Passing on a request from a couple of researchers trying to collect a comprehensive list of Excel versions and regional settings (things like decimal separators, types of brackets, etc.). If you have a couple of minutes spare and use Excel, head over to their site and download their workbook (the link is a bit awkward [...]
If there’s one single site on the internet that I couldn’t live without (perhaps with the exception of Google), it would be StackOverflow from StackExchange. It’s an absolute life-saver for programmers, and as a fairly recent convert to programming, I struggle to think what it must have been like in the days before it existed. [...]
Keep your eyes peeled for the next gripping instalment of Zero Carbon Britain: zerocarbonbritain2030. Press release. The report has been produced over the past year or so with input from various consultants and other industry experts and promises to show us “how we can transform the UK into an efficient, clean, prosperous zero carbon society.” zerocarbonbritain2030 [...]
What is the value of re-use, of refurbishment? And what about how we re-use or re-furbish? I touched on this with the Refurbish or Replace post the other day and a piece today from the D&AD Blog has brought it back to mind. Caulder feels this project demonstrates the role design has to play in the [...]
Not seeing, how shall he know What lies in the hand Of time to come?” Sophocles Wow. It’s coming true. Back when I was studying for my MSc at CAT, I wrote an essay about the precautionary principle. This is the principle which states that when someone proposes a new technology or a new chemical compound, [...]
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