links, random thoughts, various opinions
25 Years In A Cell
“The second distortion caused by conventional spreadsheets is more subtle. It’s described in a 1980s paper, written by university researcher Jeffrey Kottemann and others concerning what they called “Performance, Beliefs, and the Illusion of Control.” The paper described an experiment in which subjects were asked to perform a planning task using […]
Google News is a great site that summarizes what is making headlines. The News Map is a flash rendering in real time of the same page, except the colour and ranking of stories is based on volume and priority. It takes some getting used to but it’s a fascinating study of how to […]
Thomas L. Friedman: Awaking to a Dream. I am so hungry for a positive surprise. I am so hungry to hear a politician, a statesman, a business leader surprise me in a good way. It has been so long. It’s been over 10 years since Yitzhak Rabin thrust out his hand to Yasir Arafat on […]
So very tired, 3 flights to get home…ugh. Lots more to do now of course.
Derek has a post about illiteracy. When I’m traveling I find it almost exhausting being around newspapers, magazines and signs that are simply icomprehensible to me…so frustrating…of course I guess I could learn to speak and read more languages.
Bergen on a Sunday morning is a quiet restful place. The hotel I’m at is built out over the water and it was completely calm and peaceful as I wandered around the city desperately looking for coffee. No luck (I think they don’t open till much later on Sunday). I did find […]
“Hi,” he said, “my name is Dave Neeleman, and I’m the CEO of JetBlue. I’m here to serve you this evening, and I’m looking forward to meeting each of you before we land.”
“Among the many hazards of business success is this one: The bigger your company gets, the less contact you have with some of […]
Staying at the Hotel Admiral on the Bergen waterfront, nice place with fast Telenor WiFi. (no engish on their site though). Had a productive couple of days in Oslo and now figuring out whether to head down to London or back home sooner.
Photos of the hulls of freighters that bring raw sugar into Canada.
I’m in London waiting for my connecting flight to Oslo. Off for a relatively short eight day trip (3 cities). I’m looking forward to being in Bergen for the weekend, it’s been awhile. Will try and post some more…now to sleep in the crowded lounge (and hopefully not miss my flight in […]
I saw Fog Of War tonight at Tinseltown. This is remarkable filmmaking, a totally compelling movie.
Will I recognize the place I arrive at? I hope I have the courage to look back.
Ho-hum: Another day, another alleged criminal conspiracy involving the Prime Minister…
“Canadians, I think, are awakening to how profoundly corrupt our political system has become. We were so accustomed to it, we barely noticed any more. But the evidence is accumulating, and it is inescapable”
Dowbrigade:
“He seemed an unlikely Presidential candidate for an increasingly internationalized South Korea; he had no administrative experience to speak of, had rarely traveled outside Korea, and spoke almost no English. He was however, the first candidate. and now the first world leader, who understands how to write html.” [Scripting News]
The Curse of the Hundred Bagger
“That’s because every startup — EVERY STARTUP — faces a crisis early-on and changes dramatically what it intends to do.”
Should I Just Give You The Company?
“I love reviewing standard form contracts from vendors and service providers because they can exbihit sublime creativity in favouring the provider over the buyer, often completely out of whack with the commercial realities of the deal. This one-sided drafting approach must be somewhat successful because I suspect (actually, I […]
Responding With Substance
“Say nothing. Deny the problem. Don’t answer questions. Deny responsibility. Minimize (or even better, trivialize) the issue.”
Subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale.
Shocking Way to Transform Waste
“Penn State researchers say they’ve made a fuel cell that eats waste to produce electricity, potentially making water treatment a self-sustaining technology. By David Snow.” [Wired News]
Festering in my head
“The secret of successful weblogging is - it seems - never to pause for a moment. Never let the fact that you’re kind of not in the mood for a few days to stop you putting some old crap up on your site. Because the longer you leave it, the more pressure […]