Archive for January 18th, 2008
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Heros and Processes
When companies are small they are successful because of heroes. These are the handful of people that keep the company going and as the organisation grows, the ratio of heroes to other reduces and the company must start to […]
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
twikis are better than blogs - conflicting forces in online media
I was using this blog entry to install MAMP(apache, mysql, php on mac) . The instructions are good and the author has invested a lot of time in working on it - however I ended up making the same mistake as one of the people who commented on this blog - The step “Next […]
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
director => passage of fire
To me having “director” in your title used to mean powerful person but I have come to realize that you don’t get to be a director without screwing some people over. In fact I have realized that if you want to be a director you need to pass though a passage of fire - […]
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Europe needs more power outages
Email from my parents in Johannesburg
”
Hi Paul,
Writing in torch light 4th night in row no light at home after 8pm ESKOM problem!!! good news they say it should be “ok” by 2016!!
All traffic lights have been out etc so trip of 1.5 km to Sandton City can take 30 min.
..
”
Perhaps this could […]
