Fixed Idiots
Commentary, Humour, the odd Plea for Attention
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Falling for Stunts
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I'm surprised by how much attention Felix Baumgartner's extreme skydive has gotten. I checked Twitter today and found that it was d...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Better Living Through Speech Recognition
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A new feature on Android -based phones (as of version 4.1) is a "personal assistant" app called "Google Now" (see the vi...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Unseen At Any Speed
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A weird thing happened on the highway today. I had just pulled onto the highway, when I noticed there was a police car at the side of the r...
Monday, October 8, 2012
It's A Sin
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I'm not a big animal rights guy. I'm not a vegetarian; I've never been in any animal-related organisation. But as a compassion...
Friday, October 5, 2012
Speed Reading
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photo by Jose A. Herran used by creative commons licence At right is a picture from the Nürburgring north course. It's an old ra...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
You Don't Want To Get Involved In High-Tech Gang Wars
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Today I saw this on a local building: In most places, the File Transfer Protocol is a forgotten part of Internet history, but here i...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
If You Can Find A Better Ad, Film It
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If I ever find myself CEO of a company, I'm going to try to remember the following: don't appear in my company's TV commercials....
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