Posts by mrrrk

Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right

The engineer or achitect may have been familiar with a device of the time called a 'digitiser'. In a manner somewhat similar to a mouse, it's used to precisely click points on a 2D surface for digitising physical drawings. And the coordiates are absolute in relation to the digitiser surface, not relative like a mouse. This may have led to the confusion!

Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity

Fifty Pound Note

James Clerk Maxwell needs to be on the new fifty pound note. He's British (ok, Scottish) and he's up there with Newton and Einstein - but no bugger's heard of him. Put his equations (instead of some simple unit definition attributed to Tesla) on the note and that'll really fox the parents...