Live in Watford. Work in London. These are my thoughts.

What I’ve been reading online recently

Philip Gamble on: Philip Gamble, Random Thunks @ 12:14 pm January 8, 2012

What the Internet taught me: Nuclear War, .co.ck, Horseball

Philip Gamble on: Philip Gamble, Random Thunks @ 9:54 pm November 18, 2011

Albert Einstein

 

A great quote on this doomsday subject too -

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

- Albert Einstein

 

Random Thunks

Philip Gamble on: Philip Gamble, Random Thunks @ 11:29 am September 17, 2011

Wunderlist is a very nice task management tool. Very simple, quick to use, cross platform and totally free.

Watched Something about Mary and the first Naked Gun Film for the first time in ages this week, still find new funny things each time I watch them!

Eric Schmidt on lack of Computer Science in schools. So true.

Learnt what Payola is (secret payments to media so that they broadcast certain music).

You can (try to) rent out your home for thousands during the Olympics.

Things I learnt this week

Philip Gamble on: Random Thunks @ 9:45 am September 4, 2011

Chris Froome, currently second in the Vuelta a España, became the champion of Kenya because he made the jersey.

Good piece in the Daily Mail about more migrant workers applying for lower skilled jobs than British citizens.

Stephen Fry’s top 100 gadgets.

Yet another report of Computer Science graduates having poor employment prospects.

People who buy and don’t deny buying Linkedin recommendations don’t want you or anyone else to know that they have done so.  That I can’t be bothered to deal with this/these <opinion>condescending twat(s)</opinion>. Chilling Effect.

Things I learnt this week: Libya, Sahrawi, Canberra, Waterloo Road, Botswana

Philip Gamble on: Random Thunks @ 10:46 am August 28, 2011

Is firing a gun into the air dangerous? The nagging question that we all wanted to know thousands of away from Libya.

Where the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is.

Mark Webber is the Canberra Milk Kid (via F1Racing magazine)

Botswana is a lot richer than I thought (via World’s Strictest Parents)

22 out of every 100 new domains run WordPress. And so they should, quick to set up, easy to use, and a load of templates and plugins available to customise your site.

An upcoming “social issue of the week” on Waterloo Road will have to be how to cope with your school jumping 200 miles along the M62, M60, M61, M6, M74 and M8 as the school moves from Rochdale to Glasgow. Imagine that pretty much means the pupils will all change as well.

It is possible to change a camera’s focus after the photo has been taken.

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