I think the idea of GPS units talking to each other to understand traffic conditions is an excellent one. So long as the contributors are anonymised, it can’t but help improve travel conditions.
Archive for October, 2007
Flightstats looks useful - tracks flight information wherever you are. They have a mobile version that does the business.
Looks like there is a mobile train timetable still as well as a WAP version of TfL.
I like the synchronicity thing: Pepys had bad weather and a stinking cold last week. Same as me.
While the Palm install tool continues not to work on Vista, Pilot Install does the job.
A thoughtful summary which explains to me why I had a bipolar reaction to the reported comments of James Watson last week. His quoted comments are very close to the bone: but you have to do the “what if” test and see how you would react if you assume he is talking about religion, race or gender. So while I think he was foolish to say them, and that he comes over badly, this doesn’t mean that he should lose his career over it (or that he wasn’t trying to make a potentially serious point that the kerfuffle will have obscured).
I am very much in favour of fixed-term parliaments. Slightly uncomfortable with the company I keep on this issue (especially the bloggers). I am surprised that no Labour MPs have joined.
Interesting thinking around issues for Google - I hadn’t thought through the implications of its not being number one in many locations. The third-generation search engines might bring new pieces to the party, but they will need to be transformational - for most people, Google is good enough, and the switching costs are very high.
Ben highlights an astonishingly important misuse of statistics around survival rates in early births. As he says, the figure being quoted has no scientific backup. It suggests we should do further research to see if specialist units are that better. But currently, given the source of the data and the affiliation of the source, one must be very suspicious.
In related items, I saw a brief bit of the BBC News this morning on Autism. The presenterette casually chucked in reference to the MMR vaccine link. The mother said (twice) “My son did not have MMR, because he had reactions to other vaccines”. Even so, the presenterette didn’t leave it. This is shoddy reporting; tantamount to a tabloid. But that’s what the Beeb has become on-screen. I think their on-line stuff is more reasoned, or maybe I just read it in a better state of mind.
I hope that this sort of stuff happens very rarely, given the limited number of times we read similar items. I was expecting a laugh when I read the headline. Quite the opposite.
Man jailed for urinating on woman
I like the idea of reverse graffiti - I’m sure it has been done before, but the skulls are very pretty.
Good McK with Hamel and Bryan on how management needs to change to respond flexibly to the new global working structures.
Lovely shot of the rings (did you really think they were that complex?), and news of moonlets.
Hehehehehehe. Thanks wiffy.
Nice summary of the things you need to do to ensure your mac and PC work nicely together.
I hadn’t come across iTheater, either.
I love this story. Sounds like a fun bar.
It’s an extraordinary number if it is true - the Mafia rakes in $120bn, 7% of the Italian economy. I suppose the question needs to be how much of the UK economy is grey, black or crime based?
Nice link to an article on one of the Bear Stearns hedge funds. Nice meaning scary. Are they all like this, just not caught out?
Got an odd error “specified subscription does not exist” when trying to go offline with CRM.
The solution on eggheadcafe worked fine for me.
Very interesting to be forced to remember stuff you don’t really have to remember. I got 100%, thankfully. I do self-describe as a scientist, donchaknow.
I’m not a fan of estate-agentese, but I think even I will call my dwelling area “Highgate Slopes” if they rename the tube “Dick Whittington”.
