Iris

Iris. 26. London. Artist, thinker & time waster. This blog contains everything and nothing. More nothing than something because more often than not I am afraid of sharing or doing.

Connecting or networking a PC running Windows 7 Home Premium to a Mac running OS 10.4 (Tiger)

I recently upgraded from XP to Win7 and since I got everything working it’s been great. However, I had the hardest time connecting to my husband’s Mac (the files on which we both use for work). On XP it was relatively easy to network the two and Win7 promised it would be even easier, [...]

Free Books!

We’re moving house soon so I’m getting rid of a few books and they are looking for a new home!

If you would like one (or two, or all) please let me know in the comments or email me rrreow[@]gmail.com You’ll have to be comfortable with giving me your address, I promise I [...]

Procrastination Across The Nation

Someone kick me and make me update already! I’ve been toying with the idea of updating my blog for about a month but I keep putting it off. So voila, an impromptu update with no topic or meaningful content whatsoever!

I just bought a Nintendo DS Lite off ebay, so I’m pretty excited [...]

Interesting Article About Decision Making

Decision Time. This article published on the BBC News site today is pretty interesting. It is about emotion vs rationality in decision making.

Things that especially resonate with me are:

As Kahneman and Tversky put it: “In human decision-making, losses loom larger than gains.”

Loss aversion is now recognised as an important [...]

A Story About Boobs

Let me share with you a story of our highly sophisticated sense of humour. Last night, Andrew and I were in a rather silly mood. This resulted in us going back and forth saying film and TV show titles but replacing one word with ‘boobs’.

I present you with some of the more [...]

Lunchtime babble (and lunch)

I’d just like to share with you this little bit of awesomeness. It is… our breadmaker! Best.kitchen.gadget.ever. Also, if you’re on a budget like us it provides a very cheap alternative to buying bread or prepackaged sandwiches. It tastes great too! The bread, that is, not the breadmaker.

This is just [...]

Snow!

The heaviest snowfall in 18 years apparently! It’s awesome, as even though it usually snows every year, snow in central London tends to melt within hours, but it’s STAYING!

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Amazing & Inspiring

This girl, I want to learn from her and be as amazingly creative & dedicated!

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