Posts by jon_knox
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
I might have missed the boat on this thread, but I was checking out Megite being an algorithm based topic reccommendation site which is not a million miles from Metafilter that Stephen Judd mentioned. Actually much of the reccommended links are common between the 2 sites and found (finally bringing this back onto topic- phew!) Tim O'Reilly's call for a bloggers code of conduct, which covers much of the ground that was discussed above.
-
Craig Ranapia wrote:
Grant:
Remove the pseudo-academic verbiage
Am I the only person reading this and thinking "Pot calling kettle, come in kettle"?
Craig, I like & appreciate that you're prepared to voice an opposing opinion in many of the discussions on Public Address, though I often find myself struggling more with your turn of phrase, than the ideas you're expressing.
Perhaps you're not a pseudo-academic ;o)
-
Just found an interesting feedscraper. Which does something that I'd considered hacking together some time ago.
For those of you who are RSS enabled I'd be interested to learn if this works for you (I've been using netvibes as my reader).
-
Those DIY context tags are great!
I concur with Che's heroic retreat. Step slowly away from the internet Juha....No sudden movements.....Nice & slow.....Go quietly and you won't get hurt.
<can one of the moderators send someone round to Juha's...I think he'll offer little resistance...check the usual places for dismembered bodies & stove for bunnies being boiled. Be really, really, careful though!>.
-
that's what my friends with 'proper' jobs keep suggesting...
'proper' jobs of course being a euphemistic term for work performed by those without one or more of the following:
Creative talent.
Guts to earn a living out of their creative talents.
Lack of success in earning a living from their creative talent....er I mean failure to recognise their true creative talent.
Perhaps the PA in "PA System" stands for "Procrastinators Anonymous". (Oops there's one of these already). But it sure beats working! -
Several people have emailed me to ask if I was serious in this explanation of last week's post.
<sarcastic font>Let me be the first to enquire then if you are not serious in your explanation of last week's post.</sarcastic font>
Hopefully that should address some of the imbalance in the cosmic forces that you mention.
"Freelance writer" - isn't that a euphemism for....
(Nice work!. Congratulations on the life change)
-
David Haywood wrote:
Don't you realize that your inability to understand my post is simply an extension of your patriarchal fear of castration?
Close. I'd suggest that it was UNIX rather than anything to do with eunuchs, though many might suggest they both have the same outcome.
-
Cheers Don.
I had a chat with my better half about this last night, as she is a scientist working in medical research. She indicated that it's likely that given the vaccination program is only a few years old that it may be too early to really be able to meaningfully determine the success of the program.
This was in stark contrast of my desire for results to be apparent immediately. (this always-connected/Internet-age thingo is doing nothing to improve my patience!).
Given the amount of dollars that are rumoured to have been spent on the vaccination program, I'd think the parties responsible for the money would have rounded up a bunch of the relevant experts (across Public Health & Stats), who devised a cunning bunch of early indicators and planned a checkpoint at a suitably early point in the program. If the early checkpoint metrics were indicating at the that the program was not hitting the projected targets, then they roll into the plan about seeking to identify the causes and what should be done to rectify.
Perhaps this is already in place or was on the "nice to have" list, but not actually implemented...I dunno? (and now resume my impression of ostrich with head in sand).
-
Perhaps I've gone bonkers.
I couldn't see where Don got this quote from:
"The fact is that the rate of hospitalization is the same for vaxed and non-vaxed kids".
"Rates of infection are almost identical for both populations. The vaccine isn't working".
I'd expect that if people are vaccinated against a particular disease, infection rates should decline (or perhaps in the case of an epidemic/snowball situation the rate of increase in infection slows or stabilises) . If there isn't a decline in the rate of infection (or rate of increase in infection) then I've got to wonder what 's going on regardless of the amount of dollars spent.
I don't have an axe to grind around this, but kinda wonder what all the fuss is about.
-
Eyespot is good for making video content, though perhaps not quite good enough for TV, it's good for slow afternoons and perhaps little hands like Leo.