by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | Reading
Guernica / On Change in India. Interesting reflections on India’s route out of poverty. For me, I find it scarily similar it is to China’s.
by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | IT
I have found a nice plugin called DeployMint which allows WordPress to run in a staging / live deployment manner. It needs a fair bit of work to get it running on WHM/CPanel based on an existing site, so I’ve started trying to document it.
by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | IT
I had an odd thing where MusicMonkey 4 AutoDJ (essentially shuffle) stopped working: it would not add random tracks to the Now Playing list. After a bit of hunting I discovered that deleting all the files in the now playing list reset it and it suddenly kicked off...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Lots of great stuff around on China recently. China doesn’t seem to be attempting to be able to compete with the US, just ensure that China is the key player in the Asia-Pacific region, not the US. Apple is doing surprisingly well in China (it will be...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading
Cracking piece in the Economist reflecting on the US ten years on from 9/11. Americans are eager to cut their losses after a wretched decade and turn from nation-building abroad to nation-building at home. This instinct to move on is an admirable reflex that has...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading
Course schedule open, online and ready for the studying thereof. Nice.
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Business, Reading
It’s Not A Mirror, It’s A Crystal Ball takes a look inside TechCrunch and explains how their news reporting works and how it is different from traditional publishing. An interesting read on management style, disclosure and our craving for news.
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Very useful historical perspective and analysis of the current recession in the West. Summary: with the “rich” taking a wildly disproportionate cut of many countries’ income, the “middle class” (non-rich, non-poor) have run out of avenues...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading
I was surprised that I hadn’t really thought this through before: we clearly do things to babies that we would not tolerate doing to adults without their permission (e.g. take blood, deny them property rights). I understand that newborns would find it hard to...
by Tom | Sep 7, 2011 | Reading, Science, View
NASA releases stunning new moon-landing snaps. So sad that a large part of the era of manned space exploration is temporarily on hold. The pictures are gobsmacking.
