Pomme::TAB

Source: XKCD

… this web comics suggests a possible use for it

kew.jpg

Originally uploaded by markwaddington.

I would like to thank fellow flickr user MarkWaddington for sharing this beautiful picture of Kew during Christmas in my flickr group West London. The colours on the water are wonderful.

You may already know about this robot vacuum cleaner, the roomba.

You may already know how hackable it is and that an entire community has appeared around it.

You are not impressed anymore by all the hacks that involve Apple Sudden Motion Sensor.

Now, a new step has been reached: Tilt and roll your MacBook to control your Roomba.
It uses Bluetooth, the MacBook SMS and a perl script.

Details here.

A few months ago, a colleague of mine showed me this brilliant visual story but later I couldn’t access the page anymore when I wanted to, until somebody submitted it again on Digg. Enjoy!

read more | digg story

Joy Of Tech once again delivers stories we can relate to ours

Updated: Don’t forget to read the hilarious results of the poll underneath each comic.

… in the US.

“The popular BitTorrent client, Azureus has just struck a deal with the BBC to offer TV shows on its recently launched content store/website, Zudeo.”

read more | digg story

Waiting

Originally uploaded by Rija 2.0.

I’m back to London™ after one week spent under sunny Spain.
Just in time for the year end festivities
The week of work (wow!) in between is just a transition, the one you’ve got between two five-stars rated songs in iTunes.

I like maps. So here is a nice one representing the usage of Firefox in Europe:

source:

Boing Boing: Firefox ascendant in Europe

Few months ago, I posted an article about the misunderstandings and confusion that often occur when communicating by e-mail.

Because a picture is worth thousands words, here is a pie chart resulting from research done in the sixties:

The percentages describe the importance of the effect an attribute has on a the receiver of the communication (in a work environment). Because body language (non-verbal) and tone of voice are definitely not conveyed in an e-mail, it easy to see why e-mails are easily misunderstood (SMS is worst, but that’s another story). As a byproduct it also justify the existence of smileys.