Any economics 101 student or 1980′s middle manager can tell you about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Simple put, theres a stack of stuck of stuff, and unless you have the items in the stack below you, you’re unlikely to be happy. It’s a way of modelling ways of motivating people. Giving me a pair of [...]
Capitalist society puhed you to make enough money to have other people do things for you. At the very lowest level, most people don’t grow their own food, they pay somebody for it. They don’t make their own clothes either, they buy them. Once you move up the food chain (the financial food chain) a [...]
Sitting on the train this morning, reading the news and catching up on my inbox (pre-7:30am – get me), I looked up, and my mouth fell open, as I watched the firey peach ball of sun burning off the layer of mist which was caught agains the frozen ground. It was breathtaking, magnificent, almost too [...]
If you’re having trouble fitting the diagram onto a page, or to not let Visio mess up your alignments, then the solution you’re trying to design is too complex. Paraphrased: If it wouldn’t fit on the back of a fag packet, you shouldn’t even think about it. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn [...]
As I give what I’m doing with my life far too much through at the moment, I enjoyed both these articles, “Open letter to CEOs, COOs, CIOs and CFOs across the corporate world” and it’s follow “Open letter to employees across the corporate world“, both of which makes some very good points. This morning I [...]
Kitty was cool, but these are vile. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
oh yeah! kitty rocks! Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing Two very important things
Dear Paranoid Ameriica, Putting police men with fuck off huge machines guns on the street will not make you more safe, it will just make your populus more scared, meaning yet more draconian laws can be passed. If your police men can’s kill a suicide bomber with their current arsonal of 9mm semi automatic pistols, [...]
From my minds eye High in the sky I see a house I knew so well And where I will Trend never again I’m sorry Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Hot and sour manly popcorn Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing
…they sometimes don’t say what you want them to say. Personally I beleive in being a speaker of unplesent truthes, and generally it serves me well in work, life and hopefully other areas. The easy thing to do in nearly all cases is to ignore the really rough bits, and hope everythign works out ok, [...]
Pies are deeply unfashional at the moment it seems, with chavs munching down (and silencing their offspring) with Gregs Dummies, and every Food Nazi from Queen Gillian McKeith downwards loathing their fat laden fillings and pastry topping, so I was quite proud of Jamie Oliver when he set about making a beef and cheese pie [...]