by Tom | Sep 25, 2006 | Reading
Brother-in-law gave me a pedometer for my birthday (it measures steps taken using a pendulum-swinging system). I thought this was an interesting present, even a pre-emptive intervention (”Are you calling me fat?”). The manual suggests 10,000 steps per day...
by Tom | Sep 25, 2006 | Reading
And then some. What can’t he balance and knock down? Thanks to Amanda for the link.
by Tom | Aug 31, 2006 | Reading
Not sure I agree with the conclusion, but this book may be worth reading for interest.Designers, inventors, teachers,storytellers — creative and empathetic right-brain thinkers whoseabilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who...
by Tom | Aug 31, 2006 | Government
A minimum of three departments, money, leadership and an extensible contract / OJEU? That’s shared services for government. Nothing like that since Whitehall 1 was cancelled due to “business case” issues – e.g. it didn’t stack up....
by Tom | Aug 29, 2006 | IT
Now that Pocket GPS World charges for POIs, you can still get free ones at POIplace. [Update: try POI Edit as well to help manage the POIs you are installing.]
by Tom | Aug 29, 2006 | Business
Would you watch ads to get free, quality music for download. Yes, I’d do that, I think. Now, if Microsoft was funding it, that would be a very clever way to get back at Apple’s dominance of this market. Also, if you could pay extra for a higher-quality or...
by Tom | Aug 28, 2006 | Government
I didn’t realise Grainger was asking quite that much!
by Tom | Aug 28, 2006 | Government
Alan Mather lists some of the reasons that shared services are tricky in government. The Power, Control, Trust trio probably holds in the private sector as well, but there is a P for Profit in there that tends to drive harder than the other three.
by Tom | Aug 25, 2006 | Reading
Amazon launches a utility computing system. It’s more expensive than I pay (ten times more – which is cheap when you think about it given reliability) but is based on Amazon’s systems, which I imagine are pretty scalable and reliable. A very interesting...
by Tom | Aug 25, 2006 | IT
Have been having horrible spambots on my wiki (with various recipes and personal stuff on it). I’ve tried a combination of things to try and combat it.Long list of anti-spam featuresOne stop fix for most “hidden divs”Turn off anonymous editsTurn on...
