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Saturday May 17, 2008
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Tuesday Mar 04, 2008
Brompton pizza delivery man!

Pizza delivery by BromptonI knew there was a good reason for ordering a Brompton with a rack ... Just nipped down to our local Pizza Express for a Sunday afternoon treat for the family. Guess what, pizza boxes work better when kept flat. Ordered by phone, cycled down the road, rolled the bike in - no locks required - loaded up and home!

Pizzas were good too :-)


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Thursday Feb 21, 2008
Mice or Squirrels?

Loft damage by mice or squirrelsThe mystery of the recent spate of RCD trips and strange scratching sounds from the loft appears to be solved if not resolved. I unscrewed a panel and found a nest made out of roofing and loft materials. I also found a severely nibbled cable - whatever it is has sharp teeth.

The obvious cause is mice or squirrels, I'm not sure which. I toyed with the idea of disabling the RCD but decided that was a little reckless :-)

Having discounted electrocuting them and borrowing a passing cat to post down the eaves we're trying what is politely called rodenticide. If anyone has any other tips I'd welcome them.

More pictures here:


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Tuesday Jan 22, 2008
The Moral Instinct - fascinating Steven Pinker article

Alec MuffettI'm indebted to Alec Muffett as a commment on his "How Ethical Are You ?" blog entry lead me to a fascinating article in the New York Times entitled "The Moral Instinct".

Steven Pinker examines the basis of our moral instincts at some length and with great insight. Well worth a read.

Talking of ethics with Alec I briefly mentioned Lost in the Cosmos which, while being a parody of self-help books, asks searching questions. I read it many years ago now but am often reminded of it when pondering moral issues.

One of the ideas presented by Steven Pinker is that of "Reasoning" versus "Rationalizing" - the former leads us to a conclusion, the latter starts at the conclusion and works the other way. He also writes about the moral equivalent of optical illusions - questions that subvert our apparently rational moral senses.

Essential reading.


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Wednesday Jan 02, 2008
Gapminder World - beta

Gapminder World thumbnail The excellent TED talks by Hans Rosling I mentioned previously had some dynamic and fascinating graphing of data related to world poverty and development. There's now a beta version of the tool on-line here:

As a reminder, the original TED talks are here:


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Wednesday Nov 07, 2007
Some other problem solving methodologies

Kepner Tregoe logoAs much as an aide-memoir for me as anyone else ... as a licensed Kepner Tregoe Program(me) Leader I'm interested in what other problem solving methodologies there are out there. The classic open question being "what else?".

So far I've found two:

This doesn't include more quality orientated concepts like Six Sigma and the 'Five Whys'. All fascinating stuff.

The footnote to this is the controversial Wikipedia Kepner Tregoe article which I really ought to contribute to at some point.


Posted at 05:38PM Nov 07, 2007 by Peter Harvey in Management  |   |  del.icio.us technorati digg

Wednesday Oct 17, 2007
Random thoughts on Alec Muffett's "IT Futurology and the Terabyte iPod"

Alec MuffettHaving watched Alec Muffett's talk on "IT Futurology and the Terabyte iPod" I had some random thoughts wandering about my mind awaiting some annealing process. Until that occurs, here they are in raw form ...

BBC Radio 4's "The Material World" had a feature which implied massive and permanent data:

I was also struck by the iPod 'cloud' idea and how important it would be to have established standards to access the cloud. Also, would it be just one cloud? Bittorrent? Or GEROS? Or Web 3.0?

Currently much of my non-home directory objects are scattered about the Internet. I have blog entries in blogs.sun.com, photos in Photobox and Flickr, personal data in Facebook, etc etc. These all suffer to a greater or less extent to that 'what if' scenario of wanting your data back. If there were multiple clouds, could I migrate those objects from one cloud to another?

A long wished for dream-organiser for is me is something that allowed arbitrary links. Everything is an object and you can arbitrarily link them. That would be perfect with the cloud backend as my RSS blog object would simply list blog entry objects that themselves include other objects such as photos.

What use a home directory? Mostly preferences these days - could be another set of objects in the cloud of course.

Finally, two of the TED talks are about gapminder.org which writes software to mine the public databases for statistics related to world poverty, health and so on and then provide meaningful data. It set me wondering about the intersection (if any) between the iPod cloud or personal objects and large databases.

Check:

Can I resist mentioning the network is the computer? Apparently not :-)


Posted at 11:07PM Oct 17, 2007 by Peter Harvey in Internet  |   |  del.icio.us technorati digg

Wednesday Oct 03, 2007
Wanted: Sun Ray laptop modelled on the Intel Metro

Intel Metro concept laptopThe Intel Metro is old news now but it struck me today just how much I want a Sun Ray version of this.

Jim Grisanzio's recent blog on Sun Ray laptops in Japan shows that Sun Ray laptops do exist, check Accutech for an actual product.

Just think of the potential battery life (no disk, no fans), the simplicity of flipping the lid open to immediately resume access the same session you can access from any Sun Ray on the network - all wrapped up in a sleek, low-profile, lightweight piece of design elegance.

Please, please, please.


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