by Tom | Mar 2, 2010 | General
I am liking Wordbooker (at least the 1.7 beta 9 version; the release 1.6.1 didn’t work). I can now flow blog posts to Facebook and import comments from Facebook onto my blog. Given that the blog posts are mine and the comments are of interest to blog readers as...
by Tom | Mar 2, 2010 | Personal
Snigger. I have The Great Bear on my hall wall, but this might be worth adding. It would have been a nice easy trip to school on the reimagined Northern Line.
by Tom | Mar 2, 2010 | Reading
Fantastic chart and audio guide from NY Times showing quite how close the times were on the Winter Olympics skiing, sliding and skating events. I find it astonishing that there is so much consistency in who wins over the year given the minuscule gaps between athletes...
by Tom | Mar 1, 2010 | Science
…is very poor according to a new study, and the ones that preceded it. Summary: few claims in medical drug advertisements refer to high-quality studies that support the claims. This is not a good situation vis-a-vis homeopathy, for example.So my positive take...
by Tom | Mar 1, 2010 | Science
Apparently we’ve invented the mathematical techniques to recover high-resolution images from low-resolution samples. So all my harrumphing as CSI zooms in on CCTV images may be about to be invalidated. The technique uses the concept of sparsity (a friend’s...
