Me, unshaven some more., originally uploaded by Micheal Axelsen. This is about day 10 of no-shaving. I’m thinking of buying suspenders and growing a beard for that full academic look. I think I look like a young Leonard Maltin with a terrible beard. Don’t know how long it will last – previous best effort is …
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Click here for a full screen version of the eCard. Just for you, I’ve created my very own Australian-themed Christmas card this year, complete with the Kingswood I had in 1992. We’d gone on a trip to Northern New South Wales, mis-read a Refidex, and what can I say – apparently Kingswoods aren’t four-wheel drives, …
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Imaginary ambiguity occurs when a word with a fixed meaning seems to have a different one. Imaginary ambiguity derives from the optional interpretation that the recipient of the communication places on the information received. Two distinct types of ambiguity can be categorised as imaginary ambiguity: emphatic and suggestive. Emphatic Ambiguity The question of ambiguity deriving …
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For some time I’ve been one of those accounting/ICT people who delves into the world of knowledge management every now and then. This is an area of practice where buzz words abound – communities of practice, centres of excellence, and the venerable ‘knowledge worker’ to name a few. In the past week I’ve had cause …
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Wowsers. Saw on http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/engelbart_celebration/ this video: ‘the mother of all demos’ by Doug Engelbart in 1968: I haven’t seen all of it yet – you’ll need to set aside a chunk of time – but it promises to be really, really interesting. Considering that this is back in the day when you wrote your own …
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