Help A Reporter OutHelp A Reporter Out
I recently discovered the Help A Reporter Out [1] service. Subscribers receive three messages every business day each of which contains about 40 queries from journalists. People who subscribe can[...]
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New Lamps for Old – Light Changing and BurglaryNew Lamps for Old – Light Changing and Burglary
A few weeks ago I had a guy from “enviro saver” visit my home to replace incandescent globes with CFLs. Â The original plan was to deliver a water-saver shower head[...]
Bad Math at TEDBad Math at TED
TED.com is a site that is known for very high quality content. Unfortunately on occasion they do get things wrong. Rob Hopkins in his talk at TED Global 2009 claimed[...]
How to Setup BittorrentHow to Setup Bittorrent
The first couple of times I tried to setup Bittorrent I had a lot of trouble. Here is a basic summary of what you need to do: btmakemetafile.bittorrent test.iso http://server.example.com:8000/announce[...]
Rationing of Health CareRationing of Health Care
Peter Singer wrote an interesting article for the New York Times which makes a good case for rationing health care on the basis of a ratio of the amount of[...]
DRM and Rogue EmployeesDRM and Rogue Employees
ZDNet has an interesting article about Amazon unselling books to Kindle owners [1]. Apparently the books Animal Farm and 1984 were added to the Kindle list by unauthorised people (Engaget[...]
I’m Not a FanI’m Not a Fan
Fandom is something that has never made sense to me. If a sport such as football interested me then I would play it. Being good at something is not a[...]
Respecting the AudienceRespecting the Audience
Currently there is an ongoing debate about a joke that was made during a lecture about free software. I have previously written about why I think it’s inappropriate with regard[...]
Links July 2009Links July 2009
Katherine Fulton gave a TED talk about the future of philanthropy [1]. She started out well with an overview of some of the technical methods, but I felt that the[...]
Hating MicrosoftHating Microsoft
In mailing list discussions I’ve seen Windows users get rather unhappy when people talk about “Hating Microsoft“, this often includes claims that it’s supposedly “unprofessional” to hate one vendor. Some[...]