by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | IT
I have finally started the switch over to using Google GMail as my main mail host and my personal hosting as a backup. I have often had problems copying messages between accounts in Thunderbird (slow, sporadic crashes) and there was no difference with GMail –...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | IT
Or so they say!
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Reading
Interesting idea to use a share ownership modela to manage fish catches and stocks. Sounds like a formalisation of what would have happened pre-regulation. Is it the wrong time to be suggesting that the market can make this kind of thing work?
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Reading
Interesting analysis of the Congressional votes on the bail out. Summary: if you are retiring and don’t care about voters you voted for it; if you are in a close fought seat, you voted against it. Everyone else was evenly divided. I like the factoid: $700bn...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Reading
Some great stories on consulting presentations. I still enjoy two Datamonitor stories based on overhead projectors (yes I’m old):“Hi, my name is Dean B.”. Turns on projector which promptly explodes. Meeting adjourned.Ali picks up her first slide and...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Science
Yikes – they are pretty out there. Example: “Computation at Scale: How can we develop asymptotics for a world with massively many degrees of freedom?”
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Interesting point from Robert Peston – if the Bamp;B collapse could end up costing the city firms
by Tom | Sep 29, 2008 | Business
Interesting point from Robert Peston – if the Bamp;B collapse could end up costing the city firms
by Tom | Sep 29, 2008 | Science
Great chutzpah to flash your flashlight for the time needed to not damage this long exposure. Amazing.
by Tom | Sep 29, 2008 | Reading
Zappos has a very interesting take on enthusing customer service throughout an organisation. Thanks to Levitt for the original link. If the story is still bandwidthed out, the Google cache is here
