Where are they now - the Boos and Kozmos? Good question.
Archive for May, 2008
I love the idea that 95% of people “spending time” on a farm are less tired - they clearly weren’t mucking in. Wiffy suggests we should go walking on the weekend because of this. She’s probably right.
Shion looks like a nice way of X10ing your home. I’ll never get round to it though.
OpenFlashChart is a nice open source charting application - a little like the Google REST version. I love the rationale for doing it - don’t mess with your customers.
The three journeys are very similar to the Think:Act framework I use, but more effective thanks to the story telling behind it.
Interesting slant on the male / female brains debate: female reporting of memories has more speech content. I have certainly noticed that I try to summarise what happened (often in too few words) and that Wiffy will replay situations in a shorthand but verbatim manner.
This is very cool next generation video conferencing, though it feels on a bit of digging like it is essentially a vast back projection kit.
Suitable retro look and feel, tells you how long you have to wait, clearly comprehended. It would be like driving on the left - it would never happen.
Is this the best PC / Mac argument to date;-) ?
Sadly it is a Conan O’Brien gag rather than a real Bushism:
Today, at the White House, President Bush signed a proclamation
declaring this Malaria Awareness Week. There was an awkward moment
when, during the ceremony, Bush said, “This is a great day for all
Malarians.”
Interesting question: why do we accept faxed (and therefore easily fakable) signatures? Answer: because it is still hard to do any real damage / commit real fraud using them.
While the conclusions are all correct (no link between autism and MMR in this study), the way of presenting it isn’t. How do we explain why issues like confounding are important, and why you can’t just take a papers figures and fiddle with them - you need to go back to the source.
Friendfeed seems to be a reasonable attempt at pulling together a gazillion social networking sites in one place. Typically, I can’t be bothered to use it…
SuperDuper is a nice looking backup tool for the Mac. I’m not sure I trust Time Machine, and it runs too often for me, as I don’t use the Mac for day-to-day work.
Lots of nice tips / check list to help you get through to your audience.
This is probably fake science. But even so: it appears that one should shake a Martini, rather than stirring it. I have certainly experienced the “colder than ice” effect - I nearly had my hand stuck to the shaker the first time I tried to make one for Wiffy.
Too early to be at T5, but the lounge is nice and it was a very easy bag drop and security.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss very good tonight.
[Update - reviews concur. Funny how the album didn't work for me first time round, but hearing it done live and with sporadic commentary made an enormous difference. The band was astonishing - especially the drummer. On the night, I particularly liked Nothing (lyrics) "a profound piece of pain". The Zep covers (Black Dog, Battle of Evermore, When the Levee breaks) were excellent and worked well as bluegrassy numbers. There are some other people's pictures and videos up.]
In a typical slightly undocumented Microsoft move, you need to open up TCP port 4125 as well as port 3389 (which is the standard RDP port) to allow a remote user to log in through the SBS Remote Web Workplace. So why not just say so somewhere?
Jamie Whyte on why government needs at least a 20% return on spending. It all hinges on how you measure the cost implications of collecting tax, but here is my summary:
- For tragedy of the commons services, government should run them (otherwise I’d stuff my rubbish in your privately-collected bin).
- For things like running a school, the government has considerable overhead (for example DCSF and others). Why shouldn’t a privately run school be able to do better with the money?
I think various voucher schemes have tried to address this issue, but they have failed - now to understand why.
Lean is a manufacturing process methodology I should learn.
