Thoughts and wanderings around the internet, e-government and geekdom.
Summary: Panasonic KX-T7433 handsets, not sure which switch. No automatic summer time settings, so you have to do this to change the time. It may have to be done on the Admin handset - for us its the one that Night mode diverts to:
More detailed instructions here.
Sounds like a little bit of work, but well worth it to stop greens rotting in the fridge. I found that turning the fridge temperature down just a tad increased longevity substantially.
There is some more detail on what Kurzweil chooses to do to keep healthy. Amazing, when you think about it - just look at the pills for a start!
A lifesaver if you get the white screen of death in WordPress, because you forgot to disable plugins before updating.
My mobile shows your (pocket pc) mobile screen on your mobile and a pile of other useful things.
Mark sends a neat idea through: you can get rechargeable batteries with an inbuilt USB plug. Not ideal for home, where I can easily be charging six batteries at a time, but a nice idea for the office.
Nice mash up of things that have moved around London. Neat.
Funny to see one of our clients the Junk Charts. Not sure the revamped version makes enough of the data in the two charts shown - there’s different percentage items on the left hand side and the right.
Infinity pool? No, just attach a bungee cord! Love it.
Owen sends over a link to the BigDog robot - a pack mule for the US Army. Quite incredible robotics to keep it standing despite being kicked over, or on ice. If this is public, just think what is going on behind closed doors…
I like the idea of Just Enough Anxiety. We have a little too much, I fear.
Interesting distributed “war” against Scientology and specific comments on how it works: just imagine if people were building these sort of networks for terrorism (and let’s assume they are)?
Terrible about the floods and deaths, but this quote made me laugh (and restored my faith in my ignorant stereotypes).
“There are a lot of stupid people. When that sign says ‘Road closed, high water’, that’s what it means.”
Joel explaining how difficult it is to set and keep standards in play: Postel’s robustness principle is spot on: “Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.” How does this apply to dish washers, which I find have the same connector everywhere in the UK? Thought: there is a probably a required British or ISO standard for them.
Interesting discussion of banks booking income that hasn’t yet flowed in the door (and is unlikely ever to). The assumption of low-cost financing and rising house prices looks to be a very dangerous one. I’m sure Enron used to do something similar in terms of its financing vehicles.
One of my favourite learnings in O-level physics was why the sky is blue if the sun is white. The same explanation holds for a reflection nebula in Orion. Only the picture shows it how it was 1600 years ago.
Interesting thought: markets are tightly correlated (due to the complexity of product relationships and the tight coupling due to the mechanised processes) meaning that the hedges people are taking out to protect themselves from the worst may well go wrong.
Just an extraordinary story, especially the piece where the toilet seat had to go with her to hospital. I only read the story because it was in Wichita, and Caroline has been there.
