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Busy, Busy

Like many people I know, the dichotomy between doing and blogging is often resolved by more doing, and not so much blogging, especially with Twitter, Identi.ca, et al around for the quick asides. Time to craft a careful post is in short supply, especially sufficient time to craft a post that looks effortless. But today [...]

Amazon Spam

Sometimes spam is amusing. Email address and actual links elided, but the rest is as it arrived in my inbox: Thanks for your order, my email address Did you know you can view and edit your orders online, 24 hours a day? Visit Your Account. Order Information: E-mail Address: my email address Order Grand Total: [...]

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Meeting Productivity

Some months ago, Time magazine published an article called Why the Office Oddball Is Good for Business, about how really productive meetings need someone in them to stop too much consensus too early. The article starts Want to get the most out of your next brainstorming session at work? Bring in an oddball. If you [...]

It’s Been a Long Time

Since I posted anything, I mean. Which doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing things, just that I’ve spent more time thinking and doing and talking than writing and describing. The garden is looking better after the relative neglect of the past couple of years, although there’s lots more to do, as always (the weeds have [...]

Victorian Bushfires

Australians learned so much from the Ash Wednesday bushfires (I was living in Melbourne at the time and still visit as often as I can); there was a sense that although everyone knew bushfires are capricious and dangerous, that there were things to do to mitigate them. That all changed this week. The combination of [...]

Projects and Resumes

Now is a good time to update my resume (cv), and I’m having a little difficulty in figuring out the best way to present it. The classic “say what you did for the employer” tends to assume that your involvement in projects is bounded by your employment, but that’s not always the case. For example, [...]