by Tom | Aug 23, 2006 | Personal
Trying to book theatre tickets today (for Rock and Roll, fyi), and I could not believe how a) variable and b) expensive the booking fees were. Not content with forcing you to buy the most expensive ticket available. In the end, Lastminute came out the cheapest by...
by Tom | Aug 22, 2006 | Reading
Interesting list of 2×2 matrices applied (mostly) to non-business areas. Consultants’ delight!
by Tom | Jul 31, 2006 | Reading
Interesting discussion from Maister on how all of the onion layers of modern working can and should interlink. Is my project / team / office / country / client / boss / industry / specialism the focus of my effort? I can’t do all of them, as there are just too...
by Tom | Jul 31, 2006 | Reading
Must read summary on why the collapse of the Doha round of world trade talks is a disaster. There appears to be a definite shift in attitude to climate change in the public’s mind, which may well lead to a change in politicians’ attitudes. So the question...
by Tom | Jul 31, 2006 | Reading
Interesting thoughts on the future of marketing from John Hagel. He describes three forces which are combining to change the approach to customers:It’s about attention, not shelf spaceCosts of production and distribution are decliningCustomer acquisition and...
by Tom | Jul 31, 2006 | IT
The first hard drive is 50 years old. It weighed a ton, was the size of two large fridges, cost $250k/year to lease, held 5Mb of data and had 50 24-inch disks. What made it special? Random access to data rather than sequential read from tapes.
by Tom | Jul 31, 2006 | Reading
There’s some useful stuff on this blog “Personal Development for Smart People”, but the tone of it puts my teeth on edge like scratching blackboards.
by Tom | Jul 31, 2006 | Science
I’ve just read about the most recent update from the Parexel / TeGenero clinical trials that went wrong (Elephant men). The four people who were hardest hit appear to have lost a large chunk of their immune system. Translation: they’ll die, pretty quickly,...
by Tom | Jul 28, 2006 | Reading
Looks like the game’s up for the long tail. 80/20 is becoming 70/30, maybe. But Amazon makes 75% of sales from 100,000 items (that’s 2.7% of its stock). So looks like my earlier thoughts were on track. The question now is whether the “mid”...
by Tom | Jul 28, 2006 | Reading
So I’d never heard of khums, an Islamic tax system separate to zakat (which I had heard of). (Lots of good stuff in opendemocracy, by the way.) The article argues that cutting off funding through Lebanon will not cut off funding for Hizbollah, as they could be...
