Monthly Archives: February 2013
Killing the Myth of Speed Equalling Poor Writing
Killing the Myth of Speed Equalling Poor Writing Apparently writing 250 words per day works out to around 90000 words a year which is an average paperback novel. Writing 250 words takes about 15 minutes so you could be a novel a year author by writing 15 minutes a day. It’s probably an oversimplification or at least […]
CANONICAL UNVEILS UBUNTU FOR TABLETS, DEVELOPER PREVIEW AVAILABLE FOR NEXUS DEVICES ON THURSDAY
Other than “Wow! This is so cool! We can actually do this! I iz teh h@ck3r!!”, I’m not sure why we would need yet another mobile OS.
Cyber-Warfare & China
“An official, shadowy Chinese hacker group…” – Isn’t that a bit dramatic? If it’s true and not propaganda then there’s nothing “shadowy” about this group of hackers. In China, you need to be state-sanctioned or you can’t operate, plain and simple. Cyber-warfare has finally started to be visible in any case. It was only a […]
Morality in Economics (and Elsewhere)
I just finished listening to CBC: The Invisible Hand, Episode 10 – Homo Economicus 2.0. The gist of the podcast was discussing the idea of economists modelling human behaviour in the marketplace via a sort of wire frame person acting its own self interest dubbed “Homo Economicus“. In recent years, an attempt has been made […]
The Emporium of Lost Thoughts 