2014

I find it really hard to believe that Leeds United FC can’t pay its wages, and hasn’t really been a viable business since 2001 or thereabouts, while Leeds RLFC remains a powerhouse club and one of the richest in Rugby League. Dave Hadfield called the chapter on Leeds in Up and Over “League in its…

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I got around to rebuilding the Linux dualboot setup that was destroyed in this post. Today’s beautiful thought, then, is as follows. Apparently, as a matter of policy, suspend-to-disk or hibernation is not wanted in Ubuntu any more. As a result, Canonical removed the menu items and other stuff from 13.10 and beyond. You can…

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I am really impressed both by this OpenNews post about how to tackle a huge pile of documents, and also by the tools recommended. After all: What I received a month later from Nash County, N.C., were two boxes filled with thousands of printed pages of emails. Double-sided. One of the problems it solves is…

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You think #MH370 is Ballardian? Kicking it up a notch: The tests showed that brands outperformed people where a person’s relationship to a product was tied to a story–such as the subject who loved his watch, which was handed down from his father, more than his girlfriend, or the man whose life-long love of the…

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1: Houses have got stupid expensive. You may have noticed Here’s a great chart from James Plunkett of the Resolution Foundation, making the point that it will take you your life to save for a deposit. Note that the curve takes off like a homesick angel in the mid-90s, when prices start back up again,…

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