by Tom | Mar 24, 2009 | Reading
More great time lapses of change on earth. See the earlier ones.
by Tom | Mar 21, 2009 | Science
What a cool experiment to be able to do. Fly a balloon 30,000m into the atmosphere and down again.
by Tom | Mar 21, 2009 | IT
Worth a go to see how this cloud computing works. At $0.125/hour that’s $90/month for a full-on server in Amazon’s cloud. Not bad value, methinks, although much more than my VPS which is $200/year.
by Tom | Mar 21, 2009 | IT
A quite interesting idea: you can send your contact details to someone via text without having to fiddle with beams and bluetooth. Telling them to text “tomraggett” to a short code (50500) is a neat solution.
by Tom | Mar 20, 2009 | IT
Despite the relatively hard sell for their product, the ability to see what Spam Assassin will do to your email before you send it off to 30 people is very useful. I guess they might harvest your email address; only time will tell.
by Tom | Mar 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
At least at the volume end, I can see Nielsen´s point that giving first chapters away for free will force authors to ensure that you are reasonably gripped by the end of the first chapter. What it would have done for me and 2666 is, sadly, unknowable. It was one...
by Tom | Mar 19, 2009 | Business
Some great guidance on how to make a community of practice really work.
by Tom | Mar 19, 2009 | Reading
Nutters, all of them. I’m surprised at how little the sea appears to be affected by the eruptions: I guess I was expecting tidal waves and the like.
by Tom | Mar 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Shirky believes newspapers are unlikely to survive. A question to ask yourself: Why should WalMart subsidise a newspaper office in Baghdad? A quote to frame the thinking: society doesn´t need newspapers: what it needs is journalism.
by Tom | Mar 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Sadly, the ability to automate your album creation makes it less fun, but I quite enjoyed mine:
