by Tom | Jul 8, 2011 | Reading
Delivereads – Curated Content for Your Kindle. Nice idea. Testing.
by Tom | Jul 8, 2011 | Business, Reading
virtualeconomics: How little newspapers matter. That. Sad. #notw A quote about the UK from the US article I mentioned yesterday has been with me overnight. So I don’t think I’m out of line saying the tabloid culture is the newspaper culture there. That makes me...
by Tom | Jul 7, 2011 | Personal, Reading
For many years now (after an intervention by Wiffy and a friend that got rid of the centre parting) I have simply asked my UK barber for a number four back and sides and scissors on top. This does not translate. (The number four is a depth of cut on clippers, for...
by Tom | Jul 7, 2011 | Reading, Tech
It’s a labs feature, so you have to do some fiddling to enable it, but this is a great addition. Android Google Maps takes users offline. You have to choose to download the area around a location rather than have it happen automatically, but it covers a 10km...
by Tom | Jul 7, 2011 | Reading
Classic essay: What the papers won’t say. He also has more to say about the Chipping Norton set. Thanks to Alex for the link to an interesting perspective from the US.
by Tom | Jul 7, 2011 | Reading
Some collected readings from the last few days. China from a Russian perspective: China got special economic zones right, it learns from and adapts from experiences elsewhere in the world (the rule is to act gradually)Â The Chinese retain a strong sense of...
