The petabyte age

Food for thought from Wired: what happens now we are beyond inundated with data.Can the standard hypothesise, model, test approach to science continue to work? (e.g. Google doesn’t understand web quality or languages, but there’s enough out there to let it...

Protest song

I was reminded of this Neil Innes classic today.This song’s a protest song.I’ve suffered for my music – now it’s your turn.

Multitasking = damaging?

Given that I try and have things like email alerts turned off when I am in the office, I guess I have to agree with a lot of the thinking around multi-tasking in this article. I need focused time to work on “thinking” problems; operational issues tend to...

Diary of a nobody

I had forgotten that Mr Pooter was based somewhere in Holloway. And you can read the whole book online.

Tories lovin’ Boris lovin’ it

Bozza has launched a review of the City of London’s future as the world’s leading financial centre. This must be manna for the Tories – get all the bigwigs on board, “align with” existing Labour initiatives and for an issue that will get...

Begbie sculpture at Wimbledon

A cool and unusual thing: my pa has finished a film about the installation of a David Begbie sculpture at Wimbledon – the BBC should show extracts at some stage. Nice one, pops. We bought them a Begbie sculpture for their wedding – I have strong dibs on...