September 2009
2 posts
Fake anti-virus attack on Twitter →
A couple of hours ago Jack Schofield, a technology journalist at the Guardian newspaper, warned Twitter users about a fake anti-virus attack that is being distributed via the micro-blogging…
Shrinking Financial Industry Market Capitalization... →
“How the Giants of Finance Shrunk, Then Grew, Under the Financial Crisis” [nytimes.com] displays the market capitalization of 29 of the biggest financial firms on September 11, 2009. The…
May 2009
1 post
March 2009
4 posts
February 2009
4 posts
January 2009
4 posts
Rough map of the itinerary for Cuba.
55 Websites To Download Free Sound Effects →
December 2008
5 posts
Politik Snippet - O2 - 161208
For some reason this reminds me of Tarkovsky and George Orwell - had a lovely time though :)
How OUseful.Info Operates… →
After receiving an honorable mention (and a bottle of bubbly:-) at the IWR Info Professional of the Year Awards, I’ve picked up a few new subscribers from the Info Pro community, so here’s a quick…
tie a brick to the pigeon
Curious article in Private Eye this week about the enormous hash that centralised IT procurement (and the mind-set that comes from it) has made of the Connecting for Health strategy in the NHS. That’s dry as hell obviously, and I can’t link to it because they haven’t put it online, but it threw up this gorgeous parable from an un-named judge of the BT e-health Insider Awards...
November 2008
12 posts
“It’s not just what you’re given - it’s what you do with what you’ve got.”
via Si Kahn and Dick Gaughan
The Noise That Shook my Neighbours Walls (part 2)
J&MC: Snakedriver
When Beckett met Xtranormal
xtranormal say that if you can type you can make movies - and it’s just about that easy (not that you’re *really* making movies - and I’m no Beckett, but you get the drift).
via the Ed Techie
When Instructional Technologists Attack.
Not pretty - not at all. What were they thinking. (you have to watch it to understand - sorry).
ps. I’m assuming you’re not a man.
Mash the Vote: Live TwitterVoteReport Google Map
October 2008
15 posts
Editable, interactive “Wiki-charts” - looks like a good time to buy a Google share.
The Noise That Shook my Neighbours Walls: (part 1 in a series)
(bit embarassed that I still know all the words to this :)
roughly 10 times the value of the entire world’s output
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A £516 trillion derivatives ‘time-bomb’ - The Independent
Kevin Nguyen explains the country’s economic woes to his younger sister, using...
– The Financial Crisis, as Explained to My Fourteen-Year-Old Sister
Sad Guys on Trading Floors →
does what it says on the tin…
September 2008
31 posts
Cramster: A Study Community for Homework Help in... →
Remote Impact - Virtual Shadow Boxing
via distancelab (Scottish Education Project)