by Tom | Sep 23, 2008 | Personal
Ah, c’est moi. Apparently.
by Tom | Sep 23, 2008 | Business
Just like father-in-law, who doesn’t really want to warehouse his copper, but on a different scale: Dell focusing on marketing, not construction.
by Tom | Sep 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
There are lots of clinical trials going missing. What, do you think, is the cause? Is it because they were inconclusive or negative? It is important to get to the bottom of this, because the clinical trial is the gold standard for scientific proof in medicine. If this...
by Tom | Sep 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
An interesting argument (based on statistics, unusually) that suggests that peak oil may not quite have arrived yet. Summary: the figure usually quoted for reserves is from the left hand side of a normal distribution (where there is a greater than 90% probability of...
by Tom | Sep 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Won´t be a Googlewhack, but I loved the cartoon showing the effect of Lehman brothers on everyone – "we´ve grown up with credit thrown at us; we´re not used to actually buying things".
by Tom | Sep 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Looks like there is some useful information and thought-provocation at ChangeThis. Maybe I will spend some time reading back items – the one that caught my eye covered making presentations to small groups.
by Tom | Sep 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Nice idea for a brokerage site – take brand design concepts that never got beyond the drawing board and allow businesses to pick them up. Thanks to Marky Mark for the link.
by Tom | Sep 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
As part of my migration from self-hosted email with Google as the backup to Google as the primary and my site as the backup, I need the following: How to do calendars – requires Lightning and Provider extensionsGreat Thunderbird extensionsOpen source calendaring...
by Tom | Sep 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
I wanted to do something like this online site looking at the arguments behind various debates. It´s a good start, although I didn´t easily see how to get beyond a statement to a discussion. My tweak was to say "well if you hold this statement, then...
by Tom | Sep 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Interesting thought: will just-in-time delivery extend to fabbing items in your locality (with your own bespoke changes / detailing in a version of Kinko´s for example)? Does this provide insurance against global shocks? Can it produce a wealth of local...
