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Oil Consequences

I know a couple of people who are on the pess­im­istic side of the Peak oil hypo­thesis, and a couple who are equally fer­vent in their optim­istic belief (the idea being that we’ll always find more and/or tech­no­logy will save the day). As is my wont, I’m some­where in the middle, think­ing we’re likely to […]

2011 04 28 Comments (1)

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 […]

2010 08 27 Comments (1)

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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2010 07 24 Comments (2)

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 […]

2010 01 05 Project Management Comments (0)

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 […]

2009 05 27 Comments (1)

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 years […]

2009 02 10 Comments (2)