by Tom | Nov 19, 2009 | Reading
2009 UN World Drug report in pictures . Depressing photos: many from Mexico are simply incredible. Real life is definitely keeping ahead of the movies, and not in a good way.
by Tom | Nov 19, 2009 | Science
Saturn. What would Galileo have thought if he could have seen these images?
by Tom | Nov 19, 2009 | Reading
Sometimes The Big Picture is depressing, because all of the photos are far better than you could ever imagine taking. Certainly true of these animal photos. I particularly liked the pygmy hippos: …the paddleboarding next to a whale… …and the Gaza...
by Tom | Nov 17, 2009 | Business, Government, Reading
Surowiecki has a couple of articles looking at banking and debt. He wonders if the crisis has meant that banks have become bigger, or at least the ones that we feel comfortable using. Seperately, he suggests (and I think rightly) that we are predisposed to use debt...
by Tom | Nov 16, 2009 | Government
£3k doesn’t sound like too much to run a Twitter account for BIS. I guess it depends how many followers they have and what benefits that gives to the Department, of course. You can find other costs on a TheyWorkForYou search.
by Tom | Nov 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
@jwatson1 You must grow old faster. I like The Archers now. It helps to keep up-to-date with the handy summary in The Week, of course… in reply to jwatson1 # @sarahmoule air chat: I should have warned the wife. She thought it was bye bye I love you. Sadly for...
by Tom | Nov 13, 2009 | IT
Because you’ll run out of space for apps, et al, you’ll want to use the apps2sd functionality built into your custom ROM and so you’ll need to manually set the right partitions on your SD card.
by Tom | Nov 13, 2009 | Business
I think the nastiest comment I took out of the Times’ Goldman article was the seeming attempt to square: “We are doing moral, valuable work” and “if you don’t like what we’re doing, we could just do it elsewhere”. It just...
by Tom | Nov 13, 2009 | Reading
I think Sholto is right on two fronts: that the first female mufti could be the thin end of a wedge towards equality for women in Islam. Secondly that any change to the status of women in Islamic practice needs to come from within Islam, rather than imposed from...
by Tom | Nov 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Spaghetti Carbonara on a hill by the Colosseo in Rome. In honoriam ITW Friday pasta. # My first tweet from a plane in the air. We're over 3k ft, because that's what the system says. Few people using their phones as yet. #
