Sunday, August 10
Just a quick one-two-three; huu-raah for Norway...
The weather was great all weekend, Spirit of Norway won the boat race (see Tuesday's entry), Petter Solberg raced his way up to the numer two slot in Finland and "Tutta" Pedersen got a second place in Stockholms HP Open [in Swedish]golf tournament
Wednesday, August 6
Stress - work
Now here is a subject that is good enough to cover during "working hours" - STRESS
"The CIO role is tailor-made for feeling out of control."
- power over development, but usually not over budgets and high-level priorities - over developers but not over users and their changing, undefined desires. With increasing use of computers there are more systems than ever, rather than a few good, stable suitable systems for all.
"Constant stress does more than damage your health. It destroys your judgement and distorts your decision-making process."
- you don't have time to read the backgroound material, never mind preparing a brief for somebody else on it! So it boils down to what is most convenient AS-IS, with a low up-front cost and a nice looking feature list. Then two months down the road everything has to be reworked and refitted - because.... well, no one knows!
"For 50 percent of the people who get cardiovascular disease, death is the first symptom"
- so much for restorative treatment.
...so that's it - I'm heading out into the beautiful summer day, to relax and enjoy life! (but I'll probably be stuck in front of the pc again this evening... c'est la IT-vie)
"The CIO role is tailor-made for feeling out of control."
- power over development, but usually not over budgets and high-level priorities - over developers but not over users and their changing, undefined desires. With increasing use of computers there are more systems than ever, rather than a few good, stable suitable systems for all.
"Constant stress does more than damage your health. It destroys your judgement and distorts your decision-making process."
- you don't have time to read the backgroound material, never mind preparing a brief for somebody else on it! So it boils down to what is most convenient AS-IS, with a low up-front cost and a nice looking feature list. Then two months down the road everything has to be reworked and refitted - because.... well, no one knows!
"For 50 percent of the people who get cardiovascular disease, death is the first symptom"
- so much for restorative treatment.
...so that's it - I'm heading out into the beautiful summer day, to relax and enjoy life! (but I'll probably be stuck in front of the pc again this evening... c'est la IT-vie)
Tuesday, August 5
Wired Ideas
Have to stop reading Wired.... just getting to much input - two more and I'm definetly calling it a nice evening of surfing and musings.
First off - US patent 5.732.138 - the Lavalamp Random Number Generator... who would have thought that so much thought and effort goes into making a numebr - and then ends up beeing used for generating dices in an online game of backgammon!?! (Source code on SF so set up your own lamp - and you can start playing dice at home without complaining of "bad luck" www.blinkenlights.de/images/ blm/huge/bad_luck.blm.gif)
Then, floating on (pun intended!) to AntiGravity - or ion-wind-propullsion as it is debunked as...
Smoking out the problems - I admit to being geeky enough to want my own "hovercraft", even if pumping 20 000 V into something on my living-room table is out for now, leave it to the French and their mice for now (memo to self: need to move to place with shack suitable for creative diversions....)
First off - US patent 5.732.138 - the Lavalamp Random Number Generator... who would have thought that so much thought and effort goes into making a numebr - and then ends up beeing used for generating dices in an online game of backgammon!?! (Source code on SF so set up your own lamp - and you can start playing dice at home without complaining of "bad luck" www.blinkenlights.de/images/ blm/huge/bad_luck.blm.gif)
Then, floating on (pun intended!) to AntiGravity - or ion-wind-propullsion as it is debunked as...
Smoking out the problems - I admit to being geeky enough to want my own "hovercraft", even if pumping 20 000 V into something on my living-room table is out for now, leave it to the French and their mice for now (memo to self: need to move to place with shack suitable for creative diversions....)
Fireworks - and then some
Looking out at the night-sky reminds me of natural fireworks - a deep yellow half-moon, scattered clouds like paint frozen on the sky... WHERE is my new camera when I really need it!?!
Oh well - read up a bit on "real" fireworks and hopefullt I'll get some good pictures come the weekend. (Of the summer sky - and mayb some fireworks from the boatrace with Spirit of Norway looking for another "home turf" win in the big race.
Speaking - or writing as it actually is ;D - of spectacular sights, I wouldn't mind a quick trip over to the Big Apple - for some serious Anime action later this month... even if today the Marriot might not be top of the places to visit.
Maybe a trip down "memory" lane - with old games at the CGE could be nice? Or reading books with other in Canada at Torcon?
...just back from one vacation - and can't stop drooling over other places to go and things to do! Isn't that typical? The more you travel, the more you want to see - the more you learn the more you want to find out - knowledge breeds a thirst for knowledge, because we understand how much more there is to learn/see/do/play/read/... (most activities here - what is it possible to do fully today?)
Oh well - read up a bit on "real" fireworks and hopefullt I'll get some good pictures come the weekend. (Of the summer sky - and mayb some fireworks from the boatrace with Spirit of Norway looking for another "home turf" win in the big race.
Speaking - or writing as it actually is ;D - of spectacular sights, I wouldn't mind a quick trip over to the Big Apple - for some serious Anime action later this month... even if today the Marriot might not be top of the places to visit.
Maybe a trip down "memory" lane - with old games at the CGE could be nice? Or reading books with other in Canada at Torcon?
...just back from one vacation - and can't stop drooling over other places to go and things to do! Isn't that typical? The more you travel, the more you want to see - the more you learn the more you want to find out - knowledge breeds a thirst for knowledge, because we understand how much more there is to learn/see/do/play/read/... (most activities here - what is it possible to do fully today?)
Summers lease
So, summer isn't quite over - actually it almost just keeps getting better, warmer, sunnier, .... but my week (and then some) out of town - is over - and I'm back to typing up some thoughts and musings
Relationships takes two - breaking up only takes one
Is this way commitment is so hard - and the reason friendships seem to last longer than "real" relationships?
"Cloakroom community" - when you hang your coat in a restaurant or at the theatre, it gets close to a lot of other jackets - does this mean that you have something in common with the others having dinner that day - or seeing the same show? Is that all it takes to make a community - spatial closeness due to soverlapping plans (independent of the reasons behind - birthday party, breaking up, celebrating a business deal - or trying to make one)
...added a title in October, reformating for new template and new blogger style
(and yes, it is a nod to the bard himself, W.S, sonnet # anyone)
Relationships takes two - breaking up only takes one
Is this way commitment is so hard - and the reason friendships seem to last longer than "real" relationships?
"Cloakroom community" - when you hang your coat in a restaurant or at the theatre, it gets close to a lot of other jackets - does this mean that you have something in common with the others having dinner that day - or seeing the same show? Is that all it takes to make a community - spatial closeness due to soverlapping plans (independent of the reasons behind - birthday party, breaking up, celebrating a business deal - or trying to make one)
...added a title in October, reformating for new template and new blogger style
(and yes, it is a nod to the bard himself, W.S, sonnet # anyone)
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