Excerpts from my main blog...
"Fat Tax" she asked...? :: A friend of mine, doing some part time journalism, asked via FB status: "WHat do you think of the Fat Tax that is being proposed for aeroplanes"?My answer below.Define the Fat. Can the Fat make it to middle row without assistance or hinderance?What function would the collected "tax" serve? Thinning the Fat? Preventing the Fat from boarding in the first place?What is the "problem" that this is a "solution" to? Is the Fat on a plane a problem in the first place (considering the Fat has been able t...
The silly St Ives riddle :: Here's an old riddle:As I was going to St Ives,I met a man with seven wives.Each wife had seven sacks;Each sack had seven cats;Each cat had seven kittens.Kittens, cats, sacks, wives,How many were going to St Ives?The standard riddle answer is "Only one, the narrator. They met eachother, so the rest were coming from St Ives."That argument, however, is invalid. If they were that loaded, they would have been pretty slow, so could have been overtaken. And even if they weren't, they could have met wh...
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new blog... :: I finally got around to creating an Adobe blog for work-related posts. I was initially going to post the articles here, but then deicded against...The purpose is twofold:1) I will be able to put out the knwoledge I have accumulated to the general public without having to go through the hassle of making it an official publication (and be subject to the publication politics that may yet have it never see the day)2) Present my own style of technical writing. Anything that shows what I am capable of...
Could Apple steal the interactive web away from Adobe? :: I think all of you will have heard by now that Steve Jobs, the charismatic CEO of Apple, has labeled Adobe as "lazy" and panned Flash as being a "source of security vulnerabilities".Fine for him. If he does not want Flash on his iPads, that's cool beans, I ain't crying. I have no use for an iPad.It seems to make no sense...Most home and office users have Flash installed on their machines - Windows, Mac or Linux - because it's so far been useful. Flash is not only about creating lousy adverts or ...
Ooops - I ranted again :: Homeopathy on NHS? :: An instituition for science should fund what it can scientifically investigate.Homeopathy may work for some people, but without being able to tell what exactly is happening, it may yet be the Devil's work - if not Lady Luck.Herbalists on the other hand have mostly weeded out the quack practicies, and are under the branch of chemestry, their solutions can be gathered from fields and forests instead of bought, and made at home without needing a degree. Yet they get less attention than something th...