by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Business, Government, Personal, Reading
Der Spiegel is convinced that the financial sector is once again an imminent threat to the world economy. (As I wrote that I found myself wondering if financial markets were the world economy. They aren’t of course, just as the occasional shutting down of...
by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Reading, Tech
Entertaining purchase of an ePub from eBooks (as it isn’t in the Kindle store) that I couldn’t then read on my Kindle without removing DRM and converting. Such a shame to have to do this for something that I own! It should be easier. Works fine, used...
by Tom | Aug 24, 2011 | Business
I guess outsourcing can lead to a death spiral for companies. I wonder why the example is of Dell, which I think is still going, though losing market share. The more interesting question is whether the radical management ideas recommended are solutions to this issue....
by Tom | Aug 22, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Still odd to come back home from a summer beach holiday to somewhere that’s hotter than where you left. Great time in Bali, back to the grindstone tomorrow. Might just see the little master make a ton of tons, though.
by Tom | Aug 12, 2011 | Reading
Peter Oborne is spot on.
by Tom | Aug 12, 2011 | Personal
Beautiful villa in Bali with butler and fizz. And relax. Coincidentally, we arrived on the day that the St Pancras Renaissance responded to my complainta with a letter addressed to Mr Haggett.
by Tom | Aug 11, 2011 | Reading
Some glorious light relief because the cricket might not be on.
by Tom | Aug 11, 2011 | Business
Recruitment 4.0. Targeted at mainstream recruitment rather than search, but still a bit of a mind-futz. I’m not sure crowdsourcing is going to be as useful as the author suggests, but the increasing gamification of jobs and activities I can see. Companies...
by Tom | Aug 11, 2011 | IT
Sometimes I find that newly created Google documents do not show up in the home page. Google Docs Documents Go Missing For Some has the fix. Put a * in the search box and there they are.
by Tom | Aug 10, 2011 | Reading
Inside North Korea has some great and unusual shots from North Korea. We’ll definitely go, maybe next year.
