Monbiot on nuclear double standards
Good on Monbiot to come out fighting. As I said earlier, it seems tricky to have a rational debate about nuclear.
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Publishers are in the wrong business
Killer quote from a fascinating article about the growing potential in self-publishing from an authour who turned down a $500k advance. I believe they’ve gotten their business model mixed-up. They should be connecting readers with the written word. Instead, they’re … Continue reading
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A bad time for nuclear
Modern engineering (including but not limited to nuclear) came through the Japan earthquake and tsunami pretty well. Loss of life due to infrastructure collapse was surprisingly low. I don’t mean to downplay the loss of life, home and security or … Continue reading
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Smartphones and the over 55s
In the middle of some excellent chart unjunking comes some slightly surprising data: iPhones have a substantially higher market share than any competitor in the over 55s. The same is true for Android in the under 25s. Not earth shattering, … Continue reading
Digital pricing and the NYT
I find myself wondering what the NYT is playing at in its new pricing model (kudos for the Times reporting on it): it is cheaper to have hard copy delivered direct to a recycling plant and use your linked online … Continue reading
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Amazon / Lendle: a slightly better way of dealing with your ecosystem
Amazon revokes Lendle’s API access is a regularly updating summary of an Amazon spat with one of its “who’d have thought of that” ecosystem companies. Amazon allows you to lend Kindle books to other Kindle owners for 14 days. During … Continue reading
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Please link to primary sources
Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? Definitely right that they should where possible. At one stage, I thought that the user comments sections might help keep journalists at the top of their game, but seeing the varied signal to … Continue reading
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Same height again
So I came out of our apartment ,dropped down to street level, met a friend randomly and walked up steps uphill to reach pretty well the same height as my place. Photo is looking back from the top of the … Continue reading
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Google is occasionally fallible / bridges
Bridges is a beautiful collection of places where Google’s automated bridge scripts don’t quite work with the landscape. Rather splendid if they did exist in that form, no?
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CrashPlan as QPKG on QNap
A kind soul has packaged up CrashPlan as a QPKG making life a little easier than the slightly complicated install we previously needed. It should work for ARM with a bit of fiddling too. The JRE it requires isn’t linked … Continue reading
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