by Tom | Jun 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
So I think I´d still go for a Pre over an iPhone (but who knows what today´s Apple announcements will be). Multi-tasking and a keyboard just seem like no-brainers for me. Even though it isn´t simple, being able to jump between email / contacts / text...
by Tom | Jun 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Retailers can make a 48% profit on used computer game sales. Now the publishers want a piece of it. I guess fair enough in some ways, but at the heart of it, surely a business that depends on us throwing away or keeping games that we don´t want any more has to...
by Tom | Jun 5, 2009 | Reading
My gut feeling (but who could trust that) says that decriminalisation has to be worth serious consideration for cost and benefit reasons.There is tantalising evidence from Portugal that using the savings from not prosecuting every user to provide free counselling and...
by Tom | Jun 5, 2009 | Reading
Lovely start to this piece:Managementtheory came to life in 1899 with a simple question:
by Tom | Jun 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
I´ve had no joy trying to print A3 size images on my A4 printer (architect´s drawings, etc). I need to print two A4s to stitch together as an A3. I tried the Rasterbator (shame about the name) and couldn´t get it to work. In the end I installed...
by Tom | Jun 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
Never a good thing to lift the lid on bona fide scientists and find bad practice. As an example, 23% of press releases from a selection of medical research centres didn´t mention the number of participants (in this study: 200 releases selected randomly from one...
by Tom | Jun 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
Conflicting thoughts from two sources. Should we be concerned that people can still make a living doing back-breaking work like these sulphur miners? Should we be horrified about the Aral Sea and the Amazon? Should we be enthused by mankind´s ingenuity in...
by Tom | Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
I know I´m not quite alone when it comes to this, but
by Tom | Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
After a useful call from Ben Goldacre, here are the wireframing tools that look useful for the sort of thing that I want to do: early conceptual website design. Question: is it better to get something that looks more or less like a website (e.g. paper sketch vs quite...
by Tom | Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
Looks like I shouldn´t aim for the Greens as a "spank the big party" alternative: opposition to nuclear power and GM in principle isn´t my position. And, sadly, there is a place for Zoos in conservation terms and I think probably for animal...
