by Tom | Aug 20, 2014 | Business, Reading
Must read for any print journalists and for any ad-supported business. Ad money moves around, often catastrophically. Try to imagine a world where the future of print is unclear: Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable...
by Tom | Aug 18, 2014 | Hong Kong / China, Personal, View
I find this music properly hard to read (musically: not solely because I only know 10% of the characters). It may be that the text and notes are in such perfect alignment: I am used to sight-reading with them offset (the note is almost always smaller than the...
by Tom | Aug 12, 2014 | Personal, View
One of the less good things about 10-15cm of rain today is that our lovely lawn becomes pretty much a paddling pool. The picture doesn’t do it justice, but it’s an 2cm deep. Shows the drainage works, though.
by Tom | Aug 12, 2014 | Science, Tech, View
First-person Hyperlapse Videos. Very impressive post-production technique for making everything shot on a GoPro look scarily smooth.
by Tom | Aug 8, 2014 | Personal, Reading
Two very sad but interesting perspectives on society’s treatment of women. I’m all in favour of reclaiming words* that have some negative connotations . Can we do it with feminism? (*Aside: my take on “bossy” is that we should call boys it if...