Dr Suelette Dreyfus LCA KeynoteDr Suelette Dreyfus LCA Keynote
Dr Suelette Dreyfus gave an interesting LCA keynote speech on Monday (it’s online now for people who aren’t attending LCA [1]). One of the interesting points she made was regarding[...]
Length of Conference QuestionsLength of Conference Questions
After LCA last year I wrote about “speaking stacks” and conference questions [1]. In that post I did some rough calculations on the amount of conference time taken by questions[...]
Sound Device Order with ALSASound Device Order with ALSA
One problem I have had with my new Dell PowerEdge server/workstation [1] is that sound doesn’t work correctly. When I initially installed it things were OK but after installing a[...]
Political Advocacy in ClubsPolitical Advocacy in Clubs
One topic that often gets discussed when it’s near election time is whether clubs and societies should be “political”. Some organisations are limited in what they can do, for example[...]
The Nexus 5The Nexus 5
The Nexus 5 is the latest Android phone to be endorsed by Google (and manufactured by LG). It’s getting good reviews and the price is good for the specs. I[...]
Links December 2013Links December 2013
Andres Lozano gave an interesting TED talk about the use of electrodes inside the brain (deep brain stimulation) to treat Alzheimers disease, Parkinson’s disease, and depression [1]. Daniel Pocock wrote[...]
Dell PowerEdge T110Dell PowerEdge T110
In June 2008 I received a Dell PowerEdge T105 server to run in my home for a client [1]. That system has run well for over 5 years for the[...]
A Basic Income for AustraliaA Basic Income for Australia
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the concept of a Basic Income (Wikipedia), largely due to the efforts to change the Swiss constitution to provide a Basic[...]
A Better UniversityA Better University
I previously wrote about the financial value of a university degree [1], my general conclusion is that the value is decreasing for most fields of employment that don’t have a[...]
Preferring Not ToPreferring Not To
I’ve just read Bartleby the Scrivener which is a short story about a scrivener who refused to work saying “I’d prefer not to”. It reminded me of some situations in[...]