“REDMOND, WASHINGTON The Borowitz Report—Bill Gates’s first day at work in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade.”
Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows 8.1 : The New Yorker.
The best and worse of Facebook in a single page.
Great video, really well done. Can’t share outside of Facebook!
The future is here. Shot on a phone and edited in a week. Seen by millions.
“His greatest joy was to know that inside that building, up the steps from the main concourse, on the right, was a hall that in 2004 was named after him. It is a wide, low, bare space with huge easterly windows, floored in pale timber and with a ceiling of folded concrete beams that seem to hover lightly, bathed in reflections from the sea. The Utzon Room is exactly what he dreamed of; and it is also the only room yet built exactly to his plans.”
I’m a great fan of the theory of 10,000 hours makes an expert.
Here’s a lovely way of saying the same thing.
I’d say that this is a fairly good assessment of the show. An hour of brain-deadness once a week.
“Modern life for adults is, after all, bloody hard. The workplace is not freer, but more regimented by management systems and nonsense enforced by going on ‘courses’. Email hasn’t decreased the workload but in fact piled it on. The demand to be accountable and produce results hangs heavy over every worker, and by the weekend they need a release valve. That’s where we come in – an hour a week where three badly dressed middle-aged men bicker, fall over and catch fire. An hour a week where absolutely nothing is achieved, but the path to nine-year-old escapism is briefly lit up.”
