Spot the difference. Man that’s hard!
Archive for October, 2003
Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades. (Work friendly) What happens if you average out all of the centrefolds in Playboy. Nothing much, but I like the idea of an eigen-centrefold.
I’m getting more sold now I’ve seen some Treo 600 Pix. But then I just bought a dresser and a ton of crockery last weekend. So gadget spend is deprecated.
Who is the Center of the Hollywood Universe? Not Kevin Bacon, that’s for sure (check on the list later down the page). Thanks to Rick.
Lots of good Torrent links. Neil, you owe me one.
From VoxPolitics: Local councillors can now set up and run their own personal web
sites using Councillor.info, a service sponsored by the Local
Government Association to provide “click and build” kits for all 600
councillors in England and Wales.
This is the sort of thing that a) iMPOWER used to do and b) LAWs should enable. Sorry.
Continue reading ‘Web sites for councillors’
Armand Morin’s PopOver Generator works even in Firebird. Come on you open source lads - lets have a block!
I had no idea that the US FDA has approvedmaking healthy short kids taller with injections.
The milestone was passed July 25, when the Food and Drug Administration officially recognized the practice of giving supplemental injections of human growth hormone to healthy but short children who have normal levels hGh.
This is a substantial change. My question is whether the FDA should be allowed to make this kind of ethical decision on behalf of the US people? Surely its role is to make sure drugs are safe, not whether they should or should not be used.
Astonishing Earth Observatory images of the Wildfires Strike near Los Angeles and San Diego and the solar flares.
It’s the digestion process, not the chewing that uses energy while eating celery. Yeah factoid!
Phil Windley has a nice story of how loose coupling is the way to go in many cases.
Green Tea And Ginger Show New Cancer-Combatting Abilities. Great news for a) my mum, who’s just “discovered” green tea and b) me and the wife who eat loads of ginger spiced stuff.
How to introduce blogs to business. Just doing this. It’ll be interesting to see how it goes.
Open source citizenship looks at why some companies can’t easily contribute to the open source movement. I think that government is likely to be the driver here. All the projects I’m working on at the moment require any software produced (where possible) to be released to the public sector so that we get a build once-use many situation, rather than the build 400 times one that we currently have in the UK as each council tries to work out what it needs.
What Sony Tells Us is that 20k jobs are gone for ever in an attempt to a) win business in China and b) compete against China. As Mitch says, China is likely to be the new competitor for most every business sector.
New data says there’s lots of new data. Great headline, bizarre research that says new data (whatever that means) stored in 2002 is 500,000 times the Library of Congress’ entire collection. Which is a lot. However we transmitted four times this amount of information around the world in the same year. Which is a lot of transfer. I guess there must be a Moore’s Law-like effect here, with a factor that expresses that we’ll store as much informtion as we can given a certain price per Megabyte. This means that info storage should grow faster than our usage of speedy chips, for example.
Now that’s one hell of a Solar Flare.
I think I need a Knee Defender. I wonder if it works. But they couldn’t sell it if it didn’t, no?
Heather Rabatts (my chairperson) gets a beating down under.
Jonny notes that the Word of the day for his wedding day was nuptial. Ours was phantasmagoria.
