Meeting Madness
Kate Carruthers Many times recently I’ve found myself in ‘meeting madness’. Someone somewhere has called a meeting, usually sending invitations via Outlook. The invitation usually has, at best, a one line summary…
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Scrum Rules
List of scrum rules from Control Chaos Scrum : an iterative, incremental process for developing software in chaotic environments. Scrum consists of a series of 30 day sprints, each sprint…
Web 2.0 Coming in for a Hard Landing?
There is increasing comment out on the net that we are heading for another dot bomb disaster – but worse than last time. A good example is this on slashdot.…
Unskilled & Unaware – the Kruger Dunning Model
Just read an article by Justin Kruger and David Dunning (1999) from Cornell University about the way that people who know less about a particular area overestimate their own skills…
Reading – Vindication of the Rights of Women
Needed a break from reading Dante’s Inferno (I can only take so much of hell in one go) so I decided to re-read Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights…
Quotation: Infringement of Human Freedom (Pitt the Younger)
Just came across an apt quotation for our times by William Pitt (the younger) from a speech in the House of Commons (November 18, 1783): “Necessity is the plea for…
Speak LOLcat
At last a way to speak LOLcat more easily – a most excellent LOLcat translator (or in LOLcat: OH HAI AT LAST I FINDZ IT. I CAN TALK FLUENT LOLCAT…
Reading – The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Currently reading Dante’s Inferno in the Everyman edition of the The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso. It is one of those canonical classics that I’ve never bothered to read and…
Current reading: Blink – by Malcolm Gladwell
Currently reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It is a bit scary to think that many of our decisions are made sub-rationally.
LOLcats
I am just obsessed with LOLcats at the moment – they make me laugh. The site is described as “the number one place to find all of your funny cat…