Archive for the 'General' Category

Repetition Drives Home a Viewpoint

22/05/2007

The headline to the article says it all: People Often Think An Opinion Heard Repeatedly From The Same Person Is Actually A Popular Opinion (via Kottke).
…repeated exposure to one person’s viewpoint can have almost as much influence as exposure to shared opinions from multiple people. This finding shows that hearing an opinion multiple [...]

Eating Habits

12/05/2007

I was looking at a lump of blue cheese the other day and a thought occurred to me: who the hell decided to stick it in their gob?
Henri: Ah no, Gaston, take a look at this (he picks up a small lump of moldy, white goo from a shelf), all the cheese has gone moldy, [...]

Religious Blinkers

10/05/2007

I have to say that I thought Michael’s recent post was pretty brave, knowing what a fuss anyone expressing an opinion about religion usually generates, and here I am with my own post about it. Let me start by saying that I am not anti-religious, and I would certainly not wish to force or [...]

To-Do Lists

19/04/2007

I am a list maker, for all sort of things, but most obviously for tasks I need to accomplish. For a long time I have been looking for a simple application that has flexibility but is quick and easy to add tasks to, group them by ‘project’ and run with the minimum of resources [...]

Energy Generation

12/03/2007

I’ve written about energy several times before, but I seem to be reading more and more about it in the media and on various websites. At Christmas we got an electricity monitor, you plug it into your mains, program in how much you’re charged per unit and it calculates what your current spend is [...]

Pressure of Posting

6/03/2007

When I first started my blog I had two sections, one for the blog and one called articles, it was maintained until the most recent update of TDP. The idea was that the blog section would be for any old article, while the articles section was for short stories and in-depth write-ups, longer articles [...]

Bald-headed Women

20/02/2007

I find the recent outcry that Britney shaving her hair off obviously signals she’s gone nuts and needs to sit down and talk to someone a little odd, but I was reading an article from the BBC and when you think about it women with shaved heads do seem to get some sort of stigma [...]

Disabled Parking

18/02/2007

I can’t say I disagree with local councils cutting down on ‘blue badge offenders,’ that is, people who are not disabled, but display a disabled badge. I’m sure the practice of using a friend or relative’s badge is fairly common (although I was shocked to find out people actually steal them, and that they’re [...]

On the Ball

22/01/2007

I’ve mentioned before that I play football every other week. A group of guys, most of whom I’d never met before, from different walks of like, get together and have a runabout. It’s good fun, a bit of exercise and we all get to pretend we’re our favourite footy stars, plus it gives [...]

What’s with New Year’s Eve?

31/12/2006

I was talking to one of my friends about this recently, what has become of New Year’s Eve? In the run up to the Christmas period and the week or so after the return to work you constantly face the question of what you did on New Year’s Eve. It’s become this big [...]