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  • The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

    February 3, 2010 | Categories: Interesting

    [This is absolutely brilliant](http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/the-hierarchy-of-digital-distractions/) and so very true…. ([full picture here](http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-hierarchy-of-digital-distractions/), it’s worth it)

  • Hitler’s reaction to the iPad

    January 31, 2010 | Categories: iPad

    I’ll have more to say on the iPad in time – it’s clearly important, I’ll get one and if the US price point translates, we’ll probably get them for most...

  • Clay Shirky’s rant on women (in the workplace)

    January 18, 2010 | Categories: Work

    We employ a lot of women – it wasn’t deliberate, although if I am allowed to generalise a bit I suspect the work we do means that qualities associated with...

  • Apple TV, Parental Controls, Ooops

    January 18, 2010 | Categories: Apple , 'Being a Parent'

    So we have AppleTVs on all the TVs in the house. Works great, we have a server which runs iTunes and has all the Music/Video on. The boys are getting...

  • Um, about this whole anti-Private school thing

    January 18, 2010 | Categories: 'Being a Parent'

    The Telegraph has [an article](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7012085/Professions-told-Cut-private-school-recruits.html) about how the “Professions” have been told to cut down on the number of Private school people they take – apparently this is discriminatory against...

  • The snow of 1963 was really scary!

    January 9, 2010 | Categories: 'Current Events'

    Yes, this sucks. No fun whatever now, and we’ve got a few more days to go it seems. I read something about the big freeze in 1962/63 – it didn’t...