Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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Privacy rights and the standard of legal protection of these rights in the digital domain
This document was written as my submission for the computer science writing course I took in my third year of study at the University of York. It attempts to summarise…
Morning Musings
I thought getting a kitten would keep me company. I already have a cat who is still only young but old enough to want to sleep all day. The idea…
Laptop Theft
If you’re the guy who stole my laptop and contents of my laptop bag last night (18/5/10) please could I have my Moleskin notebook back? It has only sentimental value…
Stick With What You Got
If like me you find yourself often frustrated and even drawn in by the frenzy of consumerism around you perhaps it would pay to let off a little steam and…
Tax breaks for buy-to-let. Give me a break.
I’m a serial tenant. There’s nothing wrong with renting. On the whole it’s a worry-free life. If the washing machine breaks, I call my landlords and they are good people…
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.