by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Funny seeing Ciudad Juarez in the news so much: it is the basis for Santa Teresa in 2666. I hadn’t seen pictures of the US border fence before. Just shocking that we have to come to this (or the equivalent in Palestine). Haven’t we learned anything since...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | IT
Unusual for Nielsen to like any new-fangled navigation, but mega drop-downs are good. Anything “funky” that Microsoft introduces (like the ribbon in Office 2007) has been through a serious amount of user testing so should be seen as well worth considering....
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | IT
Visio is expensive and very few people have it. So I should probably try these online alternatives. Certainly Lovely Charts is pretty, but you have to subscribe to use it on more than one chart in anger (fair enough, but I’d have carried on using it if I could...
by Tom | Mar 24, 2009 | Science
Dennett will be delighted. So it is an asterism, but it does look like you can hang your coat, no?
by Tom | Mar 24, 2009 | Science
Lots of excellent time lapse videos. I particularly liked the northern lights, it redoubles my desire to see them at some stage, having not had any to speak of when we were in northern Finland.
