by Tom | Jun 8, 2011 | Science
Lots to marvel about. A long exposure shot of the Space Shuttle Endeavour shows streaks of city light caused by the earth whizzing by at 17,000mph below. The sun belched out a billion tons of material only to have it mostly fall back on its surface. And finally a star...
by Tom | Jun 8, 2011 | Personal
Alleyn`s School, March 1987 brings back some great memories of school. I’m amazed and thankful for university for getting rid of the Sarf Lahndon accent! See Jude Law avoiding the camera for one of the first times, too.
by Tom | Jun 8, 2011 | Business
Short logic (Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal) has some compelling analysis which makes Groupon look like a bubble business (my description). Others call it an insolvent Ponzi scheme. Companies that move away from GAAP have to be suspicious, even if they are...
by Tom | Jun 8, 2011 | Science
Brilliant Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
by Tom | Jun 6, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Both teams in the gold cup final at Stanley International and we won it. And my team came tenth (out of 144). Respect! Now boozing on a yacht. Lovely.
by Tom | Jun 6, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Stanley main races, Tuen Ng festival and the Queen’s official birthday. What’s not to like about today. Incidentally, I love that this festival reputedly celebrates the suicide of a poet and has been transformed into eating, drinking and paddling....
by Tom | Jun 3, 2011 | Business
Thoroughly depressing reading on the USPS: it carries 40% of the world’s mail (563m pieces) employing nearly 600k people (second only to Wal-Mart). It made $67bn and a loss. It now sends more junk mail than first class and its business plans are based around...
by Tom | Jun 3, 2011 | Business, Science
Take a massively important underpinning of physics: symmetry and scale invariance are signs that there may be laws to be found. Apply this to biology and you get the astonishing result that Geoffrey West describes so well: There’s kind of one mammal, and every...
by Tom | Jun 2, 2011 | Business, Listen, Reading
I hadn’t really properly read the background to Ultra Violet (think of it as the industry’s preferred new way for us to buy DVD / Blu-Ray content). What’s different here is that it is designed to work the way we would like to: sharing around the...
by Tom | May 31, 2011 | Listen
Finally got round to listening to these: fabulous. Thanks to all who have shared the link over the last few weeks. via YouTube – The Bond Responses.
