The Big Picture: Congo

The Big Picture: Congo

If you had to choose a subset of your stuff that you could carry on your head, what would you choose? The solidier below is in a bullet-riddled tent, not under the stars as I first thought. As always, the photos tell a story that some of the words you read don´t...

Take your time for expertise

Gladwell says genius doesn´t necessarily come at speed. I guess this links in to the 10,000 hours concept as well? It ws funny to hear the latter being mentioned on Radio 4 Thought for the day  just after I had read about it.

Open OSX application from command line

Didn´t want to go downstairs to start iTunes so I can listen to our shared library in the office. SSH in and issue the command open -a itunes.app and all is well. Thanks to MacOSXHints for the information.

ScribeFire links break with WordPress

Looks like there is a PHP bug that caused some of my links to get messed up on the blog. The standard entities like less-than and greater-than get removed from the script. Not sure who´s going to fix this, but here are some links to keep an eye on.

Commissions fail

I think Joel is right: make it unacceptable to game commissions and incentive structures and you probably have a happy company. Just putting more detailed steps in the incentive programme to stop gaming won´t work.