Nice 12-step summary of how to find things. The best advice is knowing when to stop and wait for the object to pop up of its own accord.
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
Gotta watch Feynman in action! Presentation Zen has a set of contributed presentations that look well worth the time. Oh yes, when will I find the time?
Interesting point from Sviokla: RFID requires a smart centre tracking dumb parts on the edge. Maybe this works for 80% of inventory, but it is the 20% that it doesn’t that causes all the problems. So smart “motes” might be the answer which add some smarts to the tricky 20% to feed them into the system that runs the 80%. This general idea – use a system that works for most everything and then innovate around the edges has to be a good rule of thumb.
The lads at work have been trying to generate the mother of all sandwiches.
The current one, which has defeated all but Richard is as follows.
Bread: Soft ciabatta bread with ketchup on one side, mayo on the other.
Filling: Bread-crumbed chicken escalope, crispy bacon, cheese and sliced onions with optional Tabasco on top.
It ends up five inches square. FIVE INCHES! It costs over a fiver.
Caroline suggests that it should be toasted and that that would allow more fillings in, as the grill would crush the sandwich.
Sounds like a spam name, but is actually what I found on the front porch this morning at 1:30am after a noise woke me up. Yup, our thieving chums came back. They once again didn’t get in, but jemmyed the window up half an inch – my DIY screws-in-the-frame held. Hurrah. Continue reading ‘Menacing dustbin’
Alan Mather is absolutely right – people won’t vote if they can’t find anything out about their candidates. I have been postal voting for the last couple of elections, and it has been near impossible to find out anything of any interest or that would help me chose. I can find out who they are and write to my existing councillors.
Surely there’s a mysociety.org thing out there? I couldn’t find anything, so I suggested one.
Separately, I have been advised to vote LibDem if I’m anti-war, and to worry about the CPZ.
Caroline points out a nice battling artist blog – like Fark’s photoshop competition, but only two of them. I wish I could even draw as well as Mr Squiggle.
Great name! More seriously, Guy points to him as an excellent source, and he’s right.
- Why doesn’t Disney create whole new mobile experiences? Equip everyone who goes to Disneyworld with a device and you’ll soon get a sensible working population.
- Is Wikicalc a disruptive spreadsheet?
- What are the new 4Ps of marketing?
- Presence (not place)
- Persuasion (not promotion)
- Price (dynamic) not price (static)
- Personalisation (not product)
Good stuff and thoughtful.
Dom does his first full-on blog post, and its a cracker. “bye bye little man” will become a catchphrase in casa Raggett, I’m sure.