by Tom | Sep 5, 2011 | Business, Science
Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist. Monbiot makes a valid point: all publicly-funded research should be available at a low cost or for free. The Harvard route of a major institution binding its researchers to publish to a free source sounds...
by Tom | Sep 5, 2011 | IT
UNRAR for QNAP 439 Pro II+. Worked for me: /opt/bin/ipkg update /opt/bin/ipkg install unrar
by Tom | Sep 5, 2011 | Science
What is time? Good primer on some gnarly issues in the status of time. Ten things we should know about time is a great summary of some related issues.
by Tom | Sep 3, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Nice to don Seagods red and black again and looking forward to competing in the feeder competition in two weeks for next year’s internationals. The nice afternoon helps too. As does Handel on Spotify on my phone (tunnel mobile internet rocks).
by Tom | Sep 2, 2011 | Reading
xkcd: I’m Sorry. Cracking.
by Tom | Sep 1, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Arab Spring, Chinese Winter. Valuable if inconclusive discussion about dissent in China. One party seems to be losing regularly to democracy elsewhere in the world, so I would imagine it will do so in China as well. As the article says, it is the timing that is...
by Tom | Sep 1, 2011 | Business, Reading
The Local-global Flip, Or, “the Lanier Effect” is a long, wide-ranging muse on some potentially negative effects of the rise of the internet, “free” services and information concentrators. Some thoughts: I like the idea that what Google is...
by Tom | Sep 1, 2011 | Reading
The Technium: Why the impossible happens more often. I hadn’t thought through the full implications of the new social structures we are creating such as globally distributed reputation, massive collective collaboration. That these are the start of something is...
by Tom | Aug 31, 2011 | Business, Reading
The Post-it wars – in pictures. Thanks to wiffy for this. All offices should have one. Especially in HK where so many offices face so many others.
by Tom | Aug 29, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Lots of horticultural lightning in clouds directly above and dull rumbles while people get on with football practice. Who needs fireworks? Amazing.
