Posted in Uncategorized, tagged data visualisation, ted on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hans Rosling (blog), Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Gapminder Foundation, using data visualisation to explain poverty, health and economic development.
Swine Flu and Tuberculosis vs the news media
And two talks from TED. The first on HIV
And the second exposing preconceptions about the “developing world”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged linux, netbook, ubuntu, unr on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Put Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the AspireOne. Amazingly good.
The Windows XP installation on this machine was crumbling. Suspend/hibernate didn’t work. There would be no fixing that without re-installing Windows. Even when it was working properly, the XP user-interface was kind of awkward on the small keyboard and trackpad. This seemed like a good opportunity to [...]
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