Monthly Archives March 2006

1999 turning

“David Loye referred to “our capacity - by no means 100% reliable, but to a higher degree than present chaos theory dictates - to predict the future in situations of extreme instability”. “The question I’m pondering is whether it is equally true to say that people can predict the future in situations of extreme stability?” [...]

Working back..to the start

“The inverse problem here is, given an observed connectivity matrix, to work back to the dynamics that generated it.” (Robert Gregson); love the phrase, though maybe would have started with “The solution here is..” but I’m just being picky. It reminds me of a recent meeting when explaning why the structure of a database and [...]

Family gossip

Yesterday I found out that: 1. One uncle is due to have open heart surgery 2. Another uncle is having a heart checkup 3. A brother is away on business in Sidney 4. Another brother had a car plough into his front garden after a bus clipped it in the early hours of the morning.

Analysing the Bush team’s words after 9/11

Get those George W. Bush speeches downloaded and pick out the key words now! (I kid you not: see a study of the Bush team’s words from 11 Sept to 15 Sept 2001 using the Crawdad software; who knows maybe it has KM web 2.0 uses?).
In case it’s of interest - Crawdad Technologies helps analysts [...]

Analysing the Bush team’s words after 9/11

Get those George W. Bush speeches downloaded and pick out the key words now! (I kid you not: see a study of the Bush team’s words from 11 Sept to 15 Sept 2001 using the Crawdad software; who knows maybe it has KM web 2.0 uses?).
In case it’s of interest - Crawdad Technologies helps analysts [...]

Analysing the Bush team’s words after 9/11

Get those George W. Bush speeches downloaded and pick out the key words now! (I kid you not: see a study of the Bush team’s words from 11 Sept to 15 Sept 2001 using the Crawdad software; who knows maybe it has KM web 2.0 uses?).
In case it’s of interest - Crawdad Technologies helps analysts [...]

ICA wig out

Strangely I deigned to smoke one of his Cambodian cigarettes, and was suitably impressed by his Mines Advisory Group T-shirt from Laos..

Bush Recommends Blogs

Bush Recommends Blogs Dropping in on Wheeling, West Virginia yesterday to rally support for the Iraqi War, President Bush also dropped a word that maybe even surprised himself: blogs. The armchair warriors at home whispered among themselves, “did he just say ‘blogs?’”

love 2.0

You know people 2.0? it’s not difficult to describe; it’s like something I read in Wired magazine or somewhere - to live with the freedom and connectivity of the online world but offline. to which my answer is it’s kind of impossible by its nature to give a one size fits all solution to that [...]

people 2.0

alongside web 2.0 what does ‘people 2.0′ mean? and not simply in the sense of people working in that technical sphere? thoughts to come..