May 2007
18 posts
“It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell!”
– … Steve Jobs on the fact that Apple makes one of the most popular Windows apps around (iTunes)
Steve Jobs live from D 2007 - Engadget
Birth and Death
- A right royal statistical anomaly.
A friend of mine once said:
“Yes, I survived yet another birthday.”
Did you know that while approximately 1 in 365.26 people die on their birthday, almost exactly 1 in 1 people are born on their birthday?
Studies into this statistical anomaly inevitably focus on the very few people who were not born on their birthday, such as the Queen....
Do *NOT* click on this if you are at all squeamish →
… in fact, don’t even read the rest of this description.
The link is to a full medical description, with totally graphic medical images, of the case of a man who’s arm was severed, then reattached. Then, because it became infected (maybe something to do with the thing falling down a drain while it was off on its own), they had to take it off again and put it on another,...
Worst President Ever - source →
Worst president ever
TBF MOM: Carter's got a lot of nerve criticizing Bush. He was the worst president.
TBF: No, I think that was Harding.
TBF MOM: Look up "worst U.S. president" and the first thing you'll see is a picture of Carter.
TBF: (One Google image search later) Bush, Bush, comic-book-guy from the Simpsons, Bush, Bush, demonic mastodon, then Carter.
TBF MOM: I didn't mean that literally.
Passion and computer coding
I know what you’re thinking. Or at least, I know what lots of people think: What could possibly be more boring than writing instructions for a computer? How could anyone actually be passionate about that!
I understand those feelings. No, truely, I do. I feel much the same way about lots of things. Accountancy, for example, or the actual precice details of computer hardware, or trashy...
“Data in the hands of a few makes for order; but data in the hands of many makes...”
– Tara Hunt, of citizen agency, in a presentation called “government 2.0” (slide 24)
Burning water →
… just one of the things you find when you are an untrained scientist refining the details of your cure for cancer…
Bible spared indecent classification →
They’ve got a good point there, really.
Computer Science - why bother? →
Please excuse the profanity in the small essay linked above - but I do sometimes get the same question, and I do agree with what Mr. Shipley says. For the record: Thank You Mum and Dad for sending me to Uni! It really was worthwhile!
Nothing happening...
My apologies for the lack of content over the last week or so. Contrary to what you might have thought based on my blogging history, It isn’t that I have lost interest - it’s just that nothing noteworthy has actually happened.
Woman Survives Internal Decapitation - News Story... →
Public speaking for geeks: "How To Not Throw Up" →
April 2007
19 posts
'Exercise pill' →
Please, please please let it be so! ;-)
“A crank is defined as a man who cannot be turned.”
– Nature, 8 Nov 1906 (via denialism blog : Unified theory of the crank)
I hate weddings where the groom behaves like an...
I hate the concept of a ‘bucks night’ where the groom sees fit to have a ‘last fling’. I mean, c’mon - do you love this woman you are marrying tomorrow or not?
Also, why would you have to get drunk? Seriously, what, you need ‘Dutch courage” to do it? It’s that unpleasant?
So perhaps you can understand now how sometimes, in some ways, I like how...