by Tom | Mar 29, 2010 | IT
Nicely simple WordPress theme for use as a base for a more sophisticated look. Used on Lords of the Blog.
by Tom | Mar 29, 2010 | Business
Lots of good stuff in this McK Quarterly interview with Daniel Kahneman and Gary Klein and interviews on strategic decision making.The premortem: we’re in the future looking back, why did this project fail so badly?Avoid correlation errors: get people to vote on...
by Tom | Mar 29, 2010 | Reading
Egads. I thought the whole point was to get rid of the clocks going back and forth (and standardise on Summer Time), not to just shunt it forward an hour. And what a name! I doubt I could sell single double cream and get away with it. To be fair, the benefits are the...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2010 | Reading
Zoophiles Make Scientists Rethink Human Sexuality is a fascinating read. You’ll learn what a plethysmograph is, for a start. And after you’ve got over your inbuilt “yuk” you might think seriously if there is a genuine sexual orientation in...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2010 | IT
Freebase Gridworks would have been amazingly useful at Datamonitor. Really user-friendly ways of cleaning up large quantities of grid-shaped data.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2010 | Reading
A timely reminder that the Twitter comedy hashtags are so derivative of excellent work with years and years of history:Â FARKers nail this photoshop contest.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2010 | Reading
Thanks to Ben for pointing out this cracking byline in the Times article Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals. Is this nominative determinism by proxy? It will be the first hit on Google for it, so maybe I have invented something....
by Tom | Mar 26, 2010 | IT
Ben asks me to post this cracking desktop wallpaper. There’s a blank one, should you wish to try it yourself.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2010 | Reading
“Hand out mephedrone in nightclubs” is how Nutt’s most recent intervention has been presented. That’s not quite what he said. Onwards, legalisation.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2010 | Tech
AppBrain looks like a nice idea: browse and install Android apps from a web page rather than from the phone. It is much easier to read a chunk of comments this way than on the machine.
