by Tom | Jun 25, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Final races tomorrow, so lots of sadness. But what a lovely day to paddle on. Scorchio.
by Tom | Jun 24, 2011 | Business, Reading
I wonder if any aspiring author should think about self-publishing. Why? Just look at the changes in the publishing market right now: Rowling to work Potter magic online (cutting out Amazon and Apple’s cut). $0.99 Kindle eBooks with reasonable sales. And you can...
by Tom | Jun 24, 2011 | IT
10.6: Enable native NTFS read/write support – Mac OS X Hints. Very useful for those of us with Bootcamp running so the one machine is a Mac and a PC all in one. Slightly spooky, but it works very well. The hint works straight out of the box: it is much more...
by Tom | Jun 23, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Terrifying article in Spiegel about the lack of any sensible options for the Eurozone. Time for Plan B: How the Euro Became Europe’s Greatest Threat. I’d be keen on a nuclear option, because at the moment, it appears that the main effect of the pressure on...
by Tom | Jun 23, 2011 | Tech
First gadget envy for a while. A light field camera captures more of the image in front of it than traditional sensors, so you can dynamically refocus the image after you have taken it. It also allows for some immersive 3D effects. Worth clicking through to the...
by Tom | Jun 23, 2011 | Science
Lots of marvellous “wow how complicated nature is” moments while looking at these images of fluid flows. I particularly liked the bouncing silicone oil. The Weird and Beautiful World of Fluid Dynamics.
by Tom | Jun 22, 2011 | Reading
I hadn’t come across Tetlock’s research on predictions. He carried out a 20+ year project with people who made a living from predicting the future. He asked them to predict outcomes and the likelihood of outcomes. The “experts” were not...
by Tom | Jun 22, 2011 | Business, Reading
A Brief History of the Corporation. Astonishing riff on where business will go next. I hadn’t really got how independent the East India Company really was, and quite how much Britain had to do to help cement its brief hold on the world. I sincerely want to...
by Tom | Jun 22, 2011 | Business, Reading
The Big Idea: Before You Make That Big Decision… has a useful set of questions to ask before making any big decision where other people’s thinking is important. Which is pretty well all decisions. I’m a big fan of the premortem: working out what the...
by Tom | Jun 22, 2011 | Business, Personal, Tech
The downside of Facebook as a public space: Censorship has a critical point for all of us. Facebook, Twitter et al are corporate entities and have their own corporate ethics. This can result in outcomes we might see as negative (c.f. taking down pages in error). When...
