Archive for December, 2009

Those Google Chrome Ads

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Yesterday I happened to be waiting on a tube platform with a non-technical person, and we were opposite one of those new Google Chrome ads, as pictured here.

I’ve seen a few people comment that they didn’t think that a non-technical person would understand what they were all about, so I took the opportunity to ask [...]

Business proposition

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

I’m wondering if you could take all the “fun” manual jobs like smashing things with hammers, and contract them out to normally-desk-bound people, who do it for minimum wage (for the task at hand). So then you have a large work force who individually only do the manual work for a small part of [...]

The dark side of Dubai; the dark side of us

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I saw a link to this article about Dubai on Twitter today. Like zts, I found it an extremely disturbing read, stopping at many points to read out loud to anyone who would listen. I recommend that you read it too.
After having read through it, I suppose my first thought is to wonder [...]