Ian Gent's Blog

If you buy a new Sony ebook reader, you can get a million or more books free for it. Is this the ipod moment? I love the idea of havi...

I lied, there's nothing I hate about the Prius. But there are two irritants that aren't good enough. 1) The rear windscreen wiper ...

I have finally worked out how to drive the Prius. For 18 months I've been averaging about 50mpg (imperial), which is not a joke since ...

One thing I had no idea about until I investigated. Within very wide limits, the number of pages in the proceedings has almost no effect on ...

Today a colleague announced a meeting by email, and I emailed to ask where it was. He replied to say "read the subject line" whi...

I'm in the middle of chairing the Programme Committee (PC) of CP 2009, the major conference for Constraint Programming. In fact I'v...

This will mean nothing if you are not a mathematician or that way inclined. If you are it's probably wrong. Somebody today brought up t...