Month: February 2005
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Accountability and maintenance
Weak systems for evaluating performance, conducting training, and measuring success breed unaccountable people. Weak systems for maintenance of facilities and infrastructure breed undisciplined people. People accustomed to low accountability and low discipline react poorly when they are suddenly exposed to the expectation for either. Computing technology imposes the expectation for accountability and discipline because it…
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What Avista could do…
What could Avista do, today, to shape the day after tomorrow? Of course, they won’t do that, any of it, but they could. Fortune favors the bold, but boring companies make money in spite of being boring… right up to the point where they don’t.
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this is what I’m talking about
if you are going to be a dot.com refugee, then you’d damn well better have learned something important – otherwise you are just a fuck-up. This is something important.
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Predator and Prey
Rick Jelliffe has a post over on O’Reilly about the idea that our brains are wired to be both predator and prey – and that there is an oscillation between the two. His extension is to ponder the applicability of that as a design pattern, which seems like a good idea. It would make a…
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speech & community under the radar?
This post on Line of Site about how the podcasting medium is so far ahead of curve and is by its very nature, a domain of unenforceability with respect to content and language (decency). Pretty interesting. It makes me wonder about the difference between ideas of society based (knowingly or not) on Rousseau and his…
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drowning in information
Most software is a waste of my time. I need software that doesn’t make me fork my attention away from the consumption of information in order to learn how to use the bells and whistles. What I need are tools that support methods that work. I need accuracy, rapidity, quality, and flexibility in my software…
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Is the IT office filled with morons?
So Slashdot is running this article about some lifelong Mac user who is ranting about the Windows operating system’s proclivities to accept malicious mobile code and sphere. This study was released recently claiming that the U. S. Economy loses $ annually in employee productivity to SPAM. Come on. First off, I’m not a huge fan…
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What I Believe…
What I believe, part I (government): What I believe, part II (capitalism): What I believe, part III (natural science): What I believe, part IV (philosophy & theology):
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One Thing
There was a scene in last nights episode of House, Fox’s prime time drama about a crotchety doctor who works on ‘tough’ cases, that was really well done, but not particularly happy for me to watch. The tough case is a jazz trumpeter who has been paralyzed for months below the waist, and who suffers…
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State of the Union
Well, it looks as though the President has learned to deliver a speech. I still doubt the validity of a Social Security crisis, and tend to believe the arguments of those not pressing for the privatization of Social Security. I’m not sure how I feel about the section on African-American empowerment… it feels like ‘help…