unfocused & unshaven

Earth from Above

2008-10-07T08:56:51Z

Incredible set of photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, courtesy of The Boston Globe/Boston.com. Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the...

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A sense of achievement

2008-09-20T18:09:52Z

I made myself my usual Saturday morning double espresso today, got my pencil and prepared to get stuck into David Allen's Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity , making notes as I went. I got waylaid on my way to the kitche...

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Reading list

2008-08-26T18:56:27Z

Here's a bunch of books I have bought in the last few weeks: Bill Drummond -- The 17 Murray Bookchin -- Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm Tim Etchells -- The Broken World Dan & Chip Heath -- Made to Stick: Why Som...

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Music can stop warmongers and torturers after all

2008-07-09T14:05:41Z

...at least if the royalties they charge for use of their material are high enough to make torture uneconomic.

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Notes on Cider

2008-06-18T14:21:11Z

Lucy and I had a holiday in the Cornwall and Devon at the end of last month and beginning of this one (photos). In the Truro Sainsbury's on the way down I opted to eschew the usual selection of bitter for what seemed like a good range of ciders. T...

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Denied an opportunity to moan

2008-06-18T11:59:53Z

So, I've been with with Vodafone for nine and a half years, and increasingly pissed off with how the deals they advertise to new customers are so much better than those available to loyal customers. The occasion of leaving them, then, offers an op...

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Navigating the Micro Media Maze

2008-05-23T14:55:32Z

Here are my rough notes from this interesting Chinwag Live event on Tuesday. Steve BowbrickThis is an industry driven by hyperbole, and change is always massive, and disruptive. At least micromedia sounds small! Gerd LeonhardDeal mostly with t...

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Innovation not quite on the edge

2008-05-22T01:29:08Z

Generally I felt Tuesday's Innovation Edge event played it a bit safe, but here are my notes of what I found to be the highlights. For once the 'star speakers' were truly stars. Tim Berners-Lee interviewed by Jonathan FreedlandIf you find these ...

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So, this means exactly the opposite of what it says

2008-05-21T08:40:46Z

When I was about 10 I had a teacher who liked to point out that when people said "a certain number of...", what they actually meant was "an uncertain number...". If they knew what the number was, they'd have given it, but they cover up their ignor...

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Matt Mason, The Pirate's Dilemma

2008-05-10T00:01:05Z

Yesterday Matt Mason spoke at the ippr about his book, The Pirate's Dilemma: How Hackers, Punk Capitalists, Graffiti Millionaires and Other Youth Movements Are Remixing Our Culture and Changing Our World. I liked him as a speaker: he did not come...

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