Car vs Public Transport to Save MoneyCar vs Public Transport to Save Money
I’ve just been considering when it’s best to drive and when it’s best to take public transport to save money. My old car (1999 VW Passat) uses 12.8L/100km which at[...]
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Links June 2008Links June 2008
Paul Graham has recently published an essay titled How To Disagree [1]. One form that he didn’t mention is to claim that a disagreement is a matter of opinion. Describing[...]
Solving Rubik’s Cube and IO BandwidthSolving Rubik’s Cube and IO Bandwidth
Solving Rubiks Cube by treating disk as RAM: Gene Cooperman gave an interesting talk at Google about how he proved that Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 26 moves and[...]
TED – Defining WordsTED – Defining Words
I recently joined the community based around the TED conference [1]. The TED conference is expensive ($6000US) and has a long waiting list (the 2009 conference is sold out) so[...]
ISP Redundancy and VirtualisationISP Redundancy and Virtualisation
If you want a reliable network then you need to determine an appropriate level of redundancy. When servers were small and there was no well accepted virtual machine technology there[...]
Letter Frequency in Account NamesLetter Frequency in Account Names
It’s a common practice when hosting email or web space for large numbers of users to group the accounts by the first letter. This is due to performance problems on[...]
The Cost of Owning a CarThe Cost of Owning a Car
There has been a lot of talk recently about the cost of petrol, Colin Charles is one of the few people to consider the issue of wages in this discussion[...]
What is Appropriate Advertising?What is Appropriate Advertising?
Colin Charles writes about a woman who is selling advertising space on herself [1]. Like Colin I haven’t bought a t-shirt in about 9 years (apart from some Cafepress ones[...]
I’m Skeptical about Robotic NanotechI’m Skeptical about Robotic Nanotech
There has been a lot of fear-mongering about nanotech. The idea is that little robots will eat people (or maybe eat things that we depend on such as essential food[...]
Wyndham Resorts is a Persistent SpammerWyndham Resorts is a Persistent Spammer
Over the last week I have received five phone calls from Wyndham Resorts asking if I would like to be surveyed. Every time I tell them that I am not[...]