Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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Retail banking can and should be better
The Vickers’ report has been praised for highlighting the importance of competition between high street banks. The report suggests it should be easier to switch accounts, via a system which…
Garden State OST
I’m sure any music snob will remind me, soundtracks aren’t proper albums. Apparently they succeed on false merits: would you still love the music so much without the memory of…
Totem
A huge tortoise shell looms below the sparkling figure gently spinning in a slow descent into the packed Royal Albert Hall. The tortoise shell is ripped from the skeletal dome…
Downloading Music: Hit & Miss
As a music lover I consume a lot of music. I’m a passionate collector and love the physical formats – CDs, vinyl, tapes. I first ventured into the murky world…
“It was Enoch Powell meets Alan Partridge”
One week on from the riots and vandalism which turned London on its head, and figures from across the political spectrum are scrambling to offer their explanations for the disruptions. …
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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.