Archive for November, 2008

Friday fun – photo blogs

28, Nov 2008

Just as Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan passed their sacred knowledge down the line to an apprentice, (apologies non Star Wars fans), the time has come for me to pick up Andy’s light sabre and unleash my own powers upon the council of Hodes. This week we’ve a photographic blogging theme. Why? Well it’s just that we’ve [...]

Progress

18, Nov 2008

Friday last week marked an historic achievement – the transmission of images via holography over long distance (see the recent Torygraph article). OK. so the use of holography isn’t that new. For a while. HP has been looking into holographic data storage (and strugglng to develop a commercially viable application). And even good ol Prince [...]

Friday thoughts: evolution or revolution?

7, Nov 2008

Sorry about the diatribe, but it’s been an interesting week; an historic week, even: Lewis Hamilton becomes the youngest Grand Prix winner ever; and Barack Obama becomes the first black president. Both of these are interesting because they demonstrate two extremes of planning a campaign: in the Barack case, an intelligently prepared campaign strategy that [...]

Queen of Hearts. Ace of Spades.

6, Nov 2008

Have you ever read ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’ by James Surowiecki? The proposition (which goes against the grain of convential social psychology) is that crowds are more effective (or at least more accurate) at decision making than individuals. So that means that, if the general consensus is that Diana was pregnant with Dodi’s love child, [...]

Day 6: the great storehouse

6, Nov 2008

After a long lie in, Alex, Will and I discussed options. The day was due to be punctuated by trips to the beautician (Danda, not us) and to the barbers, which limited our travelling options. Unfortunately, the two-woman barbershop in Redcliff was unable to handle more than one person at a time, which meant that [...]

Friday mails: back to nature

6, Nov 2008

In conducting research for Anglo, PMI and BP, I’ve been looking to understand how companies who are involved in activities that are perceived to be harmful to individuals or the environment actively manage or promote this as a positive challenge in recruitment. Judo marketing, so to speak. Anyway, other than the first link, which is [...]


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