Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
If you’re ready to think of your blog as a business (one of the hot topics over onThird Tribe Marketing), one way to do that is to start thinking of your blog content as the core of a distribution flow. In the little drawing to the left, I’ve put your subject matter at the heart of your system, and then have recommended you look at your blog, other products, education, and partnerships as the four areas you might consider. Note how I’ve moved your blog off to a branch and not to the heart of the drawing. Let’s talk through it.
Enough. You are not a small organisation and you are going to hell in a hay-cart if you don’t sort out your password mess. I don’t really care that much at all except that, for about 2 things, I have to maintain a Yahoo account. I do not imagine that I am the first person who has sought to bring this to your attention. That’s all I want to say about that.
one way to deal with the meeting someone to transition roadmap …
A Montreal man has had his lawsuit against Air Transat dismissed. He was suing the airline because the flight attendants refused to help him look at his scrotum and determine why it had started bleeding on a flight (they gave him some sanitary towels and told him they’d land for emergency medical attention if it got worse). On arrival in Mexico, the man saw a doctor who determined that the problem was a ruptured vein near his scrotum.
The government signalled the end of intercity motorway building today as it announced plans for a £30bn high-speed rail network, with the first phase between London and Birmingham opening in 2026.
Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, said the motorway network had reached its limit and the burden of ferrying millions more people between cities would instead be taken by fleets of trains travelling at up to 250mph. Work on the first phase linking the capital and England’s second city could begin in 2017 after a formal public consultation, Adonis said.
Having pledged to eliminate demand for domestic air travel with ultra-fast trains, the transport secretary took on motorways in a 152-page “command paper”. He said: “I do not envisage building another generation of intercity motorways.”
Back in January 2009, as Vodafone was preparing to close a £20 million ($30 million) deal to buy Swedish mapmaker Wayfinder, it was seen as a bold move from a carrier intent on entering the apparently lucrative market for location based services. Fast forward to the present day — past the bit where free Google Maps Navigation destroyed TomTom and Garmin share prices, and past the introduction of free turn-by-turn navigation to Nokia’s Ovi Maps — and you’ll find Wayfinder gently sobbing into a handkerchief as it permanently closes up its doors. Vodafone’s Anna Cloke gives us the reason for it with devastating concision:
“We could not charge for something that others gave away for free.”
So there we have it, the paid navigation services deathwatch has its first fatality, and it’s the unfortunate nature of the beast that plenty of others will be following suit, unable to resist the destructive effects of the free and ubiquitous services now on offer.
Helmets often cause rotational injuries to head and neck. A helmet, well or poorly-fitted can act like a large wrench on the head leading to a twisted (or worse) neck. This is why aerodynamic time-trial helmets are so dangerous, but it doesn’t stop rubes buying them in Condor to ride the DD. This looks interesting but does mean that the oft-repeated twist injury has its foundations in fact.
Until one of the myriad of ideas to cut down on auto-bike accidents is successfully implemented in cities nationwide, perhaps we should focus some energy on finding ways to minimize cyclist injury in the meantime. A new helmet designed for motorcyclists aims to do just that. According to Treehugger, Lazer Helmets created a helmet with a biomimicry-based Superskin membrane on the inside of the hard exterior to follow the movement of a cyclist’s head-on impact. As Stephen Knowles from the International Design Consultancy explained:
Traditionally, motorcycle helmets have been rigid in design. We needed to introduce a dynamic element of movement to dramatically reduce the rotational impact which often causes life-threatening injuries. On impact, the outer membrane is able to stretch and slide over the main helmet shell to prevent these dangerous rotational forces being transmitted to the head and brain.
Treehugger has a video demonstration of the head’s movement in both a traditional helmet and the Lazer helmet and the decrease in head movement is pretty significant. Hopefully the helmet can be augmented for bicycle riders, at least until the great auto-cycle debate comes to an end and we can learn to share the road.
A Single Man, (beautiful, love the dinner-party scene 8.0/10 IMDB)
There Will be blood, (Grumpy-man fest, not like rigs I was on 8.2/10 IMDB)
MicMacs, (Sepia, steampunk-on-the-cheap drivel. Was this a contractual-obligation showing? 7.4/10 IMDB)
The girl on the bridge, (Absolutely bloody marvellous!!! Can’t praise it enough, Autueil/Paradis. I see what Johnny Depp meant about her back. 7.5/10 IMDB)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, (great laugh, great ideas and budget-concerns only showing occasionally. You could have pushed me over with a stick that it was the Goss lad. 7.4/10 IMDB)
Talented Mr Ripley, (Always try to go to bed when it comes on and always get stuck watching it develop. Scary if completely implausible, Philip Seymour Hoffman a riot. It is said the books are good, 7.2/10 IMDB)
have been listening to:
Mumford and Sons, Sigh no more and Maccabees, Wall of arms and other Arcade Fire/Eels/Low Anthem wannabees. It’s getting harder for me to tell them all apart and especially from the sounds first time around as I hear too much ‘legacy’ these days.
Very disappointed in the new Gorillaz album Plastic Beach but what do I know? Last one took a while to grow to ‘good’. Perhaps a long drive or train-journey will help me dig it more.
Initially big disappointment in the new Yeasayer album Odd Blood which, in parts, is almost Stock, Aitken and Waterman and there’s a video for O.N.E on Prettymuchamazing that looks like Phil Oakey might walk on any minute! On the other hand, played on shuffle with a MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular the pedals turned. Back to Yeasayer Ambling Alp was a big video. See they are in London 26 May.
