by Tom | Sep 23, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading
Child Hunger, As Seen At Wal-Mart is a depressing parable for our times. I’m working with prepaid cards at the moment, so this illustration is some serious colour for our round tables.
by Tom | Sep 22, 2010 | Personal
Very sad to hear the news that Doug Wilson died of leukaemia aged 46. He recruited me into Datamonitor and was a large part of the reason I joined. He was a good boss for me straight out of university and a good person. Read the tribute page from the company he...
by Tom | Sep 19, 2010 | Personal
There was a Fiat van in front of the cab on the way home tonight. I wondered if I should phone someone in it to give them directions. That’s choir tours do to ones mind.
by Tom | Sep 14, 2010 | Reading
THE campaign to legalise drugs was today backed by someone whose only qualification is to know exactly what he is talking about. via The Daily Mash – LEGALISE DRUGS, SAYS SOME CRAZY PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
by Tom | Sep 14, 2010 | Reading
Julian Baggini: Does the Facebook generation care about privacy? You didn’t get much privacy in a town of 1,000 people. Neither three-or-more-in-a-bed in a back-to-back. Nor working 12-14 hour days in the pits. The argument: our last 100 years of increasing...
by Tom | Sep 14, 2010 | Personal, Science
Placebo Buttons. Brilliant. I will use this alongside Wiffy’s emotional fact. I strongly believe that all the zebra crossing buttons I have tried at Archway are placebos.
by Tom | Sep 14, 2010 | Reviews
Plato had moral issues with pop culture. (NB the research on video games and violence suggests there is no link between video games and violence. I wish people reading “a 26% link” would correctly parse it as being “74% no link”.) Every time I...
by Tom | Sep 14, 2010 | Personal
I think it is right and just that the major constellation above us in Crete was Pegasus. Let’s hope it’s the same in Italy…
by Tom | Sep 13, 2010 | Business
ICON Group International has taken my Datamonitor report-writing macro (which I once used to generate a 1,000-page report and most of the text automatically) to the limit. Automated reports on companies and cities and, well, you name which facet you are interested in....
by Tom | Sep 13, 2010 | Government, Personal
1) I just found out that an old university friend is now deputy director of digital diplomacy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office just as my new report is published. 2) I discovered (by quite some roundabout means) that the place we are staying to sing in the...
