by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
@eddieizzard Caroline is loving the show. #
by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Business, Reading
It looks like the Taliban are in effect guns for hire for the drug traffickers in Afghanistan. If there was a legal business there, would the Taliban still get funding from farmers?
by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Personal, Reading
I have finally finished Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1000 pages, 10% of which are footnotes). It is truly great and worth a read for AFR, Eschaton, and a few moments of snort-out-loud humour. But, typically, for the hard books I have been reading recently,...
by Tom | Dec 4, 2009 | Business, Reading
Howzat. Eric Schmidt makes a good case that newspapers have themselves to blame. We send online news publishers a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle. That is 100,000...
by Tom | Dec 4, 2009 | Business
I don’t quite get limited purpose banking, but it feels like a credible route to restructuring the banking system to lessen the chance of a credit bubble. The Daily Mash on the other hand… “Bankers last night rejected calls to live in the real world...
by Tom | Dec 3, 2009 | Reading
The Google Zeitgeist 2009 leaves me strangely indifferent.
by Tom | Dec 1, 2009 | Personal
The Church is no more. Shame: it has been a regular source of amazement for us at the state of the people coming out of the Church at the Forum in Kentish Town as it kicks out around 16:00. Sheesh. Good luck Clapham.
by Tom | Dec 1, 2009 | IT
Google’s Favorite Android Apps. Some fun things in there.
by Tom | Dec 1, 2009 | General
WPaudio MP3 Player Plugin is a great plugin which adds an inline audio player to links which you have given the wpaudio class to, or alternatively all MP3 links. Check out some Pegasus Christmas gems as an example. FYI I had to edit the file...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Science
I have seen many reports of a 50% chance of a mild winter. As wiffy says, this means a) precisely nothing unless you can see the rest of the forecasts and b) is sloppy reporting as the phrase is “milder” rather than “mild”. And the (very...
