I have already watched this twice. For me, watching something *once* is rare. If you like coffee, if you are interested in learning interesting things about coffee, then this is the 1 hour video to watch. The cool thing is that it has a detailed breakdown of the topics covered so you can skip through to what you like. My…
Month: June 2014
Why the Past Stays in the Past
Once in a while… just once in a while, I get a forwarded email that I read all the way through. 98% of the time this happens it’s because it’s funny. The other 2% are probably educational to some level. This one was so emotion-stirring that I felt I needed to actually give it an online shout-out. Since no one…
Realtors Who Use Gmail are In Breach of Their Fiduciary Duty to Clients
It’s time to call a spade a spade. The Real Estate Council of BC talks about the responsibility of real estate agents here. Scanning down the page there is a section dedicated to ‘fiduciary duty’. This term sound big but it’s pretty simple. Lawyers have it, too. They have to look out for the best interests of their clients and…
Typoglycemia and Speed Reading
Today I was thinking about the mind and how typos can be easily read and understood by people of the same mother tongue. I finally found the example by searching the keywords ‘ESL, typos, understand, native,”. Here is a good summary of what’s up with typoglycemia What jumped out at me was the explanation of why ‘they’ think it happens.…
Apple: Always the Ubuntu Wannabe
Today after reading an article about how the fruit company plans to introduce continuity as an innovation, I just chuckled to myself. Again, the fruit folks are sitting there watching all the innovation going on in Ubuntu and scrambling to try to take the ideas, recode them on their own locked down proprietary systems, and implement them for profit. As…