Japanese politicians are recently complaining about the low self-sufficiency ratio of Japanese agriculture - below 50%. I guess they could learn something from Cuba.

And all that water- and energy-intensive food that the UK and other developed countries consume is a huge burden on the environment. Perhaps the best reason for vegetarianism outside of personal conviction.

But I suppose that is not entirely logical - eating Indian-grown lettuce in London is equally damaging. Local produce and less meat it is then. And more plant pots on the balcony.

Dropbox seemed to be using a lot of CPU, so I looked at it in Activity Monitor.

At least I now know what an exabyte is.

Following the appstore debacle, I can't help but think that most of this is missing the point. Apple should not be vetting what you can potentially do with the program - they should be nothing more than a quality controller.

There are probably literally millions of programs out there for computers, and I don't recall ever seeing a rating '17+' on one of them. And I don't see any such rating in the normal downloads section on the Apple website, where you can download programs that give you access to the Karma Sutra, dictionaries full of swearwords you'll probably have to get your kids to explain to you, and all the porn you could want. In the case of Apple's computers at least, you have parental controls to set who has access to what, and what sites people can access through the web browsers on the computer. I'm sure Windows and other systems have something similar.

The iPhone is just another computer, right? Just give it a parental controls system, and then you just have to vet programs to ensure they don't crash the system, flatten the battery or do anything nasty. I.e., just control quality. If I want to look up 'shit' or 'fuck' or 'egregious', I'll decide that myself.

I must be missing something.

This is a script I wrote some time ago to split images in half - very useful if you have a whole bunch of (legally) scanned pages from a book, and you want to separate out the left and right pages. Save it as a text file, drop it in the folder with the images, and run it from the command line. You'll probably want to set permissions to enable it to run as a script. Also, it is currently set to split the image in half vertically - you should be able to figure out easily enough how to make it split them in half horizontally, or some other proportion.

Very interesting slides of how Netflix views their corporate culture.