Waste management and recycling

It's not really that hard is it? I was just reading this article on the BBC news site and it's disappointing that people just still don't seem to get the message.

We try and recycle as much as possible in our house, and typically we only have to get the grey bin emptied once or twice a year, with an extra collection if a bit of spring-cleaning has hit the house. We manage to recycle nearly everything - Since the green bin started accepting plastic we manage to recycle just about all our packaging, and food waste is composted. It only takes a small change in behaviour to start recycling and once you start and realise how easy it can be then it just snowballs from there.

The Gartner hype cycle graph

There seems to have been a bit of buzz about Gartner's hype cycle graph recently since their article on cloud computing It seems that a lot of people have been having knee-jerk reactions about it over the last year and fail to understand that this graph is just another tool - It needs some kind of judgement exercised to create and interpret it, but I guess all sorts of people just love to get on their hobby horses about their chosen subject(or go on an anti-Gartner rant, as if Gartner should be compelled to ask EVERYONE's opinion...)

Anyway, check it out and see if you agree on where your own areas of interest are going. If nothing else, it provides a bit of stimulus to the thought centres.

Amazon Kindle breaks the price barrier

Well, it looks like Amazon have finally managed to get the price down to an acceptable level for the UK release of the Kindle. I would actually be very tempted to get one now and in fact would have pre-ordered it except that they won't ship outside the UK! OK, you can order it from the international site and pay shipping and import fees but I'm not that desperate (or am I... It wouldn't be that much more than the GBP to EUR conversion). Actually, I think I will order it...