Archive for the 'Snippets' Category

We’ll Fill This Space, but First a Nap

16/11/2008

Article about the importance of sleep in decision making, especially creative decision making.

Extract from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: Is there such a thing as pure genius?

16/11/2008

Even this small excerpt is enough to get you thinking on what is, essentially, the long-standing argument of nature vs nurture, in this case, specifically aimed at achievement and, as has really been said before, finds it’s a case of both, but that, contrary to most people’s opinions, genius isn’t all about natural ability.

Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season

8/11/2008

Is it just me that’s a little excited about a new version of Windows? Looks to have some more nifty features and, most importantly, tackles performance.
I’ve been running Vista quite happily for some time after switching back from OS X, so my suspicion with the people that have been unhappy with it is that [...]

Microsoft ‘interested’ in open source browser: Ballmer

7/11/2008

I’ve seen a few stories about this lately but seriously people if you think for a second Ballmer saying something is ‘interesting’ means anything, especially that MS will drop the IE rendering engine, forget it, no way in hell MS will adopt Webkit.
Don’t forget parts of it are used in Office as well as a [...]

Code-cracking and computers - Bletchley Park

7/11/2008

A short piece about the work done on building Colossus, the computer that broke Engima codes in WWII and the influence the people who made it had on computer history.
Another area of technology the UK led and helped develop.

E-mail error ends up on road sign

1/11/2008

‘When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”. ‘

In a New Age of Impatience, Cutting PC Start Time

26/10/2008

I’m getting fed-up of the ever-increasing start times too. Computers are getting quicker, they should be loading faster, not slower. If a PDA or phone can be up and running in seconds, why does a desktop or laptop take several minutes? Yes, I realise those devices have set hardware and custom software, [...]

Daring $1m mid-day heist in Milan

26/10/2008

This is so simple as to make it seem fictional but the mention of the heist involving tunnelling into a jewellers (in Feb this year) sounds more like something out of Ocean’s Eleven.

Prints for Sale

18/10/2008

A friend of mine does some excellent art work and now has some prints for sale via her blog.

Exotic spiders crawl into the UK

14/10/2008

I should mention that, like many people, I hate spiders.