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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
I previously wrote about the appropriate references to porn in lectures about Computer Science [1]. It seemed that by providing a short list of all the appropriate ways that porn[...]