Kant And The Bicycle

I was walking along the pavement, and someone was wheeling a bicycle in the opposite direction. I stepped onto the road so that we could pass, and he thanked me.

I wondered if he had applied Kant's test that if everybody rode bikes to work, would things work out okay …

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Archiving Box November 1989

Moving on to the next box. Here was the stuff I had to deal with:

Deep Storage 1

I called it Deep Storage. It is all a bit embarrassing. Those black plastic rings used to be on the end of the cylindrical spotlights that used to be in my bedroom at Deverell Close …

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Belbin

I've just done a Belbin assessment. Six people that I chose had to tick words that they associated with me:

Belbin

Put into the Belbin roles and charted, they look like this:

Chart

Self-Perception

Feedback

Belbin

Belbin Bar Chart

Belbin Bar Chart 2

Belbin

Belbin

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Skip watch

I took this yesterday: Skip I wonder what the rules are about where you're allowed to have skips? Anyone know?

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Good point, I hadn't considered that it might ...

Good point, I hadn't considered that it might be a hoax. I had a look at:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120630105645AAtKYAg

which makes me think it is real.

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You think it is real? I got several of the same em...

You think it is real? I got several of the same emails, but there is no sign this is real at yahoo's site or in the news. Also weird as spam, since they are not asking or offering anything.
Confused

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Yahoo!'s failure to understand the importance of a user's content

Yesterday I received this email from Yahoo!:

Dear User,

Unfortunately, the time has come to say goodbye to Yahoo! Groups Labs Applications (beta) and Groups Chat. We thank all the users that were a part of this program. We intend to use this learning to enhance Yahoo! Groups further with …

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Skip

There's a skip permanently placed near my house.

Skip

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Archiving...

After Bill's comment, I'm making great efforts to get the orientation of the photos right.

Now, I think I made this bag in primary school. In it I kept IOUs from people to whom I had lent money. The one in the bottom right hand corner is an IOU from …

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TomTom vs. Open Streetmap

On my way home from breakfast at Green Park Brasserie I saw this TomTom van mapping the area. Presumably like Google streetview.

TomTom

That reminded me of TomTom's recent attack on Open Source mapping, which was brilliantly debunked by Richard Fairhurst.

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