There’s more than one way to skin a cat, or so they say. Similarly, perhaps, there are many ways to successfully lead a development team, small or large. Having done the former in various capacities I’ve learnt a lot about people, myself included, and there’s one conclusion I can’t ignore: it’s a fickle business. Books [...]
Some initial thoughts halfway through my most anticipated sequel this year…
The story’s poor. What am I doing really? You find this guy, now this guy, oh here’s something different: find this place! Whilst you’re doing that random people will pop up like something out of Time Crisis 2 and try and kill you. Oh and [...]
I reckon most of us have our little sayings. “I don’t believe it!” and the like. I have a few. Some ripped off from friends or family — such as “you are” in reply to anything, or “you’re an X” where X is the object of conversation — others I’ve created myself. My latest beauty, [...]
That’s it citizen, keep an eye on your neighbour citizen. Tell us citizen, and we’ll look after you.
Says our friends over at the British Transport Police. Apparently they want everyone in the country to be a boiling pot of paranoia and distrust. They’re festering a nation of narrow-eyed minions hell-bent on getting one over [...]
December 20, 2008 – 11:24
To me we’re worse off; now their actions are out of the mainstream view and we’re subject to investigation and monitoring devoid of any real pro-active control. We’re now at the complete mercy of the ISPs.
I don’t want to be filtered or have my communications monitored and subjected to the scrutiny of a private company [...]
This excellent phrase was coined by Lawrence “Larry” Bossidy, the retired CEO of Allied Signal. What I find particularly interesting about this quote is that it’s so eloquently structured and an example of what it’s stating; the statement is simple yet intelligent. Here it is in all its wonderful, quoted glory:
“Complexity has nothing to do [...]
I’m a long time user, advocate and all-round fan of Linux. In particular, I’ve used Debian or variant distributions and have never had any major issues (well none that weren’t PEBKAC). I’ve been running Debian Sid on my Thinkpad X31 for around three years now, and out of curiosity I thought I’d try out Ubuntu [...]
