by Tom | Jul 31, 2008 | IT
Very useful stuff – I hadn’t seen Processing before – very impressive.
by Tom | Jul 31, 2008 | Reading
Nice. Personal selection from dudge.
by Tom | Jul 30, 2008 | Science
So the shrew that drinks beer. Certainly, it is worth some study, but surely it isn’t unusual? If I read the numbers correctly, they “drink the equivalent to nine small glasses of wine, or four and half pints of beer” over 12 hours. And this is 3.8%,...
by Tom | Jul 30, 2008 | IT
Nice idea for transferring large files: you can download while the file is still being uploaded. Not sure how it will deal with uploads / downloads that are abandoned mid way?
by Tom | Jul 30, 2008 | Business
Joel makes a good point in his latest column: your internal systems need to ensure that people can deliver effectively even on a bad day. There is a balance to be struck though: there has to be some flexibility on the ground so that staff can work directly with...
by Tom | Jul 30, 2008 | Reading
Apparently punt saboteurs are causing problems in Cambridge. There are fewer bridges in Oxford, so it shouldn’t be such a problem.
by Tom | Jul 29, 2008 | Reading
As the climate changes and the economy contracts, its good to see that mankind can worry about the important things: that the removal of the letter “a” can ruin a joke about blow jobs.
by Tom | Jul 28, 2008 | Reading
Lots of good reading on changing people’s minds; the value of free as a marketing tool and a classic of advertising lore from nineteenth century research.
by Tom | Jul 28, 2008 | IT
Lots of nice tweaks for GMail IMAP.
by Tom | Jul 28, 2008 | Reading
Make time-based slideshows of “lives”. Seems like a blip, to me.