by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Government
Interesting to see Cameron fail to throw a mug when thrown by questioning. Thanks to the Indy, we’ll all be skipping ahead to 1:57. Really not his finest hour, but he does get back to something like normal in the end.
by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Personal
Only because I liked the two different colours of Daffs in Green Park this arvo. Ours aren’t out in Archway, but that’s probably because of the building work.
by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Science
Nice thinking about how to deal with uncertainty in science and theory. I wonder if we shouldn’t just show lots of error bars. People would get a high/low/guesstimate presentation, I think.
by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Science
Good arguments in the article: move to a publish then filter model from a filter then publish one. Why? Peer review needn’t catch all good papers or weed out all bad, it panders to the bias of the reviewers and doesn’t have much upside for science. I need...
by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Tech
Google is a million processing units. That doesn’t sound very big. The fact that the largest cloud computing network on the planet is Conficker (a botnet created by a worm) is a little scary.
by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Reading
Fascinating note on a parallel reward system that is based on no one getting exactly what they want but being reasonably happy nevertheless.
by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Reading
I didn’t see this when it was being done. Here’s the details on how it was done. Who’d have thought Eric Whitacre was movie star like? Not a bad attempt at virtual singing by more than 100 people (only one in the UK, I think). The main issue for me...
by Tom | Mar 23, 2010 | IT
I was pleased to see that the equivalent of AppleScripts still work on Windows: I used the Find Dead Tracks javascript file to find the dead tracks in my albums (tracks with an exclamation mark next to them that you can’t play). The iTunes Folder Watch...
by Tom | Mar 23, 2010 | Government, Personal
Useful to get a view on candidates before the election is even called.
by Tom | Mar 23, 2010 | IT
If you have a Mac disk (HFS+ formatted in my case) and want to copy files from it onto a PC, you can using hfsexplorer. Hint: I needed to run it as Administrator on Windows 7 for it to autodetect my Mac USB disk. It then worked liked clockwork.
