by Tom | Apr 8, 2009 | Business, Reading
Long read, but worthwhile. My take outs: our financial models aren’t necessarily built to simulate the scale of depression we are currently in, as we haven’t experienced one for as long as the models have existed. Spending (and therefore national debt) is...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2009 | Personal
I’m on the register and carry a card. Sign up: you know you should.
by Tom | Apr 6, 2009 | Personal, Science
More depressing reading from bad science. The thing that gets my goat at the moment is reporting numbers without context and trend (7,000 bad things happening could be really bad, or it could be part of a 25m cohort in which case it isn’t too bad) or large...
by Tom | Apr 6, 2009 | Business
Interesting thoughts on price sensitivity and scaling of online properties: Assume for example that a service serves photos (like Flickr), and that the hosting, bandwidth and distribution costs, fully loaded, are c $0.10 per month ($1.20 per year) per person. For 100...
by Tom | Apr 4, 2009 | Reading
Funny seeing such violence on streets I walk down regularly. That said, a lot of the people (not all) who were fighting look like they wanted a fight. Also, the RBS computer people were three protesters surrounded by load of paparazzi, not real people.
by Tom | Apr 4, 2009 | Reading
I’ve not been to many of these. So we’ll have to fix that
by Tom | Apr 4, 2009 | Science
I’ve often thought that a lot of science (think early post-grad experiments) could be done by robots. It sounds like they are well on the way there. Surprisingly, they are doing the more cerebral stuff as well.
by Tom | Apr 4, 2009 | Business
Apparently businesses should be grateful for people surfing the net at work. They’re 9% more productive.
by Tom | Apr 4, 2009 | Business, Reading
Lots of interesting reading here: why did bullet points emerge and what alternatives do we have? I love the 20/30/50 image idea (ask people to speak for a minute mentioning the image that is on screen, sitting down when the image changes). Great ice breaker at an...
by Tom | Apr 4, 2009 | Personal, Reading
Aretha and Annie were wrong. I have a sister, so therefore I am happier. That means wiffy is not?
