The insides of my head, now in convenient blog format.
Why I named my iPhone "Earth Book"
via youtube.com
Because I know you were wondering, gentle reader.
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Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread
via youtube.com
Bread help Philip Glass think!
If you find Glass's music as beautiful and annoying as I do, you'll be on the floor with one.
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Commuters at risk as network upgrades plagued by delays
The delay in upgrading the metropolitan rail control centre, Metrol, which runs on technology from the early 1980s, also poses a serious public safety risk. At present it can only visually monitor trains on 10 per cent of the network.
via theage.com.au
That's just one of the scary facts in this article in The Age. One-third of all rail network projects are running late, and that's not even counting the billion-dollar-plus calamity that is Myki.
Why is this? There's another interesting quote in the article, saying that the Department is staffed with "lawyers, accountants and PR advisers … a department better at diverting attention from the real problems than fixing them,'' said RMIT public transport advocate Paul Mees.
How I'd love to get in there and stir things up a bit.
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100 things restaurant staff should never do
Inexplicably split into two parts (which, ironically, is on my list of things that websites should never do).
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/one-hundred-things-restaurant-staffers-should-never-do-part-one/ http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/one-hundred-things-restaurant-staffers-should-never-do-part-2/ (Thanks @tomatom).Comments [0]
Fibre-optics don't help: Study
The study found that while there were economic benefits in having ADSL rather than dial-up, there was little extra value in faster forms such as fibre-optic cable.
via theage.com.au
This seems fairly short-sighted. When everyone was on dialup, there wouldn't have been much advantage to having a DSL connection because there were no applications designed to take advantage of the speed. Same thing now - so few people have very high-bandwidth connections (at least here in A/NZ), there are few applications pitched to those people. Once faster connections are more wide-spread, more applications will be designed for them, thereby increasing the economic benefits of having such a connection.
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Bing!
Alright guys, we've got to make an ad for Microsoft's new search engine.
Yes, I know the name sucks but that wasn't our call! Remember, that was the PR firm that came up with that one. I know it reminds you of that guy from "Groundhog Day", but we have to focus. Deadline approaches! We need to beat the G word somehow, make it appeal to the kids. That's how to get market share. Look at MSN! The kids, they love MSN! Facebook? What's that? No, the kids love MSN, always have. It's because it's edgy! Cool! What are the kids into these days? Is that rap-music still popular? Can we get Iced Tea to sing something? No? Too edgy? Alright, move on. Cats playing pianos? Oh be serious. You Toob? Umm... Vampires? Really? Like, what, Dracula? The kids think vampires are cool? Now there's a bandwagon we can jump on.Comments [0]
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