Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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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…
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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…
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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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Ed Miliband and Lord Mandelson at The Wave
Central London was buzzing today as thousands of protesters came together at ‘the wave’ climate change demonstration. I weaved amongst the crowds of experienced rally veterans, families, charities and students…
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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
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Beautiful sculpted rooftop by BIG
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
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Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
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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”
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Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
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Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
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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
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Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.