by jolyonpatten on December 17, 2008
Apologies in advance for the painful obviousity factor (POF) of this (probably about 87 on the POF/Richter scale), but it was new to me even though I’ve used MS Word for aeons.
I’m working on a couple of docs that have got to about the zillionth revision stage now, and wanted to print off the latest [...]
by jolyonpatten on November 12, 2008
Well the new FT front page is much better than the old, easier to read, less corrupted by ads, better laid out.Be nice if they would transfer the look to all other pages, too. I should have thought it would be simple enough to redo the CSS sheets for the whole lot, and not just [...]
by jolyonpatten on October 18, 2008
ReRisk now with added Twitter — see Rapido News items in the side bar over there —>
by jolyonpatten on October 16, 2008
Amidst all the doom and gloom, the early trains into the City packed with office workers keen to be seen to be keen, the belt-tightening, expense-cutting, travel-slashing and so forth, it’s occasionally worth remembering that there are different perspectives.
Here’s Steve Jobs on how Apple chose to get through the last downturn:
We’ve had one of these [...]
by jolyonpatten on September 14, 2008
I’m honoured. Lexis Nexis have chosen Re Risk as one of the Top 50 insurance law-related blogs in the whole world. I’m willing to bet there are only 37 in total, so being in the Top 50 is great.
Here’s how they describe us:
Features provocative insight on risk, re-/insurance and future thinking with a [...]
by jolyonpatten on August 14, 2008
[Lo-grade tech stuff follows. Pull ripcord now if it's not your thing].
I’ve had a thorny problem to deal with today, involving a case in the Philippines, where I had two strands of information: the first was what a party had said (over time) had happened; the second was what had actually happened, as ex [...]
by jolyonpatten on August 24, 2007
I don’t know how many of you are fans of Google Earth (I love it, especially as it now does star maps, too), but it now seems to be creeping into mainstream corporate use. Allianz are now using it as a risk management tool to estimate exposures in, for example, the case of a [...]
by jolyonpatten on July 6, 2007
Interesting article from the Long Now foundation (disclosure: I’m a charter member) about the the increase in range of things that can be bet on as risk measurement becomes more precise. They refer back to the Allianz-led cat bond on floods hitting London as a prime (and new) example of such risks and then [...]
by jolyonpatten on July 5, 2007
How often one hears of things a little too late. I should like to have gone to Complex07, the large Aus/East Asian conference on complex systems.
This was the bit that caught my eye in the Sydney Morning Herald review:
Alexander Wearing from the school of behavioural science at the University of Melbourne has [...]
by jolyonpatten on March 2, 2007
Trawling some files the other day, I realized that I had not posted a copy of my talk on “Bad Software” since it was expunged, with all other records, from iNews. So here it is in original Keynote format, and in pdf format.
Aproveches.