Ed's blog

hammers and nuts

simnett — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:41:48 +0000

Sometimes I think people try to take imaginary sledgehammers to crack non-existent nuts.\\n\\n This usually happens when people think they have a great solution to a problem, but they don\\\’t, but it doesn\\\’t matter, the problem doesn\\\’t really exist anyway.

Music genres

simnett — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:40:56 +0000

I was wondering if “alternative is the new mainstream” recently. I was quite surprised that this is not a more general meme.

with all due apologies

simnett — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:57:20 +0000

There are things that are known, and things unknown, and in between are the excel spreadsheets

The weather in Prague is very nice at this time of year

simnett — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:50:40 +0000

I always thought that this was a classic cold war movie pass phrase, with a response like Rosebud, or something equally tangential. Surprised not to find it as a quote in any search engines…

JChris is off to Prague, which prompted the thought.

Religious debates?

simnett — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:34:41 +0000

From discussions yesterday:

This is effectively a religious debate: I believe in one God, and you believe in three Gods, and now you are asking me what color hat the second God is wearing…

on remodeling projects

simnett — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:04:50 +0000

You can’t hire cheap people to do clever work, and clever people won’t do cheap work… (credit to MAHS for inspiration)

Observation of the day

simnett — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:32:50 +0000

That idea/concept is like a unicorn, perfect in everyway, except it doesn’t exist.

jet lag induced(?) observation of the day

simnett — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:02:40 +0000

The problem with booms is that the rising tide tends to make being clever redundant, at best, and very often counterproductive.

Ed Sim on Facebook vs Linkedin

simnett — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:17:10 +0000

Ed Sim on Facebook vs Linkedin

LinkedIn has repeatedly stated that it believes people will have two profiles, one professional that is maintained on LinkedIn and one personal which is maintained on MySpace or Facebook. I don’t doubt that at this time, but I must admit that while Facebook has mostly been about friends and personal relationships, I have been surprised at the number of professional and business contacts wanting to add me as a friend on Facebook ever since it opened up its platform.

My comment

… I have used Linkedin since the early days, and am now facebooking (post APIs etc). There are clearly link/friend collectors on both networks… (more)

Evolution of Religion?

simnett — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:10:35 +0000

Look what Wilson thinks of Dawkins on religion

In The God Delusion Dawkins makes it clear that he loathes religion for its intolerance, blind faith, cruelty, extremism, abuse, and prejudice. He attributes these problems to religion and thinks that the world would be a better place without it. Given recent events in the Middle East and even here in America, it is understandable why he might draw such a conclusion, but the question is: What’s evolution got to do with it?