by Tom | Nov 28, 2004 | Reading
A very informative survey of the future of IT in the Economist. The theory being that IT specialist skills in consumers will dissapear in the next 20 years, just as the requirement to have a mechanic on tap (which lead to the existence of chauffers in the early days...
by Tom | Nov 25, 2004 | Science
Oh My God It Burns! tests whether putting rubbish vodka through a Brita water filter makes it better. They say yes, I say “is this an add for Brita?”.
by Tom | Nov 25, 2004 | Reading
There are some fairly serious problems with the Treo 650s which relate to a new filesystem that massively expands file sizes. Amazing that this wasn’t spotted in a beta or something. Maybe I should hold off getting one before going to India…[Update: looks...
by Tom | Nov 25, 2004 | Science
The Worst Jobs in Science has some nasties. Anal Wart researcher; tampon squeezer. Shudder.
by Tom | Nov 25, 2004 | Reading
Ofcom is going to deregulate large chunks of spectrum and let market forces sort it out. Nice one, and would put us ahead of the US.
by Tom | Nov 25, 2004 | Science
The Ketchup Conundrum is simple to state, but difficult to answer: why do we only eat one kind of ketchup? I used to like a Sainsbury’s Italian ketchup, but I think they’ve binned it.
by Tom | Nov 23, 2004 | Personal
The Coast-to-coast walk tops trek to Everest. Now it certainly wasn’t as strenuous as Everest no doubt is, but we had a great time on the c2c. We did it backwards (from Yorkshire to Cumbria) rather than the direction Wainwright suggests. Highlights (off the top...
by Tom | Nov 23, 2004 | IT
1001 Free Fonts is what it says. Some good ones there.
by Tom | Nov 23, 2004 | Business
Someone had a nasty run in with a Venture Capital firm. Some interesting thoughts there, summarised by saying that VC funding is very expensive and potentially painful for your firm.
by Tom | Nov 23, 2004 | Personal
Sherman’s Lagoon today reminds me of a silly story from my past: my mum finds me upstairs (age of five, maybe?) and says "why have you written your name on the wall of the staircase?". I say "It wasn’t me". She says "Yes it was. 1)...
