by Tom | Nov 28, 2008 | Reading
Illuminating solar blinds. Great idea. But you’ll need another curtain to cover them when you want to sleep (or do they have an off switch?).
by Tom | Nov 27, 2008 | Reading
Not the best pictures I’ve seen, but amazing how fast China reacts. I doubt we’d have a waste dispoal factory up and running six months after floods. Sichuan’s earthquake, six months later.
by Tom | Nov 25, 2008 | Science
How could you avoid getting distracted by the view? Just extraordinary that we can construct platforms to do this and take this kind of picture. Science and technology don’t have have a counter to religion, heh?NZ from space
by Tom | Nov 21, 2008 | IT
Pdftk is a free PDF maker, splitter, joiner. There’s a graphical front end for it that is cryptic but functional. CutePDF appears to create good looking PDF files, and is also free in its basic incarnation.
by Tom | Nov 17, 2008 | Reading
Big Picture: micro. Not sure what I like best here. Not the Obama heads, certainly.Snout
by Tom | Nov 14, 2008 | IT
SystemRescueCd seemed to work quite effectively in helping get information off a crashed Vista installation. It took me ages to work out what to do, heaven help anyone who has never heard of mounting a filesystem. Works nicely as a bootable CD.
by Tom | Nov 13, 2008 | Science
Adversity, often in early life helps you prepare for success later, according to Gladwell. There’s the nub of something in there – but what about people who come from adversity and are not successes? But I can see that learning to get around problems, or...
by Tom | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
I hadn´t come across these pay for a bid / seat auctions. The way that MadBid resets the clock on a bid each time a bid is made is maddening. Not for me – all we need is for someone to create a sniping tool and then it will be relatively pointless. Also,...
by Tom | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
My DataWaz days make me suspicious of any CAGR figures, but there does appear to be some life in the public sector shared services market after all. Just as the programme I used to run moves away from this topic.
by Tom | Nov 12, 2008 | Reading
A new interface to web history (temporal web content) looks very interesting, although it feels that you’d need a serious system to run it, Video of Zoetrope from Technology Review.
