Good Bad Science on acupuncture - sham is no different to real.
Archive for September, 2007
I use “formal” proof correction marks most of the time, but also use them wrongly. Here’s a very clear summary (PDF) of how they should work.
Unrelated, but I heart fonts and I really like Quicksilver, so much so that I’ve faked up some core functionality in Windows using Macro Express (none of the other tools quite do it for me).
Apparently Gary Hamel is writing about network connected organisations (also known as wirearchy). FYI this applies to inside and between organisations.
I’m not sure that’s exactly the message that John Suffolk wanted to get across…
The Cabinet Office has effectively dropped the idea of requiring large
groups of Whitehall departments to merge their corporate services under
the transformational government initiative.
The way we use CRM means that we don’t really need “My contacts” as we mostly deal with everyone. So we need to change that default filter. It looks like the only option is client side javascript, and thankfully people have provided suitable options.
Update: I have now found that if I use the customisation interface to change the default form for the contact and organisation to Active Xs (instead of My Active Xs) I get the result I want without script. The default form has a little star on its icon in the list and you have to select More Actions>Set default to find the option.
It’s a pain to get an error that isn’t really an error. Fine that the spam filter doesn’t filter >3Mb, but why keep telling me?
Get the occasional one of these W32Time errors. Let’s see if these fixes work.
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W32TimePublic sector outsourcing will grow by £25bn by 2012/13. It doesn’t feel that way on the ground. Even a £10bn rise in services to government feels too low to interest suppliers.
Our e-Government services seem to work quite well in the latest Capgemini survey.
Oracle calls SAP “down market“.
Shared services are rolling.
Can you imagine the uproar if a foreign journalist interviewed a Western leader in this way: “What were you thinking”, “Why won’t you answer my questions”? Good on Ahmadinejad (or his superlative interpreter) for keeping calm.
I’m all for combative journalism, but asking lots of “Please trot out a soundbite” questions just isn’t working for me.
Is it just me, or is the title “Baby animal love story” wrong? Cute pictures of orang-utang and tiger cubs, though.
This method of business development is the nearest I’ve seen to our model at ITW, but it isn’t quite there.
Caroline likes the fact that a Spanish village is trying a pied piper approach to get rid of voles (or campañol). Better than poison, I guess.
Two contrasting developments in sense-related technology:
- A simple pain inflicting ray could mess up warfare and massively enhance 4GW (imagine a terrorist cell with one of these: get rid of the guards at the X and then bomb it).
- Haptic sensors (here cat’s whiskers) can expand our understanding of the world.
I like Joel’s thinking about browser-based platforms. As he says, bandwidth and memory shouldn’t be constraints to knocking up a cross-platform development kit that has a core AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) library and compiles / speeds the JavaScript it creates. I’m sure someone is doing it already - and the comments suggest Google Web Tools.
Nice exhibition on conflict from Magnum
The NorthWest passage is open for the first time we know
ArsTechnica gets in to homeopathy
Would you leave a man with two dicks?
Miro looks interesting for the Mac mini. An open source video player that supports RSS directly.
Anto thinks this is a look at the future for Caroline and myself.