Am probably listening to too much Scott Walker and perhaps turning into Anthony Newley. Posted a song at the RADIO FOOL in the right side-bar – in a stupid-assed way. Still it’s a change from Autumn’s constant playlist of Joy Division, Smiths and Leonard Cohen with the significant stayer presently scrobbling to last.fm still being A Fine Frenzy, Bob Dylan and Arctic Monkeys.
have Been reading:
The Twittersphere. The Rings of Saturn, WG Sebald. Maps and guide-books to the Swiss Alps …
Low point was going to Diwanas in Drummond Street at the beginning of this week, which has been my favourite restaurant since about 1977, and discovering that it has become distinctly average! For all of this time they have made the best samosas this side of Bombay, no longer.
If you didn’t want to know you shouldn’t have read it.
Brief voluntary or incidental submersion may be included in lessons under the guidance of the teacher and at the discretion of the accompanying adult. Neither forced nor prolonged submersions are recommended.
At the end of October I took a bit of a chance and ordered a new type of dynamo light from www.magtenlight.com, a company based in Hong Kong.
I couldn’t find much about it on the web, but I thought someone has to be first and it wasn’t that expensive (and ok, I’d had a couple of glasses of wine!)
Edit: was about €65, though I see it’s now €99
I’ve been using it for about a month of regular commuting now so it’s time for a review.
It’s a bit Heath Robinson, but for someone who isn’t organised enough to have good batteries or keep a rechargeable charged, and who can finish work 3 hours or more later than she expected to, it’s fantastic. I really hope my worries about durability are unfounded.
I don’t know how it would compare to a hub-dynamo performance-wise as I’ve never tried one, but it was cheaper and easier to fit.
The US-based International Intellectual Property Alliance has asked the US Trade Rep to add Indonesia to its list of rogue nations that don’t respect copyright. What did Indonesia do to warrant inclusion on this “301 list”? Its government had the temerity to advise its ministries to give preference to free/open source software because it will cost less and reduce the use of pirated proprietary software in government. According to the IPA, this movement to reduce copyright infringement is actually bad for copyright, because “it fails to build respect for intellectual property rights and also limits the ability of government or public-sector customers (e.g., State-owned enterprise) to choose the best solutions.”
So autumn and winter spent in Sheffield and all my tools in London so JE James servicing bikes. Chain and brakes ‘consumed’ of course as Sheffield so hilly. My verdict on disc brakes; great, but when they go it’s almost instant! In homage to the E8 Hai Ha awarded myself a Viet lunch after sweaty session at Ponds Forge! Tiptop!
Still not showing up on the iPhone for London. I suppose my impatience is showing. There won’t be a party going on over at Garmin and Tom Tom as this gets rolled out..
The entire family of devices built on the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) have been designed to run only software that is approved by Apple—a major shift from the norms of the personal computer market. Software developers who want Apple’s approval must first agree to the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement.
So today we’re posting the “iPhone Developer Program License Agreement“—the contract that every developer who writes software for the iTunes App Store must “sign.” Though more than 100,000 app developers have clicked “I agree,” public copies of the agreement are scarce, perhaps thanks to the prohibition on making any “public statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties without Apple’s express prior written approval.” But when we saw the NASA App for iPhone, we used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ask NASA for a copy, so that the general public could see what rules conrolled the technology they could use with their phones. NASA responded with the Rev. 3-17-09 version of the agreement (it has reportedly been revised somewhat since—please send us the current version if you are able).
King’s College London president Rick Trainor announced recently that the university would be closing the chair of paleography, the UK’s only one. Held by Professor David Ganz, the chair of paleography is the position that overseas a discipline many consider to be a vital component of historical research. Paleography is the study of ancient manuscripts and has pieced together and deciphered many of the texts that have provided the basis for our knowledge of history.
Budget cuts are the precipitating factor, or rather “strategic disinvestment” as the official announcement goes, but they’re being met with some resistance.
“Palaeography is not simply an arcane auxiliary science,” says Professor Jeffrey Hamburger, chair of medieval studies at Harvard University. “It is as basic to the training and practice of historians as mastery of Dos or Unix might be to a computer scientist.”
Face it, you’ve got to be some kind of green saint to use only permanent tableware all the time. Every once in a while, at a small art opening or knitting circle you’ve got to have disposable dishes. For those times, when you still want your table to look great, there are some perfectly beautiful options available. But in that rare case when you’re having a get together for your entire family tree, or Christmas party at work, and you need hundreds of disposable dishes, sexy can be just a little too expensive. Luckily, going cheap doesn’t mean letting mamma earth down…
If you have to wear something for a long time then you might as well make it interesting. Casttoos are decorative prints that can be applied to casts. The coolest option by far though has to be the x-ray film copying service. You send them a copy of your x-ray film and they turn it into a casttoo.
"There is no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire." (Yeah right. Who believes that? Ed). "Let's face the music and dance."
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
Until one of the myriad of ideas to cut down on auto-bike accidents is successfully implemented in cities nationwide, perhaps we should focus some energy on finding ways to minimize cyclist injury in the meantime. A new helmet designed for motorcyclists aims to do just that. According to Treehugger, Lazer Helmets created a helmet with a biomimicry-based Superskin membrane on the inside of the hard exterior to follow the movement of a cyclist’s head-on impact. As Stephen Knowles from the International Design Consultancy explained:
