Monthly Archives January 2006

My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr

In memory of the death of Coretta Scott King, the wife of Martin Luther King Jr, here’s a little piece I wrote in 1998, which never got published to my knowledge until now. Hope it makes sense..

Google Gets Social

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Gets Social
“Who says Google doesn’t play the tagging, sharing, social search game? Not Google. Today it released a new version of its toolbar that’s very….well…Web 2.0. From SEW coverage: Google has enhanced its toolbar for Internet Explorer, introducing several new features that will appeal to regular users of the program. [...]

White Paper

Finally, on a Monday, the White Paper is published:
“The ‘Our health, our care, our say’ White Paper sets out a vision to provide people with good quality social care and NHS services in the communities where they live. NHS services are half way through a 10 year plan to become more responsive to patient [...]

No to drugs, but yes to the coca leaf

“Bolivia’s new left-wing government has put a coca grower in charge of the fight against drug trafficking (BBC News). Felipe Caceres was appointed deputy minister for social defence by President Evo Morales - who was once a coca grower himself. Mr Caceres is a former mayor of a town in the coca-growing region of [...]

Experts from Egypt are coming to Bosnia’s Valley of Pyramids..

** News Flash** …the Bosnian Pyramid team have taken down the news about archaeologists from Egypt is taken down from their site pending full confirmation at a meeting with Egyptian archaeologists next week…

Experts from Egypt are coming to Bosnia’s Valley of Pyramids..

** News Flash** …the Bosnian Pyramid team have taken down the news about archaeologists from Egypt is taken down from their site pending full confirmation at a meeting with Egyptian archaeologists next week…

Experts from Egypt are coming to Bosnia’s Valley of Pyramids..

** News Flash** …the Bosnian Pyramid team have taken down the news about archaeologists from Egypt is taken down from their site pending full confirmation at a meeting with Egyptian archaeologists next week…

This explains tagging benefits better than I can!

Tagging and why it matters

A cock and a bull

Well went to see ‘A Cock and Bull Story’ which was some very dry English humour with a film within a film and all that post-modern stuff. Pretty fun, though also got a little disjointed for its own good at times, but worth a looksee if u like Steve Coogan. Some nice one liners in [...]

Ban the word process

I would like to ban the word ‘process’ from management speak. Systems can be pretty badly applied to. What is process but just the word used to capture whatever rag bag of activites you have and then apply a false formality using the word process. And when people say systems they really mean technology in [...]