Spaced Out :: 2014

The new JISC-OS Licence Agreement is out and, in terms of summary, one of the great bits of news from my perspective is the licencing of OS Terrain 5, a new product I blogged about earlier. Should be available in the Digimap store forthwith!

Totally crazy…. it beat the Ferrari!!

Fun article by Tara Brabazon - and if you haven’t seen her speak then she’s great value - well worth pondering upon for all potential and future PhD students, although don’t necessarily take everything to heart as people and subjects vary across the academic world. Good advice though!

A nice gift guide selection of cartography books from Jonathan Crowe…..

These did the rounds quite a while back from the looks of things, but Bill Gates’ 11 rules of life are still pretty pertinent:

1.Life is not fair; get used to it.
2. The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
3. You will not make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both
4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
6. If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
7. Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try “delousing” the closet in your own room.
8. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
9. Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
10. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.