Congratulations to ITW’s first qualified accountant achieved while working at the company.
Archive for August, 2007
Interesting heat maps showing how little people fixate on the ads on a web page. But even so you’ll see colours / shapes / brands on the page so may get some communication across. I never see them thanks to AdBlock Plus, so it isn’t an issue for me.
Interesting thought about a new product line for banks.
Useful backup application, I think.
NB no cats were harmed in the making of the movie.
China has to come to a halt or find some serious new technology (which Lovelock doesn’t think will be possible):
To put it another way, China now seems likely to need as much energy in
2010 as it thought it would need in 2020 under the most pessimistic
assumptions.
[Links from John Robb: JRo no longer]
Nice summary of the new tools being used to visualise data and information. I’m not sure their trendmap and a mindmap are the same thing, though.
Windows whois tool. Works well and is faster than most of the online ones.
Sounds like this registry fix is something I should change at home - I don’t listen to music at work very often.
Amazing how seeing the sheer scale of the fires in Greece and the enormous pall their smoke casts makes you understand what’s happening more effectively. I had a similar reaction to an image of hurricane Katrina.
Two items very close to things we’ve worked on before: Audit Commission on Innovation in local authorities and the eInclusion@EU project.
Two APOD things of note:
We missed the Perseids this year - partly by being in the southern hemisphere (just) and partly by having a cloudy night. Roll on next year.
Amazing picture of a cloud (maybe) caused by a sonic boom.
The iRiver has finally died, or feels like it. Time to work out where to go next. There are lots of buying guides for alternatives. Question is a smaller lighter flash player the way to go?
So it looks like a toss up between the gen 5.5 iPod or the Creative Zen Vision:M. Not having an iPod is always good, but the iPod is so much easier to use. However, there are new iPods out in a week, so time to hold back, I think.
Looks like the 18-200 VR is the lens to go for. Maybe a present for the future - slightly longer range and vibration reduction.
Sounds like I could have got a better camera than the Nikon D80, and the kit lens was definitely too short for full-on safari work, but it still took some fantastic photos. Now it is time to update the firmware.
To Caroline and me. We’ve reached four years of marriage today. Not the best conjunction with the passport scare.
New modality of creating music using coded blocks on a table. Nice.
Nice.
Scary, but true. You can light a match with a DVD laser (and some soldering skills I don’t have). Shows 1) how good lasers are and 2) how much technology there is in what we see as simple things.
