Archive for August, 2008
Word Art…
This is kinda neat and thanks to Steve Clayton for point me at it.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2008 under Fun.
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At last a definition of accounting I can get my head around…
Another great analog for our times. This applies as much to what we do in our work and advise our clients about in related technologies and networks as this refers to accounting. Doh, why do we count bits as a measure of value!! Left vs Right brainwashing!
“After writing the comments below I realize that not [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2008 under Current Affairs.
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Protect The Human…
A step forward for Humanity and Thinking people everywhere. Just brilliant
Protect the Human enables Amnesty and its supporters to upload video and images, rate and comment, draw attention to information, spread the word on the web and take actions online in defence of human rights. Protect the Human is a visible demonstration of Amnesty in [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Current Affairs.
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The Tension in Collaboration
This is a very interesting topic and highly relevant to us working with clients struggling to make important changes in today’s business chaos. A topic very close to all of us struggling to think this through. A very helpful contribution from our friend Bruce Lewin over at 4 Groups.
Here is a quick introduction and the [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Working Rambles.
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Great Words. Great man…
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins gave the battle group of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish the following pep talk as the US deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq or face action ticked away. Reporters said the men listened in silence to the address at Fort Blair Mayne desert camp, 20 miles from the [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Optimism…
With thanks to John Maloney. I post this as an optimistic assist to the NSF article posted earlier.
These waning years of the first decade of the 21st century marks the 50th anniversary of the Information Age. In 1956 the USA Labor Dept noted the number of white collar or information workers had exceeded the number [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Desk Help…
Posted: August 19th, 2008 under Fun.
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A Short History of Internet Time…
Every now and then I find one of those curios – part time-line, part information graphics and part just a cool thing to know you can put your finger on. Well here is one of those. The National Science Foundation and a very cute little thing all about the Birth of the Internet.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Web/Tech.
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System Crashes and Other Fun
So for many of you who suffered yet another mail from me about this. This just in from Tony Joyce a good friend and counsel on many things. Can you believe this?..
John.
Commiserations on a disk failure I assume. If it is indeed data lost on a laptop disk I can make a recommendation that [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Web/Tech.
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Just A Great Jam
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Posted: August 9th, 2008 under Music.
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