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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 of what the meeting is about. No agenda is set and nor are requests made explicit
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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 producing an executable. Between sprints, all interested parties evaluate progress and reevaluate technical and business requirements. Work is reestablished and the
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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. The question is how resilient is the industry now, has it improved since last time? Perhaps the answer is the same
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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 and knowldge. Interesting also that further training helped people to perceive their limitations. As Kruger and Dunning note in their
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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 of Woman. It is very easy for us women in the western world to forget
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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 every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." Pitt
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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 NAO.) http://speaklolcat.com/
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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 is a fascinating journey through the circles of hell replete with rich language and classical allusions.
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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.
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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 macros, memes and all round lolcats in one place on the web". It really does have great lolcats (it&
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Chris Brogan has been experimenting with a new social network called 'grasshoppers' - people helping people. He has created it in two places: Ning and Facebook (although it did seem to migrate through Google groups quite quickly on the way to Ning). It will be interesting to see which
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the 5 top websites to avoid (according to Time) are: * eHarmony.com * eVite.com * Meez.com * MySpace.com * SecondLife.com Agree with them regarding Myspace & SecondLife, but eVite just looks like it needs a refresh! Meez is still kind of fun though.