Feel free to glaze over this one, Why Excel sucks. I admit I’m an Excel nerd, and this may appeal to you if you understand or have experienced the “challenges” of working with dramatically changing reporting needs & multiply source data files. Hope is at hand, if you haven’t already heard of PowerPivot.
Author: neil
Jane Kelsey: Hollywood lays down its own law
Across the world, Hollywod helps create the same magic with legislation as it does with entertainment. The TPP (TransPacific Partnership) is a draft piece of legislation that currently is with the governments of 11 countries, all seemingly beside themselves, happy to oblige the authors of the legislation, with little or no public discussion about it. Here’s a critique by Jane Kelsey, who writes in the NZ Herald News that Hollywood lays down its own law.
Why the United States Is So Afraid of Huawei
Huawei emerged on the telecommunications equipment supplier scene a few years ago, & have thrown a spanner in the works for established players, mostly propped up by the heavy-handed US government, under its open markets policy. The pill is bitter to swallow, now that the roles are reversed, China wields more clout economically, & so the US Congress does what it does best: “release” a report that “warns” that Huawei & ZTE (another Chinese company) pose a “threat to US National Security“. Of course, the report doesn’t cite ANY evidence, but relies on “experts” to say that it is possible.
A moot question then would be to ask if any US companies that have supplied telco equipment to other countries should therefore also be regarded as a national security threat.
True Size of Africa
This infographic will dispel any relative size myths you may have about the True size of Africa.
Democracy, Capitalism, Internet
Scott Adams on Democracy, Capitalism, Internet. Indeed, the idea of “perfect markets” that economists espouse can be applied to democracy as well. The Internet is proving to be a bane in the lives of many a politician, businessman (Australian retailers are a good reference point), etc etc. as much as they are a boon to countless others.
First Solar finds love in India
Clean Energy has a real opportunity to make it as a mainstream application, if only it can gain enough traction, & escape the enormous gravitational forces of Big Oil & Big Energy. First Solar finds love in India is a look at how one company is seeing some encouraging results.
Self-perception Theory
Self-help maniacs (like me) have no dearth of preachers or research that proves one thing one day & another the next. As this article (citing research) points out, I don’t know what the **** I’m doing. More specifically, I don’t know why I do what I do (whatever it is I do!). An entertaining read, nonetheless!
Walking blindfolded
This video tries to explain what happens when you walk blindfolded.
Virtual Haircut
Listen to this with your headphones on. Simply awesome.
This is a bin-aural recording, essentially replicating the way you hear a sound if you were in the place yourself.
The reversal trickle towards in-shoring
General Motors hiring 10000 software engineers, is in the news.
Has the tide turned on out-sourcing? Are more companies realising that while they can keep costs of production low by moving it off-shore, it also hurts domestic demand for their products because their “consumers'” incomes have shrunk?