Read an article on a business networking site. And by that, I mean read a subject line which linked off the site to where the article was hosted. I found it interesting that the article itself had about 1400 characters in it - but the page it was on needed 1400 kilobytes to download. I have to wonder if 0.1% content is normal for today's web. A ( Read more... )

I think we all have some form of this list, even if it's just vague "pay off the debts, nice house, nice car, world cruise" thoughts which occasionally drift by when we pay the bills ( Read more... )

Currently, I have multiple levels of mail filter running ( Read more... )

While I don't like to crow "Told you so!"...

Oh, wait. Yes I do.In other news, my great-aunt (b.1917) passed on this morning after ten years of increasing decline. She was the last of her generation on my mother's side of the family ( Read more... )

Question out of the blue - how much money would I need to be handed (after tax etc) to be set for the rest of my life, taking into account inflation but assuming no investment or earned interest ( Read more... )

The Overthinkers Club, on InsaneJournal.

Data point 1: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Units_of_time/Continuity
(Marvel Comics units of time in TransformersThere are precisely two useful items there: A 'breem' is 8.3 minutes, and a 'vorn' is 83 years ( Read more... )

Given that solar cells just cracked the 40% efficiency barrier not too long ago, and electric cars are down to needing around 10kWh per 100km, and given the usual variations in solar flux, and assuming you can cram 3 square metres of solar cells onto the top surfaces of a car, plus another 2 on each side (although only one side would be able to ( Read more... )

Just thinking - if I'm going to be taking on an independent consulting role of a type which would mean a client probably wouldn't need me again for four or five years after I'd done my thing, it might be an idea to be based somewhere with a lot of potential clients ( Read more... )

Another call from a recruiter today offering a possible full-time position with a half-billion-dollar-a-year group of companies. The details were sketchy, so I'll be having a chat with him tomorrow to fill in the gaps. It doesn't seem to pay brilliantly, and isn't really the consulting gig I was after, but I'll let him say his piece ( Read more... )

Not much luck trying to sell the house. Probably because at the moment, there are several dozen of much the same or slightly larger land area for sale in the same suburb. If we wanted to jump up to the exclusive, high-price-per-square-metre bracket, we'd need to have about twice the area.

*reads local newspaper*

Odd. It says here that next door, ( Read more... )