For the past 3 weeks I’ve eaten a bacon sandwich every Friday morning. So, presumably, it’d be reasonable to assume that I’m going to eat another bacon sandwich this coming Friday morning too. I certainly hope so. I like bacon sandwiches. This is an example of inductive reasoning – that events in the past...
Read more →Google’s new Glass project, the always-on head-up-display visual interface to Google’s online services, is picking up pace. The developer version of the device is available, there are services going live pretty much daily, and plenty of op-ed pieces have been written to detail its myriad pros and cons. The reception for the device has...
Read more →“You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” When Dominic Monigihan said those now famous and perhaps-too-much-cited-in-Internet-forums words he was talking about people’s use of opinion to disguise arguments in favour of ill-informed and often wrong objective statements. To make an objective statement you should be able to...
Read more →One of the technologies that I use daily is Less, the CSS compiler. It’s awesome. It let’s you compile your CSS using variables and mixins. But one problem with Less is using in the browser is a pain. And when things are painful, it’s a sign you should automate. The Less compiler, lessc, is...
Read more →Epicurus had a bit of a bad name when he was alive. People in Athens where he lived thought of him as a hedonist, and thought the school he founded was all feasts and orgies. The reason for this misunderstanding was the fact he went around telling people that happiness was the be-all-and-end-all of...
Read more →Surprisingly little is known about Socrates. If we skim over the theory that Plato made him up, we know he was a philosopher who lived in Athens, we know he was married to Xanthippe, and we know he had three sons. As a philosopher, we know he used to hang about in Athenian marketplaces...
Read more →Start-up cliche #37 (of ∞) – “This app we’re working on is going to be the next !” The next Facebook is already being written. In an office somewhere, a team of developers are hacking together a new take on a social platform that’s going to replace the Facebook we all know and use...
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