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[...]
Creating WordPress PackagesCreating WordPress Packages
deb http://www.coker.com.au wheezy wordpress I maintain Debian packages of a number of WordPress themes and plugins for my personal use which I am not planning to upload to Debian due[...]
Cheap Bulk StorageCheap Bulk Storage
The Problem Some of my clients need systems that store reasonable amounts of data. This is enough data that we can expect some data corruption on disk such that traditional[...]
Asperger Syndrome – Disability vs “Over Pathologising”Asperger Syndrome – Disability vs “Over Pathologising”
Is Asperger Syndrome a Disability? Some people tell me that I’m disabled. Usually it’s an unstated implication such as referring to Asperger Syndrome as a disability with the assumption that[...]
Links September 2012Links September 2012
Scott Adams has an interesting idea for political debates he calls “Fact Bubbler” [1]. It sounds implausible the first time you read it, but then so did Wikipedia. Arstechnica has[...]
Server Use Per PersonServer Use Per Person
I’ve just read Diego’s response to an ill-informed NYT article about data-center power efficiency [1]. This makes me wonder, how much server use does each person have? Google Almost everyone[...]