Table synth

New modality of creating music using coded blocks on a table. Nice.

Happy anniversary

To Caroline and me. We’ve reached four years of marriage today. Not the best conjunction with the passport scare.

Users don’t look at ads

Interesting heat maps showing how little people fixate on the ads on a web page. But even so you’ll see colours / shapes / brands on the page so may get some communication across. I never see them thanks to AdBlock Plus, so it isn’t an issue for me.

China gets more scary

China has to come to a halt or find some serious new technology (which Lovelock doesn’t think will be possible):To put it another way, China now seems likely to need as much energy in2010 as it thought it would need in 2020 under the most...

Innovation and inclusion

Two items very close to things we’ve worked on before: Audit Commission on Innovation in local authorities and the eInclusion@EU project.

Images from space

Amazing how seeing the sheer scale of the fires in Greece and the enormous pall their smoke casts makes you understand what’s happening more effectively. I had a similar reaction to an image of hurricane Katrina.

Vista networking issues

Sounds like this registry fix is something I should change at home – I don’t listen to music at work very often.

Windows whois

Windows whois tool. Works well and is faster than most of the online ones.