by Tom | May 12, 2011 | Business, Reading
I hadn’t heard of Steven Sasson, Eric Fossum, Joseph Woodland or Bernard Silver. They’ve just been inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of fame for the invention of the digital camera, camera-on-a-chip and bar codes (sort of respectively). Nice to...
by Tom | May 12, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Tabata Training is the result of research that evaluated a novel interval training approach that can give very good results. The basic plan is to go as fast and hard as you can on an exercise for 20 seconds, rest for 10 seconds and repeat eight times. Doing this...
by Tom | May 11, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
We got both Seagods boats into the Gold Cup final at the Stanley Warm-up on Tuesday, and the A boat deservedly won by a country mile. My boat was the fifth runner up (our gold cup says so!). 5th out of 50 or so boats really isn’t bad, especially as we are mostly...
by Tom | May 11, 2011 | Business, Personal
It’s the second time someone I know has done The Apprentice. Good luck to Tom P (ex-colleague and even house mate at one stage). The reviews suggest he has already made his mark in the show by apologising to Lord Sugar (no-one does that) and being sensible about...
by Tom | May 11, 2011 | Science
Wonder and Mystery above the Very Large Telescopes is a pretty innocuous description for a breathtaking, mind-expanding photo of the solar system. Click the link, scroll the main photo and read the text. Outstanding.
by Tom | May 8, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
We didn’t win the main event, but two great races meant we came away with silverware.
by Tom | May 8, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
06:30 start on Deep Water Bay race day. Not a clue what the day holds other than some hard paddling followed by beer at 15:00 or so.
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Reading, Science
Another new one to add to the list of books for psychologists. The argumentative theory argues (of course) that we developed reasoning to help us evaluate other people’s arguments and to try to convince them of ours. Not for searching after the truth, which...
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Reading, Science
The books and journal articles all psychologists should read has a lot of interesting sounding reads. I particularly like it when people say: “I read the original and realised I’d been misquoting / mis-referencing it for years”.
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Business, Reading
Cracking Dilbert This has happened to me more often than I care to think.
