by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Quick check of Ping.fm to ensure that the plugin is setup correctly. I think this could be a neat way of posting to multiple online places using my blog as the driver. This keeps all my information mine and means I shouldn´t have to worry about a new plugin for...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Neat idea to get related images based on the image, not text. It doesn´t quite work as well for shoes as does Zappos. Their new "what´s being bought and where" map is brilliant. Another nice idea is to use Google to predict the trend of values...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
As I have often stated, I´d pay a steady $10-20 each month for (a limited number of tracks of) real music that I could own, if only someone would offer it to me. However, in the meantime, I buy albums I wouldn´t buy the whole of via the Russians. This...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Great set of video lectures from a wide range of institutions. Question: can you get more information in to your head this way or through reading? I´m not sure yet, but I´d love to have had this when I was studying.
by Tom | Apr 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Taleb on what should happen next. As John Robb says, none of these will occur. He also has an interesting chart from the Economist suggesting that the value extracted from labour over the last thirty years has gone somewhere other than to the labourers. Showing the...
by Tom | Apr 16, 2009 | Personal
How is it that we can still allow two identical looking trains to leave for opposite destinations at the same time from two adjacent platforms? Definite heart in mouth moment until the announcement came on (once we were moving). Get your act together Oxford!
by Tom | Apr 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
I know I’m not quite alone when it comes to this, but: We need to be more transparent about salaries. People are always uncomfortable when I mention earning details (maybe because I’m doing OK and it comes out as arrogant / threatening; it isn’t...
by Tom | Apr 8, 2009 | Business, Reading, Science
This is the first really public “download a CAD file and laser cut your own version” that I’ve seen with designer furniture. There will be lots more of these in the future.
by Tom | Apr 8, 2009 | Science
It’s a somewhat freaky thing, but a great idea: can we mimic learning patterns?
by Tom | Apr 8, 2009 | Reading
Mount Redoubt goes up in some style. Amazing photos.
