Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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Grand Designs
Absolutely inspirational… http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/grand-designs/episode-guides/sussex-the-woodman-s-cottage-08-06-11_p_1.html
The End of Lehman Brothers?
Hmmm… The end of Lehman?
Joe Bageant
Try stomaching this article from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7600000/7600592.stm Find your answers to questions about the man here http://www.energygrid.com/society/ap-bageant.html “Ya know, I don’t think you Brits understand that when the last…
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling is fast becoming one of my favourite actors. The folks over at Lovefilm keep putting his work through my letterbox, and neither myself or Lucy have been disappointed…
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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.