December 2011
11 posts
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Lego is for girls →
How do you market Lego to girls? Lego itself is historically bad at it, but now it’s trying again.
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Life at 33.6kbps
The average webpage is now almost a megabyte in size. Back in what I hate to refer to as “the day”, downloading a megabyte of data was a serious time investment. It still surprises me that every page click is now the equivalent of 20 minutes of 1998 online time. Which was 20p when it was 1p per minute. Also, I had a shit modem. It was more software than hardware. Like a car with an...
About that sculpture →
If you care.
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Jeopardy! Rage!
A few months ago, I caught a snippet of the US gameshow Jeopardy! Contestants are given answers to questions, and they have to figure out the question. Here is the answer a contestant was given.
“Dustin Shuler arranged eight of them on a spike to make a sculpture in 1989”
The question was:
“What is a car?”
That is not how any sane person would answer the question...
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What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 →
Interesting and scary all at the same time.
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The database was backed up on a server running version 10.50.2500. That version is incompatible with this server, which is running version 10.00.5500.
Dear Microsoft, I am running SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. So that must be version 10.00.5500. Which one is 10.50.2500, exactly? Do I download SQL Server 2008 Express Edition Service Pack 3 for that? Or do I need the non-Express Edition? Or do I...
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You know what’s very quick and simple to install? Not this:
I can have MySQL running in about 10 minutes from a standing start. SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, on the other hand, can’t even open it’s manager without having a “this might take a few minutes” box pop up. And I’ve been bumping heads with the installer for two hours now (how can I just install...
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I’m starting to read all news as pretty much the same these days:
David Cameron says he will fight to protect the UK national interest in discussions over a new EU Treaty but Ed Miliband says the UK is being “left on the sidelines”.
comes out as
David Cameron says something he thinks the public wants to hear, while Ed Miliband says something designed to make him look...
