by Tom | Apr 28, 2009 | Science
Although it has been used as a description of my hair in the sunlight, this time I mean the galaxy we live in. This isn’t it, but it is what we think it looks like.
by Tom | Apr 28, 2009 | IT
McK has argued that cloud computing isn’t necessarily a panacea for larger businesses. There’s been some serious argument about their numbers. For a smaller company, I can’t see much reason to roll your own. The likes of Amazon have thought through...
by Tom | Apr 28, 2009 | Science
You’ll quite often find something interesting (read: supporting your point of view) if you analyse a subgroup of an otherwise negative larger group. This one should be taught alongside the “screening for very low probability events” problem.
by Tom | Apr 28, 2009 | Science
Extraordinary that people are more worried about terrorism than the economy and that they think everyone else is different. We’re clearly all insane. Then again, since when are surveys ever really valid?
by Tom | Apr 27, 2009 | Science
I love starting a submission to a subcommittee discussing CO2 emissions with two quotes from the bible (summary: we don’t get to chose to destroy the world, that’s god’s purview, so CO2 emissions can’t be an issue for us). I wonder how many...
by Tom | Apr 27, 2009 | Personal
Five minutes for a printed to order paperback. Neat. But I’m trying to buy second hand where possible: why create yet more books if we don’t need them?
by Tom | Apr 27, 2009 | Reading
Some great pictures from behind the scenes of the first 100 days. It does look a little like a version of The West Wing. I chose this picture because I like the idea that he was thinking before he spoke.
by Tom | Apr 24, 2009 | Reading
I very much liked the iBus technology (not that I knew what was, then) whose voice prompts helped me get off at the right stop on an unknown route. Previously I’d been using Google Maps’ cell-tower location feature to guide me in. I liked the spin the...
by Tom | Apr 24, 2009 | Reading
I think the Russians might have this one right as well: $1.50 for standard, $2 for High Def films. I’m trying a download of Frost/Nixon as a tester (update: about two hours for the download on normal BT 8Mb broadband). I haven’t bought a DVD for me for far...
by Tom | Apr 23, 2009 | Reading
Madoff’s fraud was so big that it is likely that most of the cash went back to investors during the Ponzi period. Ponzi got more than two-thirds of money for himself. The Madoff family are not multi-billionaires (as far as we know).The UK shouldn’t worry...
