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Becoming a Management Guru
Wed, 14 May 2008 20:07:00 +0800
As many of you know, I often envision myself as famous and important. The best path to such fame and fortune is through authoring a management guru style book. The success of such book generally hinges on the creation of an acronym summarizing the thesis. Further, such acronym should provide guidance that is both intellectual and physical, as such physicality is the principal way in which the audience attracted to said books is likely to absorb and internalize the meaning of the thesis.
This came to mind today in several meetings where I observed the usual corn fed sales types jumping to conclusions based on limited data. Ladies and gentlemen, the acronym-thesis that will launch my career:
Listen to what people are saying...
Inhale deeply to give your brain the oxygen it needs...
Think about what was said and how it relates to the problem at hand...
Exhale and let your mind explore the meaning...
React to what was said and draw conclusions.
Yes, yes yes. I am buying my head mike.
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Becoming a Management Guru
Wed, 14 May 2008 20:06:00 +0800
As many of you know, I often envision myself as famous and important. The best path to such fame and fortune is through authoring a management guru style book. The success of such book generally hinges on the creation of an acronym summarizing the thesis. Further, such acronym should provide guidance that is both intellectual and physical, as such physicality is the principal way in which the audience attracted to said books is likely to absorb and internalize the meaning of the thesis.
This came to mind today in several meetings where I observed the usual corn fed sales types jumping to conclusions based on limited data. Ladies and gentlemen, the acronym-thesis that will launch my career:
Listen to what people are saying...
Inhale deeply to give your brain the oxygen it needs...
Think about what was said and how it relates to the problem at hand...
Exhale and let your mind explore the meaning...
React to what was said and draw conclusions.
Yes, yes yes. I am buying my head mike.
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New Commenting System on Aripaparo.com
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:23:00 +0800
Hey ANP!, I have news for you. I've implemented the Disqus commenting system on this blog so it can now support threaded conversations and better spam correction. I'm sure the other two readers will be happy as well.
Let me know what you think by...um...commenting.
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Semantic Web Explained
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:35:00 +0800
Really interesting Powerpoint -- whoops -- Google Docs presentation explaining a vision of the future beyond keyword search. Found on Techcrunch.
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Moses!
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:18:00 +0800
In honor of Mr. Heston's passing:
Also, here's a compendium of surprise endings from Mr. Heston's sci-fi period. We rented Planet of the Apes a couple of years ago and the wife didn't know about the ending -- it was thrilling to see her reaction to the Statue of Liberty.
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Anil Dash Wins Battledecks
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:53:00 +0800
Finally, a competition where I'd have a chance of winning. Competitive, absurdist, Powerpoint. Also known as Battledecks. Almost makes me want to attend SXSW.
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DoubleClick Widget Marketing Widget
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:04:00 +0800
So last Fall I spoke at the widget summit, and this caused some snickers among my co-workers. Since then I've blogged about widgets, and written a byline about widgets. I also blogged a video about people trying to explain widgets. Next Tuesday I will be in LA at OMMA Hollywood, pitching DoubleClick's widget solutions.
The culmination of this widget frenzy is a widget that explains widget marketing, which I like to call the "DoubleClick Widget Marketing Widget". It lets you calculate the value of your widget marketing ... wait for it ... in a widget! Please grab/snag/embed it so the meme can propagate through the known universe. I am also going to twitter about my widget.
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E Gary Gygax
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:39:00 +0800
Some quickies on the death of E. Gary Gygax. Needless to say he was responsible for an enormous amount of inefficiency in my youth.
Great essay from the New York Times on his influence.
Outstanding infographic from the same article. I'm currently in the box "Blogging About Diagrams"
Wondering why none of the articles about his death are including the E in E. Gary Gygax.
Wikipedia lets me know the E stood for Ernest. I was guessing Eugene. Also, does the initial "Stand for" or "Stood for" after someone has passed away?
If you'd like to bring the spirit of youthful inefficiency to your present day desk-bound job visit this compendium of all the original books and materials for D&D.
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Fast Company Explains Widgets
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:54:00 +0800
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My New Thinkpad
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:37:00 +0800
My IBM Thinkpad died over the course of the past week and the helpful help desk folks got me a new Lenovo-branded version. Here's how the rest of my day played out:
New PC weighs enough to knock my vertibrae out of line. Extended life battery=pain while traveling
Am I a racist if my immediately feel like the Chinese-made laptop is of lower quality than the US-made one?
But didn't they make old IBM Thinkpads in China anyway? So yes, I am a racist. :)
Does a smiley face offset an accusation of racism?
Screen resolution is 1400x1050, making my head hurt badly. Try lower resolution and screen gets blurry making head hurt worse.
Launch IE since its the only browser. I was not aware my security settings were unsafe. I was not aware the IE would be blocking certain sites. No, I would not like IE to block anything, I am an adult. I would, in fact, like to download this file even though it may be hazardous.
Install Firefox.
Install Screenhunter
Install Delicious plugin for Firefox. Doesn't work. Can't login to site, forced to uninstall
Install old version of AIM since current version is intensely slow.
Nonsense message about encryption: Don't tell me about this again.
Nonsense message about certificates: Don't tell me about this again.
Nonsense message about Java needing updates: When was the last time I ran a Java program?
Adobe needs updates? Why exactly?
"Your system is about to shut down. Please save your work." Whoh! How the hell did that almost happen.
Asked the Help desk for CS3, got Adobe Acrobat. Uggh.
Install Google Desktop. No, I don't want news alerts or widgets. I want search.
LookOut for Outlook is no longer available. Clearly Microsoft doesn't want any useful programs available under their brand name.
How to remove the useless Adobe toolbar in all my applications...Google has the answer!
Move shortcut from desktop. "Are you sure?" That's like asking if you're sure you don't want ketchup on your fries. Who cares?
Explore the NVIDIA control panel. Seems useful. Makes my windows transparent when moving them. 5 minutes later settings no longer have any effect.
Install Flash
Will install Silverlight as soon as a website asks me to
Will install AIR as soon as I need it
Back to work, not the most productive day I can remember.
Also, I was on a panel with the CMO of ThinkPad a while back. He said that he and his team monitor blogs and message boards intensely for discussion of the products. Interested to see if this one comes up.
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