by Tom | Apr 9, 2010 | IT
It must be increasingly hard to build a stand out website thanks to the availability of clever tools such as Wingify which helps anyone do fairly sophisticated web optimisation and alternative version testing. At a price, of course, but the value should be pretty...
by Tom | Apr 9, 2010 | Business
While the article can feel a little gushing, on reflection, I think there is some truth in this:While others think entrepreneurs are taking risks, entrepreneurs don’t see it that way because they have thought things through extremely well. They also believe in their...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2010 | Personal, Science
The restriction granted by the BRCA1 gene patent covers essentially everyone. Hopefully this ridiculosity will help overturn other gene patents. How does a string of nucleotides extant in the human body count as a process, design or new invention?I wonder if Ben...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2010 | Government, Personal
So we’re off for a general election. Journalists are delighted because 1) they can see a month’s worth of reasonable-to-good headlines and 2) that they can genuinely influence the political process thanks to exposing gaffes, slip-ups and spin and changing...
by Tom | Mar 29, 2010 | Reading
Lorks: people are sailing off with Indonesian islands. 24 since 2005. And who knew that the Child of Krakatoa is rising at 1cm each day?