by Tom | Feb 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
Nice to see that Ecotricity is still spending nearly 30 times its nearest rival in building new sources of energy. I´m sure there must be lots of negatives as well (e.g. wind farms kill birds), but we will stick with them for the near future.
by Tom | Jan 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
I hadn´t really got what FischerRandom was about, but I like the idea of making human-human interactions more interesting (by being more challenging). I wonder if the ability to memorise the big book of standard openings is so much of an advantage that you would...
by Tom | Jan 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Two good bad sciences: Don´t believe every statement you read: "Doctors say no to abortions in their surgeries" in this case. I bought the statistics book. How to present the real issues with screening: mammograms prevent 2 deaths in 1000 women aged...
by Tom | Jan 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
An option for my decision tree project: how government solves organisational problems and how the private sector solves the same sort of problems.
by Tom | Jan 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
If perception is everything, and people enjoy wine they are told is expensive, can wine be given a price other than derived from scarcity? Amusing thought: you get standard house wine, but are charged as much as you can bear to part with to be told you are getting...
by Tom | Jan 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Place (this is a slightly undefined concept in the UK, but I see it as focusing on the physical nature of "something´s" location) still matters to the US IT industry. As Hagel muses, isn´t it interesting that one of the most technologically...
