Last year a bunch of supposedly famous people kicked the bucket. People were talking about how the world was falling apart (probably in an attempt to block out that they have reached the age where their childhood/teenage idols are in the ready-for-replacement age). Ignoring the one attempt at quantifying this concluded that was largely bollocks, […]
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You’re probably more likely to die from stressing over SARS than from SARS, even if you go licking every coughing person in the face to get all their delicious germs. […]
If hot weather and ice cream sales are correlated (which they are), we cannot conclude that ice cream sale causes hot weather. Or I’ve must found a very tasty way of getting rid of winter depressions […]
Smart meters are fun. Guess when I got a new computer… […]
Keeping track of data is fun. All e-mails I’ve sent/received since 2000 (only really started archiving in 2002/2003. These are only non-spam mails. Sad decline after 2010, but at least it seems 2013 will be better. […]
BI, or boredness-index is the new buzzword. So, how can we measure this very interesting concept? One scientifically sound way is by the number of Facebook posts made a week. Normally, this value is hard to measure, but as I started copying all my Facebook status messages to my own blog last year, I have […]