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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Passengers to start getting fingerprinted at Heathrow
In another life I was an information security tutor. Security is such a fascinating topic, both to teach and learn. I can’t get enough of it, and routinely end up taking part in security decisions at my company, just because … Continue reading
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Valleywag post of the day – the many faces of Ballmer
Dance, monkey boy, dance. Ahem. Steve Ballmer has got to be one of my favourite CEOs – and Valleywag has posted the “Top Ten Ballmer Goes Nuts” videos. My favourite is this one right here (a classic to be sure). … Continue reading
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Virgin America
As a frequent reader of BoingBoing I was sold on their glowing recommendation of Virgin America. I later discovered business relations existed, but it did sound pretty cool. So based on said recommendation I purchased tickets to fly to Seattle … Continue reading
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Bay Area Gossip
Valleywag has become one of my new guilty pleasures. While I can’t but help laugh at the hapless participants, I do feel twinges of sympathy for them as well. Whether it’s Jimmy Wales meeting and breaking up with his girlfriend … Continue reading
Steve Job’s cancer went unreported for 9 months
Why? Because he was busy trying new age garbage to try and treat it. Guess how that worked out for him. It turns out that doctors found the the tumor in October of 2003 during a routine scan. While a … Continue reading
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3D visualisations with Excel
This is not an Easter egg – these are filled in cells being dynamically updated within Excel. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vypETZbkU94]
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Beer beer beer beer beer!
Anyone who knows me knows I am a massive beer fan. 2 years ago I organised a trip around Belgium for my friends and myself. We ended up visiting several different monasteries around the country, and sampled some of the … Continue reading
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Fighting for consumer rights
I’m a big fan of The Consumerist (although sometimes the commenters are somewhat rabidly against the consumer – what on Earth are they doing at a site called The Consumerist?), but seeing as they didn’t post my great experience with … Continue reading
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Sand won’t save you this time.
No, it certainly won’t. Holy crap that is some scary stuff. Ever felt like burning a bucket of sand? Just get yourself some chlorine trifluoride. Asbestos contaminating your house? This will burn it right up. There’s a report from the … Continue reading
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Wikipedia is a productivity killer
Start on a page like the Dunning-Kruger effect, and end up on something fascinating like like fact that 0.9 recurring is equal to 1. The notations “0.999…” and “1” represent the same number. The equality has long been accepted by … Continue reading
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