If like me you comute into work on a motorcycle and would like to purchase an annual motorcycle parking ticket then this guide may help:
Navigate to: http://www.westminster.gov.uk/cashlessparking/
Click on Manage My Account
Click on My Account and login using your mobile phone number and pin.
Along the orange toolbar click on ‘buy permit’, you can now select to buy an annual parking ticket
Great idea presented to me today – the idea that a company induction site could all quite easily be sat within an instance of wordpress. Wordpress being the blogging tool used by thousands on a daily basis to provide a strong and capable back bone to maintain and publish content. Plus throw in the facility that it provides plugins and static pages and we have a small induction site which can be maintained without an IT person – perfect.
So where’s the downside – well it aint custom so it will look like your actually in a blog, this could if not maintained mean that content doesn’t get ‘posted’ for sometime. Could this mean that the content looks old, and the site looks poor. Possibly but on the flipside the ease of adding content might suggest that any editor responsible for the induction site could add stuff. Of course if there is no sub-editor either process or person then we could end up with a shambles but I’m prepared to guess that this wont be the case.
From a costing point of view its extremely encouraging – wordpress is free and we have the skills to hack the code into various shapes. Add to that that all the really juicy content is stored elsewhere – videos, articles etc and it we have a compelling opportunity to bring something into being without excessive cost of bespoke development.
I’ll update again shortly with pitfalls and successes.
At last something useful for the IPhone – the ability to publish to the blog while at the coffee shop. Fab
Concept:
Since childhood and the days I started receiving a reasonable amount of money each week (e.g. I’d got a job in the local cinema) I’ve had this concept of a throw-away-threshold. This is the amount of money that in a particular period, usually a day I’m prepared to twitter away to a hunch or meaningless indulgence.
At the age of 15 it was set at the amount of £1. Over the years I’ve watched it change and whilst watching a DIY home renovation program yesterday evening where it was clear their threshold had reached £200 I realised that at the grand age of 28 my threshold had reached £10.
I sighed and realised this had made my day, it feels grounding to still have a relatively low value before reasoning must take over from passion to take out my wallet.
According to a report on the BBC Alan Johnson (UK Health Secretary) has likened the current obesity epidemic to climate change. Now I thought this was a great moment to remind myself of some of the great advice I’ve found to keep weight down and yet enjoy my food.
I hope this is useful its easy for such advice to be scorned at. In fact I’m sure you already new most of the items here. The issue is starting doing them today – now!
Charles II appointed the astronomer John Flamsted to the Royal Observatory in 1675 to work on the problem of accurate navigation whilst at sea. For his trouble he was rewarded with the sum of £100 per year. The issue was that the British empire at the time was loosing a high number of ships because they had no means to accurately identify their longitudinal location (how far north or south they were). The Royal Observatory was built for this purpose and used as for astronomical research until the city’s pollution was so great that they could no longer study the night sky.
I really did stumble on to this article and found a instant eureka moment. The explainable and profound need for lesser skilled people (within a particular subject domain) to talk up there knowledge when in the presence of experts was first identified after observation of a range of experiments by Justin Kruger and David Dunning at Cornell Uni. It was latter publish in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 1999.
The phenomenon is known as Dunning-Kruger effect. A number of studies were conducted covering humour, logical reasoning and grammar. The finds suggest that those with less than expert skill when surrounded by experts will exaggerate and overstate their knowledge.
A synical person would probably find it profoundly interesting to conduct this research on a certain president in a certain western country – just to confirm the findings!
Have u ever thought flickr was wonderful for showing off your own pictures but somewhat cluttered for ‘browsing’ around ambling in no particular direction? Well there is a very interesting website at Air Tight Interactive which enables you to type any tag (search term) your interested in and then spiral out to related tags viewing and browsing collections of pictures.
A great resource for a quiet afternoon on the couch
Hi,
This is the launch point for another corner to the world. Here I aim to offer insightful pieces on a variety of general interest topics. The aim in fact is to broaden my knowledge about particular areas as I’ve always felt that general knowledge was something I’ve lacked. In fact not so much I felt as confirmed by the abysmal display of grade ‘D’ in General Studies 10 years ago. Hopefully however in the long gap in between I’ve picked up a few pieces of knowledge which I can share here.
First up will be a small guide on night time city star gazing. I say city star gazing as its a particular skill to see anything at all. Firstly … I’ll stop there and let you wait for the article to appear sometime next weekend.
In addition to general information I do enjoy browsing the web and although am irritated by my abundant lack of self control when it comes to facebook I do occasionally find some interesting material and would hope this is a release valve to highlight the work of others.
That’s all for now I hope I can share more soon
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