by Tom | Dec 16, 2004 | Reading
Pay without Performance has pointers to the continuing growth in inequity between company leaders and their staff. Not nice but I don’t know how one might stop this kind of thing.The most telling detail for me is the observation p98, that every single CEO in the...
by Tom | Dec 16, 2004 | Reading
PC photo printers can be as good as or better than professional printing on the high street. Not good news for Boots; great news for Kodak and Epson.
by Tom | Dec 16, 2004 | Reading
Interesting research on consulting salaries from BLT. They appear to be based on what applications through BLT claim on their CVs, rather than survey information. I don’t know how this affects the accuracy, but they seem reasonable. Interesting that my first...
by Tom | Dec 16, 2004 | Reading
The R Project for Statistical Computing looks interesting. We’ve just been struggling with Microsoft’s MapPoint – so much that we’re ditching it in favour of Maps on Tap.
by Tom | Nov 30, 2004 | Reading
Interesting peek into the future in Korea. People don’t like using email becauseThe reasons given for shunning email are that it’s impossible to tell whether an addressee has received a message right away and replies are not immediately forthcoming. Still...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2004 | Reading
The Grauniad reports that a US campaign is behind the turmoil in Kiev. A difficult call this one. I’d rather non-violent protest using elections than removing unwanted administrations through force, but should the US engineer the result it wants? It’s a...
