Identity Card Application
Applied for my ID card today, very smooth process and only costs £30 for 10 years of travelling to Europe (plus the travel tickets of course!) Continue reading Identity Card Application
Improper Ganda!
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/improper-propaganda-posters.php?page=1 A fantastic collection of propaganda posters that have been photoshopped to change the message. Very funny, especially the re-enactment one, and the Cthulhu poster. Worth a few minutes of browsing past in my opinion.
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
subtitle: The Impact of the Highly Improbable I heard the author on Radio 4 and was intrigued with his central premise that there are wholly unpredictable random events which throw a spaner in the works and about how we often infer things Continue reading The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
McKinsey Invented Matrix Games
Most of today I spent on a training course called “Top Down Thinking” being run by a nice chap from PA Consulting who is the project’s workstream leader for technology. What was most interesting for me was the way it Continue reading McKinsey Invented Matrix Games
7th July – A Year after the Bombs
Well I’m sitting in exactly the same place as I was this time last year when I heard about the bombings, which is in my office in Central London. I had expected it to be a bit quieter on the Continue reading 7th July – A Year after the Bombs