Monthly Archives: December 2005

a two movie weekend

December 19, 2005 – 11:57 am

I’m not a big moviegoer, but circumstances saw me visit the wonderful Nova Cinema twice this weekend.
First up was “The Constant Gardener“. I’ll admit to not being that keen to see this one. I found the book so sad that I thought it would spoil my enjoyment of the movie. Sure, the movie was sad, [...]

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measuremap : stats made easy

December 7, 2005 – 8:46 am

A couple of weeks back, I got my invitation to join the alpha test of measuremap. This was exciting, because I’d seen Jeff Veen give us a little preview talk about it at we05. It looked very nice then, so I was keen to get into it.
It is the nature of statistics tools that you [...]

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auction stupidity

December 2, 2005 – 2:34 pm

I get a laugh out of online auctions. Lots of people seem to add the words ‘online’ and ‘auction’ together and come up with = bargain! wrong!!
Take this auction (no longer online) by traditional auction house Gray Edsell Timms at GraysOnline. It’s an auction of the hottest electronic toy around – iPods. Current models too, [...]

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