by Tom | Oct 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
Gladwell says genius doesn´t necessarily come at speed. I guess this links in to the 10,000 hours concept as well? It ws funny to hear the latter being mentioned on Radio 4 Thought for the day just after I had read about it.
by Tom | Oct 23, 2008 | Reading
Litlle or no chance of a table next year, but AA Gill liked it. “it is a masterclass in the metaphysics of how, what and why we eat, while still being dinner”. I’m afraid I have to agree.
by Tom | Oct 23, 2008 | Science
Just reading Yes! whcih looks like a silly business book, but is really about the science of how the external world affects our internal world. Many of the ideas are touched on in the latest Edge. If you don’t believe it about priming, go to the implicit tests...
by Tom | Oct 23, 2008 | Reading
As the first commenter, I really liked the Jerusalem lights.
by Tom | Oct 23, 2008 | Science
Gladwell says genius doesn’t necessarily come at speed. I guess this links in to the 10,000 hours concept as well? It ws funny to hear the latter being mentioned on Radio 4 Thought for the day
by Tom | Oct 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
Didn´t want to go downstairs to start iTunes so I can listen to our shared library in the office. SSH in and issue the command open -a itunes.app and all is well. Thanks to MacOSXHints for the information.
by Tom | Oct 20, 2008 | Reading
Jakob advises us that we get email wrong a lot when dealing with customers. Read on at Transactional Email and Confirmation Messages. Micro content is really hard to get right, and this confirms its importance.
by Tom | Oct 20, 2008 | IT
These magnetic cable clips look useful and not just for headphones.
by Tom | Oct 20, 2008 | IT
I really like the way that Weave syncs Firefox (browsing history, passwords, cookies, etc) between multiple machines (Mac, PC, Work, Home), but it has been flakey and I haven’t been able to get it working on my own WebDAV on my raggett.net site. So instead,...
by Tom | Oct 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Looks like there is a PHP bug that caused some of my links to get messed up on the blog. The standard entities like less-than and greater-than get removed from the script. Not sure who´s going to fix this, but here are some links to keep an eye on.
