by Tom | Dec 8, 2009 | Reading
Bonuses no longer linked to being good at things and Poor people are so tedious made me laugh.
by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Business, Reading
It looks like the Taliban are in effect guns for hire for the drug traffickers in Afghanistan. If there was a legal business there, would the Taliban still get funding from farmers?
by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Personal, Reading
I have finally finished Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1000 pages, 10% of which are footnotes). It is truly great and worth a read for AFR, Eschaton, and a few moments of snort-out-loud humour. But, typically, for the hard books I have been reading recently,...
by Tom | Dec 4, 2009 | Business, Reading
Howzat. Eric Schmidt makes a good case that newspapers have themselves to blame. We send online news publishers a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle. That is 100,000...
by Tom | Dec 3, 2009 | Reading
The Google Zeitgeist 2009 leaves me strangely indifferent.
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Reading
Females more sociable? Well we knew this anyway, but interesting that it is duplicated on the more sociable networking sites (indeed, there are often more females) rather than the more geeky ones.
