Demian’s Blog

I found this still life I did in 2001, I was playing around with mixing 3d graphics and traditional still life elements.

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We all know this to be true; researchers at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University have done an interesting study.
“According to our research, power and influence can cause a severe disconnect between public judgment and private behavior, and as a result, the powerful are stricter in their judgment of others while being more [...]

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Not all news sites allow readers to leave comments on the articles, thank goodness the FT does.  A recent article published attacking Google is a case in point of the comments, in particular the comment made by Barry Kelly, being more considered, informed and sensible than the original article itself.
I’m quite surprised the FT is [...]

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Made an important discovery this afternoon – I guess I already knew this but it became really obvious again.  I think it’s better to run without music or, in my case, spoken podcasts, because it stops you from concentrating on decent running technique.
My footfalls were getting quite heavy and my knees let me know they [...]

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Van spam

Originally uploaded by demianturner

This van struck me as a spammy web page jumped straight out of the browser, onto my street!

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Here are a couple of videos that give insight into how one culture’s values can be immensely different from another’s, even if separated by only a few kilometres.

and this one, Islamic religious experts on female circumcision, they don’t allow embedding so go see it on Youtube before they take it down
UPDATE: Here’s a very [...]

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I was quite impressed with the following passage Aldona read me from The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma.  For anyone into improving their productivity this might be interesting.  Here’s how he organises a typical day:

up at 5am fives times a week with naps on the weekends
a 60 minute “holy hour” once I’m [...]

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I always knew my cat, Klopsik, was a pretty smart fella but the above instant messenger conversation he conducted with Dmitri proves the point.  True that any cat could paw out a fairly random conversation on the keyboard, but notice how Klopsik selected precisely + and . characters.  Moreover there is evidence of his sense [...]

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Just got some great running advice from Paul Medcraft, a friend of mine from when we worked at iii.  I’ve been quite interesting in optimising my running as recently the knees, in particular my right one, have started complaining.  ”Snap, crackle, pop” they say, quite annoying.  I also went out and bought probably some of [...]

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Thanks to Ed for spotting this – what tube station is that?

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