by Tom | May 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lovely start to this piece: Management theory came to life in 1899 with a simple question: "How many tons of pig iron bars can a worker load onto a rail car in the course of a working day?" I also learned a politer version of Waz´s POMA analysis...
by Tom | May 12, 2009 | Reading
What does it say about civilisation that the top 100 Twitterers have so little content of any weight?
by Tom | May 11, 2009 | IT
I have seen the same issue a couple of times: when docked to the left of the screen (as I have it) the taskbar seems to get a shadow that doesn’t auto-hide with the rest of the bar, covering applications on the side of the screen. This appears to happen after...
by Tom | May 11, 2009 | Reading
Genius stuff. It is really hard to pull off singing this badly on purpose.
by Tom | May 11, 2009 | Reading
I often try (and mostly fail) to take pictures like this. Lovely.
by Tom | May 5, 2009 | Science
It’s a shame that we still have to explain how and why randomised controlled trials work. They are one of the great intellectual inventions of the human race, allowing us to get a limited view of causality without the blinders of our emotions. In summary: the...
by Tom | May 5, 2009 | Reading
Lots of great stuff at the radio archive. Ladies of letters for wiffy, for example.
by Tom | May 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
Fascinating quote from Keynes in a McK article which sadly descends into a sales pitch for scenario planning (not that I´m against it, just the sales pitch).The inhabitant of London [in August 1914] could order by telephone,sipping his morning tea in bed, the...
by Tom | May 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
In common with many others, we are loving Pseudo Names in Private Eye. My favourite to date is this one: Sir, We believe that this column has gone as far as it can.ANNE DANNOWD.N. DISNEREANNE-ZOE IPHASEDEE FEIN-AL-KHURTAN Just brilliant. My contribution (thanks to...
by Tom | Apr 29, 2009 | Reading
Fascinating quote from Keynes in a McK article which sadly descends into a sales pitch for scenario planning (not that I’m against it, just the sales pitch).The inhabitant of London [in August 1914] could order by telephone,sipping his morning tea in bed, the...
