by Tom | May 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Useful guide to getting presentations right. I have to confess that a few slides at my last conference didn´t pass the squint test and several were bullet-only. But this is fixable, of course.
by Tom | May 29, 2009 | IT
Given that you can do this online, I guessed that there must be instructions for doing it yourself.
by Tom | May 28, 2009 | Reading
Glad to see that English nuttiness has a following in Boston… a) the hill is really, really steep and b) what would have to possess you to do it nude?
by Tom | May 28, 2009 | IT
Useful Windows Mobile backup / sync service from Microsoft. Why not have your stuff backed up somewhere else, given that 200Mb is free?
by Tom | May 27, 2009 | IT
Who knew that a computational engine could have a sense of humour? I liked the “Human discourse: additional functionality for this topic is under development” when asking it “Are you a robot?”. It was vaguely useful when trying to assess the...
by Tom | May 26, 2009 | Science
More non-science. Shame; we were just looking for an excuse. Genetically-engineered mouse bacterial infection anyone?
by Tom | May 26, 2009 | Reading
One for future reading: 37 data-ish blogs. The topics are interesting, and I’m guessing the blogs will be as well. Can’t possibly read them all though, so some personal selection would be in order. Is there an opportunity for an aggregator/filter blog...
by Tom | May 26, 2009 | Reading
I’m not sure whether it is due to doing some work on pre-paid cards, but the Caxtonfx card seems like a very good idea for purchases abroad. Summary: you load money on the card and spend it abroad, without the FX fees you would normally attract. they also look...
by Tom | May 26, 2009 | IT
There are some good examples of the benefits of shared electronic health records from the US. Why can’t we a) manage to avoid the data loss / sharing issues that everyone is convinced will occur here and b) why can’t we package up the benefits for the UK...
by Tom | May 18, 2009 | IT
Some useful additions here when I finally get round to getting a work site set up. Roll on June.
