by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Reading, Tech
Slightly overblown title, but there are good interviews with people you wouldn’t necessarily come across normally.
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | IT, Tech
Appcelerator sounds an interesting prospect for developing multi-platform (desktop and mobile) native apps using web technologies. It is open source, which makes it attractive. Now to work out a) their business model and b) their competitors.
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Reading, Science
DNA matches against the national database aren’t often used to solve crimes. Now 1 in 350 of crimes doesn’t seem high or low,really. I wonder how often DNA taken during an investigation is used? The figure in the article is that 33,000 (1 in 40)...
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading, Science, Tech
Checklists in surgery should be mandated given the extraordinary error improvements they bring. The interesting question is where else checklist thinking can be used.
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Personal
Useful Venn diagram explaining some less-than-polite terminology. But a bit like being happy to state that I’m an atheist (because I’m inclined to believe there isn’t a god, not just that I don’t know), I don’t mind being proud of being a...
