by Tom | Oct 8, 2010 | Business, Personal, Tech
Having finally taken the plunge into wireless mesh network multi-zone sound for the house, I have to say Sonos is genuinely great. I have never experienced a system so easy to set up. All tech manufacturers should take note. It took 20 minutes. NAS scanned: check....
by Tom | Oct 1, 2010 | Business, Personal, Science
As usual, the IgNobel prizes are excellent. I very much enjoyed whale snot, curing asthma with roller coaster rides, wearing socks outside your shoes on ice. I absolutely loved the mathematical demonstration that random promotion of staff would lead to greater...
by Tom | Sep 28, 2010 | Business, Personal
I was proud of how I left ITWs branding. I’m not so sure on pwcs. http://goingconcern.com/2010/09/breaking-at-least-one-pwc-employee-isnt-sold-on-the-rebranding/
by Tom | Sep 23, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading
Child Hunger, As Seen At Wal-Mart is a depressing parable for our times. I’m working with prepaid cards at the moment, so this illustration is some serious colour for our round tables.
by Tom | Sep 13, 2010 | Business
ICON Group International has taken my Datamonitor report-writing macro (which I once used to generate a 1,000-page report and most of the text automatically) to the limit. Automated reports on companies and cities and, well, you name which facet you are interested in....
by Tom | Aug 11, 2010 | Business, Reading
The tyranny of chronology in journalism. Lots of thought provoking elements there. The attempt to make the atom of news somewhat smaller than the story is a good one, and not far removed from what I was trying to do at Datamonitor. (Which was making every data point...
