by Tom | Jun 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
I´ve had no joy trying to print A3 size images on my A4 printer (architect´s drawings, etc). I need to print two A4s to stitch together as an A3. I tried the Rasterbator (shame about the name) and couldn´t get it to work. In the end I installed...
by Tom | Jun 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
Conflicting thoughts from two sources. Should we be concerned that people can still make a living doing back-breaking work like these sulphur miners? Should we be horrified about the Aral Sea and the Amazon? Should we be enthused by mankind´s ingenuity in...
by Tom | Jun 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
Never a good thing to lift the lid on bona fide scientists and find bad practice. As an example, 23% of press releases from a selection of medical research centres didn´t mention the number of participants (in this study: 200 releases selected randomly from one...
by Tom | Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
I know I´m not quite alone when it comes to this, but
by Tom | Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
After a useful call from Ben Goldacre, here are the wireframing tools that look useful for the sort of thing that I want to do: early conceptual website design. Question: is it better to get something that looks more or less like a website (e.g. paper sketch vs quite...
by Tom | Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
Looks like I shouldn´t aim for the Greens as a "spank the big party" alternative: opposition to nuclear power and GM in principle isn´t my position. And, sadly, there is a place for Zoos in conservation terms and I think probably for animal...
