by Tom | Jun 6, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Stanley main races, Tuen Ng festival and the Queen’s official birthday. What’s not to like about today. Incidentally, I love that this festival reputedly celebrates the suicide of a poet and has been transformed into eating, drinking and paddling....
by Tom | Jun 3, 2011 | Business
Thoroughly depressing reading on the USPS: it carries 40% of the world’s mail (563m pieces) employing nearly 600k people (second only to Wal-Mart). It made $67bn and a loss. It now sends more junk mail than first class and its business plans are based around...
by Tom | Jun 3, 2011 | Business, Science
Take a massively important underpinning of physics: symmetry and scale invariance are signs that there may be laws to be found. Apply this to biology and you get the astonishing result that Geoffrey West describes so well: There’s kind of one mammal, and every...
by Tom | Jun 2, 2011 | Business, Listen, Reading
I hadn’t really properly read the background to Ultra Violet (think of it as the industry’s preferred new way for us to buy DVD / Blu-Ray content). What’s different here is that it is designed to work the way we would like to: sharing around the...
by Tom | May 31, 2011 | Listen
Finally got round to listening to these: fabulous. Thanks to all who have shared the link over the last few weeks. via YouTube – The Bond Responses.
