Correlation != Causation
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous | No Comments »Or does it? Thanks lee.
Random Wikipedia link of the day – the dancing epidemic of 1518
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous | No Comments »You can't make this stuff up. The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, ...
Daily Show takes on sham interviews
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in Miscellaneous | No Comments »Fox News interview by Sean Hannity or infomercial?
Skype will never succeed as a replacement for your home phone…
Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Consumer issues | 1 Comment »...so long as they're happy to just "block" people's accounts and prevent them from using the service. Last night I tried calling my wife and I kept getting "call failed". So I tried from my computer, thinking my Skype phone ...
Beer pilgrimage – advice for lovers of Westvleteren 12 from Abdij St Sixtus
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Personal, Travel | No Comments »One of my main objectives for Belgium was to pick up a case or two of the Westvleteren 12, widely considered the best beer in the world. It is brewed by monks in Westvleteren and is notoriously difficult to get ...
How not to run customer support
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Consumer issues, Rants | No Comments »I just got back from vacation last week. It was a whirlwind tour of Norway, Denmark, Belgium and the UK. I had a great time, sampling a lot of beer and seeing a lot of cool places. At the start of ...
