According to the BBC, the British Library is spending £2 million on digitizing old newspapers, more than a million pages, going back to 1800. Estimated launch in 18 months, so come New Year 2006 we should be able to get a good look at how our ancestors viewed their great changes. Stay tuned?
[filling my head with the beats of: Yeah - Usher and then some ]
Working - what does it take do be an attractive employee these days, after the dot com bubble, and in a day and age where cost-cutting and efficiency are the key drivers? According to Finn Skårderud, it is not about what you know (how to do), but rather how flexible you are in terms of changing skills, responsibilities and goals/owners. So how do you prepare yourself for long term commitment if it is all about flux and change? Are quarterly reports and short term stock price fluctuations eroding the long term viability of business? With CEOs floating between companies and industries at least every five years, how do you motivate the employees to go further - to give more?
Incoming
After spending a bit more time than normal outdoors lately - I started thinking about mosquitoes and their various cousins. Shouldn't they give off a "stay away" scent when they are swatted, to warn others to stay clear or be extra careful? Or would it be overpowered by the possible scent of the blood they had started extracting - and in total actually attract MORE flying pests?
...the sun is mostly out in full as I sit in the middle of nowhere waiting to be found
