Month: December 2004
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one third of the secret of life
There isn’t anything that I want to do, as work, for someone else that I can’t do as my own boss. (I guess – prove me wrong here) I should be able to do what I want. I want to be respected, to have a voice, to have a place where I have a degree…
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stuff, clutter, and Martha Stewart
Stuff: all the undefined, unnecessary flotsam of our lives that collects in the eddies of our existence. Clutter: said gatherings of flotsam in the eddies. Martha Stewart: a person who has merged OCD and too much time in the craft tent at summer camp into a multi-billion dollar empire dependent upon stuff and clutter. We…
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pace & idleness
The pace of change, the rapidity of a generational adaptation to the effects of change, these are the measures of progress or conservation. These are the markers by which we judge the fitness of a people. Adaptability and the willingness to adapt is, in a dynamic cosmos, the hallmark of civilization while, in contrast, the…
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Spokane in the Paint Factory
In the November, 2004 Harper’s Magazine, writer Mark Slouka writes on the virtues of idleness in his article “Quitting the Paint Factory”. His aim, perhaps, was simply to enunciate his dissatisfaction with the Mr. Bush in the shadow of the November election but his essay has struck a chord that reverberates across many diverse categories…
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Treasure Island
ok, so over on Slashdot there is this story about someone dropping $26K and change for a “Treasure Island” in some MMORPG. Ok, so is this cool? I’m not sure, but here is an idea that if I were the developer of one of these MMORPGs: sell one-of-a-kind items on both e-bay and in-game, so…
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boundaries & categories
Let’s say there are two basic categories of IT in the world – Enterprise IT (EIT) and Consumer IT (CIT). Let’s also say that the size of each of these categories is so large in relation to the rest of the possibilities that they fall into the boundary between EIT and CIT – inside the…
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An idea for distributed project management
Premise: The tools are already out there. The tools for project management are, in large part, already developed and deployed. I say this for two reasons – 1) project management is more art than science and, as such, there is a broad and fuzzy domain in which “Project Management” happens; 2) the suites and monolithic…
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urban fitness
I saw someone running inside a parking garage the other day. They were running for fitness, and the garage was very large and it occurred to me that it would be both easy and cool to paint ‘trails’ on the floor of the garage, post the distances for the trails, and then you could have…
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the right tools for the job…
There is nothing worse than trying to hammer nails with the butt end of a screwdriver or jam the corner of the standard screwdriver bit into the Phillips screw slot. Having the right tool makes working on something so much more enjoyable. Technology is all about using tools, but it’s also about creating the tools…
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loneliness
you can sit in the middle of the stream and have all the water rushing past you, so to speak, but if you aren’t the destination, it just keeps on flowing by… so, as I sit here I have 773 unread RSS fed articles on my aggregator, and 162 unread messages in my email client…