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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Ikea, God, and crash helmets

Martin Roth wrote an article The Bible vs. the Ikea Catalogue - Which is Winning Hearts? Ikea is a Swedish furniture store, selling some really good looking stuff at prices a little high for my liking. 115 million copies of their 2003 catalogue have been printed, and there's a

Money Matters

Now this is eminently sensible. In addition to teaching about English, maths and science, the National Curriculum will teach them to handle money. BBC News story: Lessons in money for school children School children are about to start learning how to deal with debt, save for retirement and even what

The Living Web

Link from Simon Warren. Mark Bernstein's article on A List Apart: 10 Tips on writing the living web. Worth the read. In summary: 1. Write for a reason 2. Write often 3. Write tight 4. Make good friends 5. Find good enemies 6. Let the story unfold 7.

Google blocked?

BBC News story: China 'blocking Google'. China appears to have blocked access to the popular search engine, Google. The site was repeatedly inaccessible when tested by BBC News Online using a system developed by the researchers at the Harvard Law School. Google has become popular among users in

Sheep

Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the

Random bits

Chronicle has been seriously refactored, and now runs as a stand-alone executable JAR file. Huge improvement, start up time is well down, and a 0.25 release is in the works. This is what happens when Hubby gets into Extreme Programming in a big way. Roxanne left with the

Time

The trouble with this work thing is that it takes up such a huge chunk of time. Next week is supposed to be my last week, but my boss said I'll probably still be there in October. This is good on the wireless networking and Xbox front, and

Good news for geeks

BBC News story: Caffeine 'may cure skin cancer' Caffeine could one day be used to cure skin cancer, scientists believe. Researchers in the United States have found that caffeine combined with an extract from green tea can kill the disease in mice. They have discovered that rubbing both

All things bright and sparkly

Oh frabjous joy! The Rio Grande catalog arrived yesterday with all kinds of shiny and sparkly things in it! Simulated Alexandrite, robin's egg turquoise, and the only Byzantine chain necklace I've ever seen for sale. It's a little alarming to see gold, silver, and

Waah!

I am trying to learn to touch type. I have gone from my usual 38-46 words per minute at 98% accuracy (temp companies test these things) to something more like 10 wpm and I feel crippled. Why on earth didn't they teach this at school? And me

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