Author: nickjones

Here is Hugh trying to redeem Budget Rent A Car system. Budget is the victim of one of my person embargoes ever since one of their franchisees took me to court over a broken rear screen in an estate car that I rented. I hotly disputed the case and gained a personal victory when the […]

From Reuters – “Albertsons Inc. has received a preliminary takeover bid from larger grocery store rival Kroger Co. (KR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , while its drug store unit has attracted bids from three pharmacy chains, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday”. So no mention of Tesco at all since Terry squashed the Albertson […]

Here is the first post using the quill pen tool in Flock. The new browser thats in Preview beta!Very clean interface and highly integrated with del.icio.us the online favourites tool, which I’m using more these days.Interestingly their preferred search engine is yahoo rather than google in firefox. Flock also has a nice box for entering […]

Very interesting debate in the House of Commons on 18th October 2005 started by our MP David Howarth on the current state of Mental Health provision here in Cambridge (UK) and a reply by the government spokesperson Caroline Flint. Some points – Cambridge’s population is expanding but payments to trust are based on historical populations. […]

Spot on article about using real landscapes when using exercise machines at gym. Wouldnt it be cool to race Lance Armstrong,whilst pedalling your gym bike, in The Tour de France game? Or go jogging in the Grand Canyon. Can’t be long before this sort of stuff happens. Maybe I should get building one! oPaul Kedrosky’s […]

“A person watching a silent two-second video clip of a teacher he or she has never met will reach conclusions about how good that teacher is that are very similar to those of a student who has sat in the teacher’s class for an entire semester” Powerful stuff must get Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Interesting article on relationship between behaviour and nutrition, taken from a BBC report. with results from a double blind study on prisoners done in 2002 by Bernard Gesch. An idea occuring to me that is that maybe aggresive behaviours would have an evolutionary benefit in starving populations.

So for the poor bloggers who worry about comment spam etc. How about the diamond producers who have to crunch their way through 100 tonnes of stone to find 35 carats (7gram’s) of diamonds at The Blaauwbosch mine in South Africa. According to my calculations thats 0.01ppm or in blog speak 1 good comment for […]

The Nokia E61 looks awesome and seems to have a MP3 player with miniSD card but no mention of a calender application etc. Does Symbian support the Palm calendar I wonder? + E60, E61 and E70

An article on Healthline a new search engine for medical advice. I just love this bit “and paid 1,100 doctors to create these maps and the underlying medical taxonomy. “That was part of the $24 million we burned through,” Will be interesting to see how fast they burn through the next $13m.