Monday, March 24, 2014

Encyclopedia Britannica lives - at least on iOS

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As a kid I wanted to read the encyclopedia - from A to Z. We couldn’t afford an encyclopedia though , so I had to make do with the dictiona...
Monday, March 17, 2014

What you sign up for when you pay Virgin Mobile Canada for phone services

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I've once again gone through the tricky process of setting up a Virgin Mobile Canada prepaid account  on an unlocked AT&T iPhone. T...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Late revelation -- Doom of the Face

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I have the face of a Disney villain . This came to me as a slowly unfolding personal revelation after reading Emily Matchar’s humorous ess...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

I need a word for the willful failure of reason

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Kahneman 's  Thinking Fast and Slow is a brain dump of his research career and speculations about mind. The Wikipedia description isn&#...
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How could we create an evidence-based classification of disorders of the mind?

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The software/hardware metaphor is usually considered as misleading as every other model of mind we've come up with. I don't agree. ...

Why geezers hit the gym (warning - for mature audiences only)

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Today's CrossFit workout was open   14.2 . With low weights and bands I sort of got through part of the 3rd round. The world record is ...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Mobile carrier SMS pricing created the messaging lottery - and WhatsApp won it

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If mobile carriers priced MMS/SMS messaging as a dumb pipe data service, there'd be no WhatsApp. But mobile carriers wanted short term r...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

Vanguard and Fidelity: When did civilization collapse again?

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I must have been asleep when civilization collapsed. Anyone know the date? I say this because I haven't done much with our mutual funds...
Sunday, February 02, 2014

21st century market failure: what the rise and fall of Guitar Hero teaches about gamification

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My oldest wants to learn to play drums. Learning is difficult for him, and the Smart Music program his school uses is obviously too sophisti...
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Bad backs: not necessarily hopeless

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I set a Crossfit deadlift "PR" (personal record) today. My best is not a big deal for anyone else. I'm among the weakest of ...
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After the Smart TV debacle: what we really want

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Years after everyone else, I reluctantly retired our 25yo SONY Trinitron CRT and it's (free, subsidized) A/D converter box  and naively ...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

Valerie Plame Wilson on the NSA, Keith Alexander, and Edward Snowden

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Ten years ago Karl Rove, Richard Armitage and Lewis Libby took revenge on a man who'd exposed some of Bush/Cheney's Iraq lies. Thei...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Why do corporations do lifestyle "wellness" programs?

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Even with rather generous tax breaks, wellness programs cost corporations money. So why pay companies like South Africa's Vitality Group...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Beware fees and interest payments if you use credit card to wire money

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Due to a family emergency I had to send money to a relative twice in two months. Each time I used MoneyGram  and paid for the transaction wi...
Friday, December 27, 2013

How to evaluate a publicly traded corporate employer

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There are many articles on how to judge employees, and many on how to manage typical employee interviews. What I don't see are blog post...