Monthly Archives: January 2013
Can Ideas Rot? [Lifehacker]
Can Ideas Rot? [Lifehacker] “I have a new rule that I’m making for myself and holding others to: If you haven’t worked on something in the past two weeks, you’re not allowed to talk about it.” Steve Corona makes this bold statement at the beginning of his post on Lifehacker. I guess I’ve been trying to respond […]
10 Reasons Why Documents and Spreadsheets Are Killing Your Career
10 Reasons Why Documents and Spreadsheets Are Killing Your Career This whitepaper, “10 Reasons Why Documents and Spreadsheets Are Killing Your Career”, lists a number of compelling reasons why these artifacts are bogging down the BA. I’m not sure their product is the answer to all the issues but it does a fair job of addressing a […]
Racist Chanting At A Professional Soccer Player Causes Something Awesome To Happen
Racist Chanting At A Professional Soccer Player Causes Something Awesome To Happen. It’s nice see the players take a stand on something that is rampant in the sport. People have to stop making excuses for bigots no matter where they are.
Jumping Through Hoops To Achieve Piety (CBC Ideas – The Myth of the Secular, Part 3)
I listen to quite a few podcasts during my daily commute to and from work by train. One of my favourites is CBC Ideas. I’m a bit behind but this week I listened to The Myth of the Secular, Part 3. It’s part of a series exploring the need to rethink secularism: “Western social theory once […]
Google Now And Google Translate Praise The iPad
Now this is an odd bug! I wonder where in the code you have go wrong in order for this to happen?
A Quick Thought…
We will need to see how this evolves over time but I wanted to set up a new home for posting longer format thoughts. I was on live journal (Mr. Weasel’s Live Journal Blog) but they seem to be having a lot of Denial of Service issues related to their ownership by a Russian company […]
