Links December 2012Links December 2012
Steven Johnson gave an interesting TED talk about where good ideas come from [1]. He starts by attributing coffee replacing alcohol as a standard drink for some good ideas and[...]
Returning the Aldi TabletReturning the Aldi Tablet
I have decided to return the 7″ Android tablet I bought from Aldi last week [1]. I still think that the tablet isn’t all bad, but the main problem I[...]
IngressIngress
Today Google sent me an invite for Ingress – their latest augmented reality game [1]. The fact that they sent me the invitation while the Google Play store page for[...]
Cheap Android Tablet from AldiCheap Android Tablet from Aldi
I’ve just bought a 7″ Onix tablet from Aldi. It runs Android 4.0.4, has a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, 512M of RAM, 16G of flash storage, and a 800*480 display.[...]
Recruiting at a LUG MeetingRecruiting at a LUG Meeting
I’m at the main meeting of Linux Users of Victoria (my local LUG). A couple of recruiting agents from Interpro [1] are here and have been working the crowd, one[...]
Links November 2012Links November 2012
Julian Treasure gave an informative TED talk about The 4 Ways Sound Affects US [1]. Among other things he claims that open plan offices reduce productivity by 66%! He suggests[...]
Geeky JeansGeeky Jeans
It’s likely that most people make things like comfort, style, and price the main criteria when purchasing clothes. But there are other things that can be more important such as[...]
Rape Apology and LCA 2011Rape Apology and LCA 2011
After a lecture at LCA 2011 included some inappropriate slides there was a long discussion on several mailing lists about the issues related to this. In February 2011 I wrote[...]
Links October 2012Links October 2012
The F Word has an informative post about men commenting on Feminist blogs [1]. Most of it applies to any situation where a member of a powerful group comments on[...]
Google mod_pagespeedGoogle mod_pagespeed
I’ve just downloaded and installed the Debian AMD64 package of the Google Apache Pagespeed module [1]. To see if it worked I used the Google PageSpeed insights tool which gave[...]