Internet activity bias wrecks impact analysis

Internet activity bias wrecks impact analysis

by | Sep 16, 2013 | Business, Tech

Fascinating article from Jakob Nielsen highlighting a real problem for measuring the effect of marketing on internet usage. An experiment on whether users were more or less likely to visit Yahoo having seen a promotional video showed the following: the thick blue line...

Possibly my favourite FB status ever

by | Sep 11, 2013 | Reading

“Things you don’t really want to happen: being caught in the lift singing along to ‘I touch myself’ by the Divynyls, with your eyes closed, while looking a bit of a hot and sweaty mess after a lunch time jog. Oh, and you REALLY don’t want...
Reptiles of Hong Kong

Reptiles of Hong Kong

by | Aug 31, 2013 | Hong Kong / China

16 turtles, 23 lizards and 55 snakes. Those numbers seem to be the wrong way around for most people… That said, its a useful resource to help identify critters you see out and about.

Buffett on pension fund managers in 1975

by | Aug 31, 2013 | Business, Reading

I hope I have even 5% of his wisdom when I hit 44. Don’t mind on what subject, but something would be nice. “If above-average performance is to be their yard stick, the vast majority of investment managers must fail. Will a few succeed — due to...

Whom

by | Aug 22, 2013 | Reading

I’m not a massive fan of “whom” – it can sound a bit arch for my liking. But I’m being won over… Whom is vocabulary drenched in bourbon, monocles and mustaches. How and why to use whom in a sentence – The...
“Explorers, not colonists”: space isn’t easy

“Explorers, not colonists”: space isn’t easy

by | Aug 21, 2013 | Reading, Science

Must read account of an unusual occurrence on a space walk. Amazing that we take the existence of the ISS for granted now, and it is nothing compared with what we need to do in space (and I strongly believe we can work on climate change and poverty while pushing ahead...