument would be swell. I quit teaching and making docos last year. That means my source of income this year is Geoffrey Multimedia. I’m also doing a bit of work for my friends at Itomic as it happens. Interface design. Photoshop stuff. So I spent yesterday clearing out the cobwebs, updating Geoffrey and organising myself for...

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