Buy a real robot, $1600
In a joint venture between Softconn, Alibaba and Foxconn, you will soon be able to buy a humanoid robot like Peppa, shown below,…
Category: Science & Tech
Cloud storage for teams
As part of my move into a new team at work, I was tasked with looking at different cloud based storage solutions for groups.…
New site – merging
WordPress is the #1 blogging platform in the world. Over the years, I have had a number of wordpress.com blogs, which are free,…
Are you compos mentis?
I started this post after spending a little time thinking about the title of this post, about what the words really mean. So….are…
The (Evolutionary) Great Leap Forward
Around 40,000 years ago something changed. Something fundamental, something that defined us as a species. We started to make tools, multi purpose stone…
Consciousness and unlearned knowledge
In this recent article in Scientific American, a theory is postulated that innate knowledge could be passed down in some way through the…
Look and see
When you take hold of a pound coin, or any coin, what do you see? This is speculative question, the object could be…
Beta testing
My app has gone into beta testing with the team. Wooohooo! Yet, I must confess, I feel a little trepidation. Beta testing…
Dark matters
This is a bit weird. A few days ago, I drove to my local hospital for an MRI scan. I listened to a…
Get real
I considered several different themes for today’s entry. Perhaps something relevant to the time of year like “Remember, Remember the 5th of November”…
Be Remarkable
I am gradually becoming a fan of TED. TED is all about “ideas worth spreading” to use their own tagline. Free videos…
Sometimes SharePoint smokes….
or sometimes I wish it would, in a nice little funeral pyre, dowsed in petrol! That I can light a cigarette from! Ok,…