Douglas Coupland’s JPod has some extremely witty - maybe just a tad cynical - observations about work-place culture. His thoughts on meetings are particularly entertaining:
Heres my theory about meetings and life; the three things you cant fake are erections, competence and creativity. Thats why meetings become toxic - they put uncreative people in a [...]
University of Kansas has an excellent online repository system with superb resources, including
Intellectual Property
Suggested text for author addendum to publisihing contracts:
Notwithstanding the above language, I reserve the right to use this work in my teaching and research, for my colleagues at the University of Kansas to use this work in their teaching and research, and [...]
Would quite like to get off the subject of Apple Records for a while, but I suppose I’d be failing in my Apple blogging duties if I didn’t report the appearance of a copy of King Of Fuh on Ebay. No point in blogging the latest bid (currently over £600), but I’ll make a note [...]
Wondered why my otherwise nippy PC was grinding to a halt. Turned out I had this page of the Register open in a background window. Its flashy Flash graphics for mobile phone ads and the like were sucking up over 95% of my CPU. When I quit it, browser CPU dropped to nearly 0. Think [...]
I commented a while back that I’d narrowly missed a chance to see Billy Preston when we were in Nice last year. And now sadly it looks like I won’t be seeing him at all: he died earlier today.
Needless to say the news wires are already filling up with all that “fifth Beatle” stuff. (Just [...]
It passed me by while I was away in New York, but it turns out the battle of the Apples appears to have ended in victory for the candy-colored Californian variety. The verdict surprised enough people, though, that the home-grown beatle-ridden Granny Smith variety is considering a peeling.
Far more entertaining, however, was the tale of [...]
It was nice to read some positive feedback in this week’s London Info (weekly Russian language newspaper) for the Russian audio guide for The Beatles Story exhibition in Liverpool. Finished that in early 2006, so it’s great to think it’s already getting used.
As usual there were many cultural terms that needed careful researching - the [...]
Not like me to have bad thoughts in church, is it? Still, there I was admiring all the paraphernalia of an Orthodox priest at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Manhattan, and I couldn’t help thinking about the way people wear their Ipod shuffles round their necks these days. I suppose I then started drifting [...]
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