Serious Science: cloaking device
More and more of what was formerly the realm of science fiction is steadily becoming science fact. One notable recent example of real-world Sci-Fi would be cloaking devices, straight out of Star Trek, no less…
Over the coming weeks & months, we’re hoping Serious Science will bring a variety of real-world science topics to life — [...]
MySpace calls Skype for ‘Net telephony, Part 2
While I never imagined myself giving serious writing time to MySpace, here I am, doing exactly that — and for the second time, too. However, even with my incredulity well & truly suspended, the idea of Skype and MySpace teaming up does actually warrant more than a passing glance…
In the first installment, I looked at [...]
The perception of business success
As business people, it’s surprisingly easy to forget the very things that make you money day in, day out. I call this “Organic Knowledge” — you know that you know these things, but you either forget or fail to see the importance of what you know. So the perception is, you know less than you [...]
MySpace calls Skype for ‘Net telephony, Part 1
So what do you get when someone like Skype steps into the mobile telephony fray with a phone of their own, coupled with something like municipal WiFi and a deal with MySpace? No prizes for guessing — you get cheap talk and free calls…
So it’s maybe appropriate that Skype and MySpace have buddied up to [...]
European Union milking the green vote?
Pour milk over cereal and it will find the path of least resistance to the bottom of the bowl. Give politicians a chance to make the public responsible for their toothless efforts to curb big business and their failure to be mindful of their civic and environmental responsibilities and they will find the path of [...]




