My household is going on vacation! As I exit my current job I’ll be drawing down all my remaining vacation, so it only seemed polite to share it with the rest of the family. We have a preference for city vacations. Shopping around for air fair we discovered we could fly to Seatle for around [...]
Bloom on our Bragmansia: These blooms are about ten inches in length. I assume these are some kind of tropical weed; the certainly grow like a weed, fast. Blooms on plants that haven’t undergone lots of manipulation by human breeders are typically shaped to fit exactly the creature that pollenates them. It’s a little sobering [...]
Feature comparison charts showing N competing product offerings vs. M features are called column fodder in the sales and marketing liturature. Sales men like to offer them up to their customers in the hope that the customer will then turn around and use them to show his purchasing department that he carefully weighted the alternatives and [...]
My love affair with Textually.org continues: In a court case which has fascinated Sweden with its intoxicating mix of sex, death and the workings of an obscure religious sect, a Swedish pastor has been jailed for life for faking text messages from God to get his nanny-lover to murder his wife and try to kill [...]
Conventional wisdom holds that standardization is a means to create increased competition. This is not always the case. Conventional wisdom holds that deregulation is a means to increase competition. This is not always the case. Regulation and lack of standards are two ways that can frustrate the consolidation of small firms in an industry into [...]
This is a very nice appeal by Duncan Watts to not forget that central control and hierarchy is not the best way of solving organization problems. His desire it to temper the drive toward a centralized solution to the problem of “intelligence failure.” I’m glad he wrote it because if there’s one thing that’s rarely [...]
Quicksilver! Thanks Ted. Twice actually . Provides amazingly quick keystroke access to most everything under Mac OS X. Spread the addiction.
With luck I have now switched my blog from Movable Type to WordPress. I had taken a run at this some time ago and then decided that if I waited I could freeload on the work of others who would be making the transition easier, but a few months passed and it’s just as hard. [...]
Brad DeLong informs us that: “Paradise” is derived from the Old Persian word for the wall around an enclosed, irrigated garden. Xenophon mistook the word for the enclosing wall for the word for the garden-park itself, and here we are. I don’t see that explicitly in the OED; but it’s too delightful. Oh, and I [...]
To the untravelled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and delights. Things new are too important to be neglected, and mind, which is a mere reflection of sensory impressions, succumbs to the flood of objects. Thus lovers are forgotten, sorrows laid [...]
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