A frankly disappoinging look at words that aren’t in Merriam-Webster Online. Woot is the only one that I have seen in common use (among geeks).
Monthly Archive for May, 2005
An interesting matrix relating tacit vs explicit knowlege to individual or group production of such.Knowledge matrixThe chart comes from a 1999 talk that is available online (how’s that for no link rot!)
Went to see The Consequences of Love, a slightly arthouse Italian film in our slightly arthouse local cinoche. The film was great, except for the unexpectedly overblown ending. The film is beautifully constructed, both in terms of photography but also content – working up very gently through a crescendo, but without ever saying too much. The dark humour in it is very funny – there’s a particularly fine man-runs-into-lampost-while-ogling-girl moment.
Apparently the UK is way ahead in value terms for public sector IT spend at one quarter of EU spend. We’re not top per capita, so this figure isn’t as crazy as it sounds.
Great news – they’re building a giant trebuchet with a 300m range to operate daily in Warwick Castle. Time to plan a visit, I think.
Useful hints on Thinking and Paper to sucessfully run a paper-only task management strategy. Scroll down to see the details.
Excellent idea: Password generator lets you use one master password and then generate related but unbreakable passwords for other sites. Neato.
[Update] there appears to be the mother of all versions available. There’s no reason not to use this (unless you’re on IE, of course).
An astonishing photo essay showing boosters crashing in Kazakhstan. And the people collecting them.Kazakh rocket booster
Lovely shot of part of the Himalayan range from space (from the International Space Station, in fact).forblog/himalaya_iss1_bigMore spectacular than my shots of the mid-West from a plane.newmexico2005/IMG_1083