Here's a dump of recent bike rides... All distances deserve an ish near them. Work to accountant: 3km Work to accountant and then uni: 6km Work around lake and back: 23km Home to investment property: 10km Work to pub: 3km Work to pub: 3km I've done around 60km since learning to ride. Not too shabby me thinks. [icbm: home]
An interview with a Mythbuster. Did you know the show was an Australian concept? Or that they get gay fan mail? [icbm: dcs]
John Battelle implies that the new search result page being testing by Google could make evilness easier in the future. The premise is that offering alternate queries might be useful now, but it would make it easier to insert paid listings later. I'm confused though, and John doesn't have a comment link in his RSS output, so I'll post it here. Surely if Google wanted to embrace evil later, they could just direct their coders to make it happen? They already know what keywords you're searching for (i.e. Adwords), couldn't they just roll those into the page in a way which looks like search results? I see no real way this positions for future evil. I've been keeping an eye on Google news recently, and there seems to be a propensity towards paranoia in a lot of people (for instance the gmail displaying Adwords thing). If people are bothered, why don't they just use another search engine? You can't tell me that MSN and Yahoo! are any less evil...
I've always wondered where the SUV proliferation in the US came from. This article assures me that it's because the US federal government tried to make cars more fuel efficient. Interesting, if it's correct. Nick Hac. [icbm: work]
Because the Average Joe is looking for one. [icbm: home]
Your honour, they can't prove we didn't lie in our story. Arguing that you could have lied in a journalistic story as a defence? Either Channel 7 is populated with such morons that you shouldn't be watching, or they can't be trusted. Pick. [icbm: home]
Let your development team spend a day hacking on a feature they care about. Sounds like a great idea to me. I look around at a lot of the developers I know and they're running at 50% efficiency because they feel bored doing what the managers say they should the whole time, and the product suffers as a result. Is your company having trouble with staff churn? It's probably because you don't let your employees become passionate any more. [icbm: home]
Sydney, Australia is in Google Maps. Satellite imagery only, but it's a start. Via the Unofficial Google Weblog. [icbm: home]
So, your code leaks and you need a technique for finding what object you're leaking, so grab a couple of addresses at random and dump them. Chances are, they're the object your leaking. This technique is so sexy in it's beauty. [icbm: home]
Re-shelve copies of 1984 under "current affairs" or "politics" in your local bookshop. [icbm: work]