Tonight, I declare that the home video rental industry is dead
By RickMeasham | June 11, 2011
Tonight, I declare that the home video rental industry is dead.
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A problem shared is a problem halved …
By RickMeasham | March 25, 2011
An experience (of any nature) shared is 2 to the power of that experience multiplied by the number of other people experiencing it.
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Five recent favourite TED videos
By RickMeasham | January 13, 2011
TED is a profound, horizon expanding experience — and I’ve only ever watched the videos. One day I’d love to go to the event. Here’s five of my most recent favorites. There’s no common theme, and there’s no single reason why I liked them. Some of them moved me, others encouraged me or educated me [...]
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FairTrade: Must work both ways
By RickMeasham | December 23, 2010
For a trade to be fair, it has to be fair in both directions. The source producers need to be paid a fair price for the product the produce, but I too need to pay a fair price for the item I’m purchasing.
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Pythagoras: It’s not just a theory
By RickMeasham | December 23, 2010
It’s called Pythagoras Theory because it’s only a theory. Every triangle that it’s ever been tested on works, so there’s no reason to doubt that it will continue to work on every triangle we ever find. But until there’s a way to prove it, it will always be called a theory. If it’s ever proven, it will be called Pythagoras Rule.
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Responsible policy on Bank Interest Rates
By RickMeasham | November 17, 2010
What we must question is that banks are effectively raising the price of a service after it’s been purchased. In no other industry is this legal and it must not be allowed to continue to be legal in the credit industry.
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I listen to Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood on the Stack Overflow Podcast and yell at the radio.
By RickMeasham | September 19, 2009
From comments they’ve made, I’m sure I’m not the only one. Here’s an open letter to them:
Dear Joel and Jeff,
You lauched Server Fault for SysAdmins, but you admit to not knowing that crowd as well as you know the programming crowd. That’s fine. But you need to find someone who does understand that crowd — [...]
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Environmentalists have it wrong — the economies of scale and inventing the future
By RickMeasham | September 10, 2009
There’s a push on to ‘return’ to the idylic times where a man would work the farm chatting to his cows while his lovely wife baked a loaf of bread (probably with a dab of flour on her nose) while a pail of milk (direct from the aforementioned cows) stands on the bench beside her.
There’s a push on to do-it-yourself. To be handy around the garden and home. To plant one’s own vegetables and to bake one’s own bread.
But is that really good for the environment? I doubt it
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Geek Herding
By RickMeasham | August 31, 2009
Forgive me reader, for I have sinned. It’s been some time since I last posted to this site.
I haven’t stopped writing, but instead have been trying to ’seed’ my new site with content. There’s only so many words in my head at any one time! Anyway, it’s now ready to be revealed to the world.
A [...]
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Announcing a release day before you build
By RickMeasham | April 10, 2009
When there’s an idea mooted, a lot needs to be considered before going to market. But if you were to write a detailed spec for everything — including mockups for every screen and functional detail for every action — without discussing the basic concept with every stake holder, you’d often waste a lot of time.
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