by Tom | Aug 22, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Still odd to come back home from a summer beach holiday to somewhere that’s hotter than where you left. Great time in Bali, back to the grindstone tomorrow. Might just see the little master make a ton of tons, though.
by Tom | Aug 12, 2011 | Personal
Beautiful villa in Bali with butler and fizz. And relax. Coincidentally, we arrived on the day that the St Pancras Renaissance responded to my complainta with a letter addressed to Mr Haggett.
by Tom | Aug 10, 2011 | Personal, Reading
David Hume’s impact on causation. Reminds me why I liked philosophy so much. While the surface argument: “you can’t see causation, only regular occurrences” doesn’t make you change the way you engage with the world (e.g. playing billiards),...
by Tom | Aug 10, 2011 | Personal, Science
Minds like sieves looks at some new research on how the human brain is adjusting to the common availability of information (mostly on the world wide web). It suggests we are remembering less actual information and more about how to find information. This may or may...
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal, Reading
Google Voice just charged me (USD) $0.40 for 30 minutes of calls to landlines to check that my London-based family was OK (answer: yes). Great value. If I had called mobiles, it would have cost $2.00. Again, great value. Easy to set up and only asks for a $10 credit...
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Personal
Horrendous to see my home town torn apart: all best wishes and hopes for a peaceful dawn to everyone who lives there (and of course to those in other affected cities). It seems pretty impossible not to be close to some chaos: I don’t remember events kicking off...
