Monthly Archives: May 2004

RESURRECT FRIDAY FIVE?

Posted on May 15, 2004 by Dave Pollard

A long-standing and very popular tradition in the blogosphere — The Friday Five — in which you were invited to answer the week’s five questions on your blog and then link back to the home site, so participants can browse … Continue reading →

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“THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN”

Posted on May 14, 2004 by Dave Pollard

“The system is broken” — that’s how a company captain in Baghdad, interviewed recently by Seymour Hersh, explained the grossly inadequate, seriously underskilled and undertrained US military and freelance contractors, struggling with incompetent and ambiguous management from both the military … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 13 Comments

PTV: A FUTURE-STATE STORY

Posted on May 13, 2004 by Dave Pollard

It’s 2015. Thirteen-year-old Kari Ross just got a PTV for her birthday, the much-anticipated PC/TV convergence product. PTV comes with the following hardware and software: a stereo headset with a built-in microphone a flip-up 3D screen that clips onto her … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves, Using Weblogs and Technology | 9 Comments

AN INTERACTIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR BLOGS

Posted on May 12, 2004 by Dave Pollard

As you may know, I’ve been maintaining (manually) detailed tables of contents of my blog posts (one per blog ‘category’) since I started. They’re a bit clumsy, but they get a fair bit of traffic so I know people are … Continue reading →

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DAVE SNOWDEN ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Posted on May 11, 2004 by Dave Pollard

One of my peers in the badly-named discipline of Knowledge Management is IBM’s complexity guru, Dave Snowden. Last year Dave wrote a paper entitled Managing for Serendipity, which I really enjoyed. Dave appears to share my disdain for the context-free … Continue reading →

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MOTHER’S DAY: TRAMPOLINING WITH GRANDMA

Posted on May 11, 2004 by Dave Pollard

The new trampolines for kids come with a high safety net that completely surrounds the sides of the trampoline, so that you don’t need a ‘spotter’ to safeguard against falling off. When you photograph through the net, you get a … Continue reading →

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FINAL RESULTS – GREAT CANADIAN SONG CONTEST

Posted on May 11, 2004 by Dave Pollard

As promised, here are the results of the Great Canadian Song contest. At the end of the first round, our four judges, Chris Corrigan, Darren Barefoot, Robert Cooke and I, whittled the 76 nominees down to 20 finalists. We then … Continue reading →

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PUSHING THE BLOGGING ENVELOPE: BETTER, FASTER, SIMPLER, FREE

Posted on May 10, 2004 by Dave Pollard

My Blog Functionality Scorecard 1. WYSIWYG text editing and publishing 11. content sorting/searching/indexing 2. automatic conversion from/to other formats 12. integrated conference scheduler 3. abstracting 13. integrated VoIP (with v-mail) 4. auto-publishing when saving or sending 14. integrated video 5. … Continue reading →

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ATKINS FOR DOGS

Posted on May 9, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Chelsea has been on hypothyroid medicine since we adopted her, and despite that, three 1-mile walks a day, and a careful diet, she’s still overweight. When Rob Paterson visited last month he suggested we try her on a low-carb diet … Continue reading →

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REMAINDERS

Posted on May 9, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Here’s a few news stories from the past week that didn’t get much attention, that should have: Tyson Meat Packers CEO headed to Canadian prison?: Canadian Parliament finds the Big 3 Canadian meat packers in contempt, for failure to turn … Continue reading →

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