by Tom | Oct 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Great shot of the first rocket launched from Cape Canaveral. Not too many press, not too much health and safety – look how close they are and without shielding.
by Tom | Oct 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Junk charts rightly praises a chart in the NYT – we did similar things back at iMPOWER for the Welland partnership looking at their various contract expiry dates over time to see when they could do joint procurements. I called them Baranksi diagrams, after my...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Reading
Interesting analysis of the Congressional votes on the bail out. Summary: if you are retiring and don’t care about voters you voted for it; if you are in a close fought seat, you voted against it. Everyone else was evenly divided. I like the factoid: $700bn...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Reading
Some great stories on consulting presentations. I still enjoy two Datamonitor stories based on overhead projectors (yes I’m old):“Hi, my name is Dean B.”. Turns on projector which promptly explodes. Meeting adjourned.Ali picks up her first slide and...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Science
Yikes – they are pretty out there. Example: “Computation at Scale: How can we develop asymptotics for a world with massively many degrees of freedom?”
