Category: life

Via Global Voices Online a slightly different perspective on Live8. A Kenyan blogger at Thinker’s Room wonders why such a concert should be held and the benefit of it: Meaningless concerts and laughable commissions are not going to fight any poverty. Even dubiously benevolent concessions like debt cancellation are meaningless in themselves. It is utterly […]

As I left NYC this morning, the city had got barricades all down 5th Avenue in preparation for all the viewers for today’s Gay Pride parade (lots of pictures of the event over on Fickr). Yesterday, there was a smaller event, a lesbian march which appeared to be a far more serious affair. Except for […]

The Register has a good piece about getting things done by just getting things done. By ‘Doctor John’, it details working in IT support for foreign language teachers in Inner Mongolia. An well written account of working sonewhere where rules can be broken, if they exist at all,

With the death of the Philipine’s Cardinal Jaime Sin, there has been some interesting comments about his name. The best one I’ve seen is here, but I’m goig to paraphrase it anyway… A certain Irish cleric had obviously had a crisis of faith earlier in his vocation and had had an affair which resulted in […]

Following the farce that was the US Formula 1 at the weekend, where 7 teams withdrew after the warm-up lap over an argument about safety, tires and chicanes, various US *fans* have decided to take legal action against the Formula 1 organisation for the lack of a race. It’s only 2 days after the race […]

The BBC Breakfast show is running a feature that is encouraging people to send photos of this morning’s summer solstice sunrise. I saw some of the photos on TV this morning; there’s a couple more on the website a tthe moment. So where are the rest? Apparently they’ll be up later today – I’m wondering […]

Here I was yesterday asking if it was possible to get a fingerprint control put on the TV remote control, and today I find a study reported in the papers that the remote is responsible for more that 1.5 million arguments a day. I read it in the Metro this morning and after a (ver […]

There’s an article in the Times about a study into the amount of housework men and women do. In comparison with 1961, the time a man has spent has increased from 83 minutes to 146 minutes, whereas women have reduced there time from 303 minutes to 277 minutes. The article focuses on how men are […]

U2 at Twickenham. Great concert, very tight in timing, songs from all the albums. Fun, fun night. The evening started off quite early. I had hospitality tickets from one of the corporate partners, so we started off the day with a three-course meal and plenty of wine. Given the temperature yesterday, I was quite happy […]

Doing some ego-surfing, I see that I’m now number 2 in google rankings for my name. But there are a lot of people out there with the same name. I first came across one of the name-a-alikes when I was about 11 and visiting the hospital; my mother discovered that the wrong notes had been […]

We’re finally getting a good weekend, with temperature’s up above 30.

The waiting finally appears to have come to an end, as the consultation period for the re-organisation at work has finally been completed, a month after the original due date. This means we can now start getting some clarity about whether we have jobs, what sort of job it will be and any other changes. […]

Via numerous newspapers comes this tale of revenge, in a very English, understated way. A city lawyer demanded £4 in payment after one of the office secretarys dropped ketchup on his trousers; he left notes on her desk as well as emailing her. The secretary responded to his email – copying the office as she […]

There’s a letter on the BBC Ceefax service today from Jim complaining (the contibutors often complain – nostalgia always makes things look better) about how Doctor Who is being spoiled because we know what’s going to happen, that we’re being told things about the next series. So where has Jim been? Has he failed to […]

They’re not connected, I just didn’t want to do 2 posts 😉 The first is about BT’s new phone offer, Fusion, which works as a landline via broadband and a mobile via Vodaphone (why not O2, i thought that used to be BT?). I can see the attraction of this, given that I tend not […]

This evening I had plans. I was going to go home earlyish, write up some notes, do some washing..basically not be out, especially after last night when I went to the Marketing Society awards and had a late, good, fun evening. But no, it was not to be. Instead I met up with a couple […]

I know I sometimes look at the piles of clothes I have and think i have nothing to wear, but this escapade is an interesting decision. The interviewer at a job interview left the room and came back naked – with nothing but his clipboard to cover his modesty. His excuse – he wanted to […]

Most of this is direct notes. Cory is talking about the European Broadcast Flag. A comnparison of CD with DVDs. CD have driven value creation, with the music being taken and being used in multiple ways; DVDs – all you can do is watch them, there is no new things that can be done with […]

Another day that is going to be filled with random notes and interpretations from the talks. Another long and busy day is planned.

Notes on “How to do great things with small teams” So you appear to need people passionate and happy, well rounded, quick learner, trustworthy and a good writer, so he’ll take someone who is average and happy instead of brilliant and disgruntled. Small has big advantages: customner is closer, so less formal, less mass, less […]