John, I'm only dancing

2009-11-03T16:30:00.000-08:00

Andrew Simms: We have only 100 months to avoid irreversible environmental disaster | Environment | The Guardian

2008-08-01T06:48:00.000-07:00

Andrew Simms: We have only 100 months to avoid irreversible environmental disaster | Environment | The Guardian

The Future of Software Development

2007-10-17T07:50:00.000-07:00

The Future of Software Development Found this by looking at 'popular' articles on del.icio.us.

Can an MRI See God? (News) Brendan Mackie

2007-10-16T08:17:00.000-07:00

Can an MRI See God? (News) Brendan Mackie

Ghosts in the machine | COSMOS magazine

2007-10-16T08:16:00.000-07:00

Ghosts in the machine | COSMOS magazine A quick summary of the ideas from his book wot Ihave, but haven't read...

The Learning Curve of Video Lighting | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

2007-10-16T02:10:00.000-07:00

The Learning Curve of Video Lighting | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English These videos are really excellent. I wonder if you can use shared bookmarking within a private setting, ie amongst work collegues?

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Extinction of the engineers

2007-10-15T03:17:00.000-07:00

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Extinction of the engineers So why are we creating a generation of consumers and other 'modern' countries aren't?

evhead: On-demand QA

2007-10-09T08:06:00.000-07:00

evhead: On-demand QA

seems to work better in firefox than in IE...

No pain, no gain

2007-10-09T07:16:00.000-07:00

We are often told that light activities such as walking and housework are enough to keep us fit. Sadly, it's just not true. Well, at least not according to The Guardian

evhead

2007-10-09T05:20:00.000-07:00

evhead noted that blogger posts seem to be v slow - I just noticed that today, but I am sure it wasn't like that before - perhaps s0mething has changed?

Reading Hooke's notebooks online

2007-10-09T03:37:00.000-07:00

Royal Society press release worth following up

BMI target in sight now!

2007-09-20T02:11:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I checked out my BMI and stuff and found out that my target weight is 12st 9lbs. That would be 5st less than I was in April, but only 13lbs from where I was on the scales today. So the end is in sight. Will be interesting to see if I can get that last 9lbs off at the same rate as I have managed so far...

XMOS gets $16m funding, welcomes Hauser to board

2007-09-13T02:40:00.000-07:00

XMOS gets $16m funding, welcomes Hauser to board they are developing Software Defined Semiconductors - which is something I alluded to when I gave my IEE talk many moons ago.

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | I'm backing Brown, Prescott declares

2006-09-28T01:37:00.000-07:00

Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports I'm backing Brown, Prescott declares

Back again

2006-02-24T05:28:00.000-08:00

Haven't been here for a while. Noticed that I seem to get spam comments. Inevitable I suppose...

Testing Firefox Livefeed

2004-12-14T06:46:00.000-08:00

How quick does my livefeed show up this article?

Using OneNote

2004-10-19T09:28:00.000-07:00

There is a post about how to link from one place in OneNote to another (as opposed to a URL).

Common Craft - Online Community Strategies: Podcasting Buzz

2004-10-14T05:46:00.000-07:00

Podcasting looks cool, but need to get an iPod first...

ic Southlondon - Architect George Lowe dies at 96

2004-10-13T01:27:00.000-07:00

Architect of Whitgift School Swimming pool - George Lowe dies at 96

History of Hypertext - what a visionary!

2004-10-12T06:48:00.000-07:00

Vannevar Bush outlined 'memex' - a hypertext-type concept in 1945. See History of Hypertext. What a visionary!

Must make a note of that...

2004-10-12T03:49:00.000-07:00

"Must make a note of that" suggests two useful links:
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/4780 and http://www.craphound.com/lifehacksetcon04.txt

The Internet And the Death Of 80/20

2004-10-07T01:21:00.000-07:00

The Internet And the Death Of 80/20 is, as usual, from this blog, a very interesting article. Basically says that the internet has turned the 80-20 rule upside down and companies like Amazon are able to take you to lesser-known artists with their recommendations, listmania's etc. I had imagined that the opposite was happening because of the way so many internet sites have the 'top 10 hourly' type of lists (not just Amazon). With this, I assumed that it would tend to reinforce and amplify sales of the most popular things - a bit like the way people gather round a crowd in the street, wondering what it is that has brought the crowd there.

If this is true, then a lot more people will make money from their creative output (but just less of it). But that will help make a more equitable world.

Apollo Alliance : Apollo Alliance Featured in Don't Think of an Elephant

2004-10-05T08:08:00.000-07:00

I like what I read in the newsletter I get from the Apollo Alliance - eg Don't Think of an Elephant and I need to read more of their stuff. Don't know if they have an equivalent here though?

Blog.org: E-commerce Archives

2004-10-05T02:19:00.000-07:00

This post at blog.org is about a tool that creates an RSS feed based on changing prices of watched amazon items. The combination of the internet, broadband and rss-type technologies is going to produce some very interesting results. Currently there are a lot of middlemen making money out of matching people and products, but they are slowly going to get squeezed as this sort of technology takes hold. Ultimately this has to be a good thing in that people will get exactly what they want at the price they want and its going to be harder for people to become instant millionaires at the expense of others.

Air travellers asked to pay voluntarily for CO2 emissions

2004-10-01T06:05:00.000-07:00

As Andii says in TheGreening: 09/01/2004 - 09/30/2004 it is no good asking people to volunteer to pay for CO2 emissions caused by their air-travel. a) they probably won't do it and b) what good would it do anyway?

A lot more work has to be done on finding schemes that require all of us to have a null effect on the environment. What is needed are schemes that tax 'pollution' - in the broadest sense of the word and similarly, credit back for pollution reduction.