by Tom | Mar 31, 2011 | Business, Reading
Killer quote from a fascinating article about the growing potential in self-publishing from an authour who turned down a $500k advance. I believe they’ve gotten their business model mixed-up. They should be connecting readers with the written word. Instead,...
by Tom | Mar 30, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Modern engineering (including but not limited to nuclear) came through the Japan earthquake and tsunami pretty well. Loss of life due to infrastructure collapse was surprisingly low. I don’t mean to downplay the loss of life, home and security or the ongoing...
by Tom | Mar 24, 2011 | Business, Reading
In the middle of some excellent chart unjunking comes some slightly surprising data: iPhones have a substantially higher market share than any competitor in the over 55s. The same is true for Android in the under 25s. Not earth shattering, but not what I would have...
by Tom | Mar 23, 2011 | Business, Reading
I find myself wondering what the NYT is playing at in its new pricing model (kudos for the Times reporting on it): it is cheaper to have hard copy delivered direct to a recycling plant and use your linked online subscription than it is to subscribe on multiple...
by Tom | Mar 23, 2011 | Business, Tech
Amazon revokes Lendle’s API access is a regularly updating summary of an Amazon spat with one of its “who’d have thought of that” ecosystem companies. Amazon allows you to lend Kindle books to other Kindle owners for 14 days. During that time...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | Reading
Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? Definitely right that they should where possible. At one stage, I thought that the user comments sections might help keep journalists at the top of their game, but seeing the varied signal to noise ratios in articles...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
So I came out of our apartment ,dropped down to street level, met a friend randomly and walked up steps uphill to reach pretty well the same height as my place. Photo is looking back from the top of the steps. 27 floors in less than a minute per floor. Not to mention...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | Reading
Bridges is a beautiful collection of places where Google’s automated bridge scripts don’t quite work with the landscape. Rather splendid if they did exist in that form, no?
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | IT
A kind soul has packaged up CrashPlan as a QPKG making life a little easier than the slightly complicated install we previously needed. It should work for ARM with a bit of fiddling too. The JRE it requires isn’t linked on the page but is easy to...
by Tom | Mar 22, 2011 | IT
I have been trying to turn on SSL on one of my websites now I have a (cheap at £14) RapidSSL certificate. The site (hosted on CentOS, CPanel, WHM) was working fine under HTTP, but when I tried to access using HTTPS I got a 500 Internal Server error. Looking at the...
