by Tom | Aug 16, 2013 | Personal, Reading
If you send a message to an electronic service, the service has to process and often store the message. You might value the processing enough to pay for it, e.g. to scan for spam, allow full-text indexing, back up your local information. If you don’t like what...
by Tom | Aug 14, 2013 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Hong Kong launches mass evacuation as Typhoon Utor shuts down region There was no evacuation in HK, only in Hainan and mainland. The HK shut down was standard for the wind speed.
by Tom | Aug 14, 2013 | Reading, Science
This is utter brilliance. The ISS travels 1,000 miles in the time it takes to listen to a famous pop song. What a story arc. If you like xkcd you should follow what if as well.
by Tom | Aug 7, 2013 | Business, Reading
I’m always interested in new ways of managing companies, and Holacracy looks like a good one. My summary: distributed decision making with purposeful discussions of issues. Saw a review of Medium’s use of the practice and will need to investigate further,...
by Tom | Aug 7, 2013 | Reading
smth (Send me to heaven) is an awesomely silly idea. Do you dare join the silliness?
by Tom | Jul 25, 2013 | Reading
Brilliant, as always. It tasted like someone stole the balls off a pegasus and blended them into a smoothie.
