Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Tweet Well, actually a fiver. I'm running my first marathon this year, and what with the old hip, general age and fondness for beer and pie, I figure this may be the only one I do. So I thought I'd...
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Bavathursdays, messiness is part of the plan
Tweet <Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanislands/3716274762/ by Viqi French> Last night I joined Jim Groom for a live session on DS106 Radio. The idea was to chat about 80s b-movies, an...
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Job selection and the paradox of choice
Tweet <Image by Ted Percival http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedpercival/3115404982/> I read Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice recently (after Erik Duval recommended it). The title kind of...
View ArticleMrs T & the battle for history
Tweet (or, yes, another bloody Mrs Thatcher post). The passing of Mrs T has led to some interesting reactions in our house. My wife, raised in the Welsh valleys, and who saw her village go from a...
View ArticlePity the austerity natives
Tweet Mike Caulfield has a post on how automation of middle-class jobs, increases competition for poory paid job, which removes the incentive to innovate in technology for those jobs. It made me think...
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MOOCs as Eddie Murphy
Tweet File under: pointless things that occur to you while walking the dog. My daughter came across Beverley Hills Cop on TV the other day, and then worked her way through a range of Eddie Murphy...
View ArticleSteve Jobs isn’t your role model
Tweet Others have written about this, so I’m not saying anything new here, but it’s my blog, so I get to vent when I want, and I’m amazed at how much of this Steve Jobs as role model stuff still...
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Robotisation will follow digitisation’s path
Tweet Robots aren’t really my area of expertise, but they’re this year’s thing, in movies and the news. This BBC article “Will machines eventually take on every job?” is fairly typical. However, I...
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DashLearn – the Amazon Dash for Learning
[Following on from my piece on Pokemon Go, this week’s thing is Amazon Dash, so getting in with a “for learning” piece before anyone else. And in case it isn’t sledgehammer obvious, it’s parody] “This...
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The lesson of Mabon’s Day
This is one of those “thoughts I had while walking the dog that I might as well blog before I forget them” posts. It concerns a little known holiday in Wales, and the relevance this has for...
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