I wrote a piece on machinima, and pointed at two pieces I really enjoyed, the first being “South Park: Make Love not Warcraft”, which shows what happens when the boys get addicted to their favourite online game and the second was “Leeroy Jenkins”. …
About ITV
I have been catching up on my reading over the last few days and was browsing the March copy of Management Today, in which Chris Allen, the CEO of ITV was interviewed. In the interview he boasted that ITV2 is now the most watched digital channel in the UK, eclipsing Sky One. Its an illustration that something other than channel is important. …
Yet more South Park
A bunch of the Sun bloggers have been using a “What you’d look like in South Park!” tool hosted here… to make images of themselves, or occasionally others. My younger son made this for me.
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Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It…
Reading Dan Gilmore’s “Good Morning Silicon Valley”, and he cross referenced this. “Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It…“, it’s written by a women and Geek’s & Nerd’s good qualities are finally recognised. …
Capitalism, Communism & Monopoly
Jonathan’s Blog article “Scare Tactics in the World of Open Source” seems to imply Microsoft use the allegation of Communism as a massive insult. I understand that this isn’t unusual in the US. Probably best not ask which is a worse insult, Communist or Monopolist; only one of these activities is defended by the 1st Amendment. …
Some language nonsense
My younger son was doing his homework the other day and his word processor flagged “Armed Police” as a grammar error. We were hoping that it was an oxymoron like Military Intelligence or “Young Conservative”, but discovered sadly that it was caused by a double space between the words. …
Arrogance ability ratio
The other day (Sept), Dilbert and Co. were introduced to the productivity/usefullness ratio. Despite working hard, a co-worker is absolutely useless and is of course told by the manager to work less. …
About Pressure
At a meeting the other day one of the participants stated, that
“I thrive on pressure.”
My view was that they’d obviously never met anyone any good at applying it. …
Education, education
We were watching University Challenge the other week when the picture question came up and our younger son answered all three correctly identifying a war-hammer, a halberd and a morning-star/flail. Our good opinion of his diligence at history studies fell rapidly when he told us he knew because of the hours on the computer playing “Diablo”. …
The wonderful wankometer
In the ongoing war against pomposity and bullshit, some anonymous people at cynicalbastards.com offer the wankometer as a service. This web site lets site authors discover the amount of management wank in their prose or on their sites. …