Archive for June, 2009
In my last post, I talked about my motivations for keeping this blog, one of which was improving my writing and helping myself get better at thinking about things more clearly. I also said that I want to get better at using it to start conversations. In aid of that, then, is there anyone who’d be [ READ MORE ]
I started blogging back in 2001 with an account on LiveJournal. Most of what I wrote back then was just personal reflections, accounts of events in my life, and the occasional rant about my employers. I didn’t have any coherent reason for keeping a blog; it was just kinda cool and gave me a forum [ READ MORE ]
Don’t screw up the little things in life – they’re easy to achieve, and failure to do so can be expensive in time, effort, or stress. In life, there’s lots of little things you can easily do that avoid expensive annoyance later on. Take keys, for example: failing to check that you have them when you [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been involved with the Orion’s Arm Universe Project for almost 9 years now, almost since its inception. In that time, it’s grown from a mailing list of 10 or so to a thriving community with about 60 active contributors, a board of 10, over a thousand people signed up on the mailing list, and something [ READ MORE ]
Came across this in an issue of IEEE Computer today. It’s a simple conceptual model from the 1960s by a guy called Bruce Tuckman of the stages small groups go through; groups such as committees, work groups, and project teams. The basic stages seem obvious, but, as with many models of human behaviour, the [ READ MORE ]