Micro Loans Fly–Kiva visualised
Amazing visualisation of Kiva Loans Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva on Vimeo.
Web/Tech
Learning in the cloud
Brilliant story, technology and people changing lives. School in the cloud: Children with mentors on the other side of the worldAn unlikely friendship between an Indian schoolboy and a retired teacher in London is showing how a new approach to teaching and technology is changing lives.BBC NewsByAlison GeeBBC World
The joy of a hosted blog
TypePad was briefly off-line this week but was pretty much fixed by the time I saw this tweet: We really appreciate our bloggers - through this frustrating downtime you have been gracious, witty, and tenacious. Thank you very much!March 5, 2014 They were subject to a distributed denial of
Weblogs
How Facebook Knows What You Looked at on Amazon
While not CAD related thought this post by Dare might be of interest. Have you noticed adverts showing up that relate to other sites and wondered how that happens? How Facebook Knows What You Looked at on Amazon - www.25hoursaday.com As part of my day job at Microsoft,
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OneNote or Evernote?
I saw this question on Twitter from Edwin: @EdwinPrakoso I chose One Note as got "free" with Office & @windowsphone supports — Robin Capper (@robincapper) October 14, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js I’m a OneNote novice, just basic lists and notes, but have used it more since
All my Tweets, Wordled
I requested my Twitter archive and created this summary with Wordle. A neat way to see what, and who, has got my attention on Twitter since joining in 2009 To make yours: 1. Log in to twitter.com, settings and request your archive. 2. Download the .csv file from the
Google FeedBurner: unreliable rubbish or deliberately misreporting?
I don't chase blog stats but wondered what the demise of Google Reader would mean for RSS use. It appears that Feedburner (which I use for watching that) is either broken or blatantly lies. My Feedburner Subscribers (the green line below) plummeted from ~9500 to ~250 after Google
Thoughts on the demise of Google Reader
Google are killing Reader, their RSS feed aggregator: Official Blog: A second spring of cleaning “We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage
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NeatStreets + Smartphone = Smarter Safer Neighbourhood
I’ve been using this app for a while and find it really does help get things done. NeatStreets combines smartphone geo-location, photos and social reporting to make it really easy to report community hazards. Categories include Litter, Graffiti, Flood Damage, Footpath, Parking, Potholes, Signage, Traffic & Street Lights, Trolleys
A swell battery no more
The elderly (work) HP 2710p Convertible Tablet PC got a bit fatter today. It’s about 5 years old and had a slim extra battery pack which clipped on the bottom extending battery life from a couple of hours to about eight. I picked it up from the desktop dock
Google reveals the internet is a series of tubes!
Remember that line about the Internet being "a series of tubes"? Some amazing photos of a place that is Google: Google reveals photos of its data centres - www.dezeen.com
The phone that isn't…
Quite amusing to see how little I phone or text with a smart phone. Seems the smart bit is more important than the phone bit...