Posts by: Steve Nimmons

Anti Pattern: Below the Radar

There is significant catharsis in codification of this Anti Pattern. It is a truism that ‘you get what you measure’, and subversion of governance processes is for some, a creative pass time. A ‘common crime’ is establishment of arbitrary thresholds for governance…

Quotations on Monday: Writers and Writing

This week’s quotations dedicated to writing and writers. Peter de Vries: I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork. W. Somerset Maugham: The humour of Dostoyevsky is the humour of a bar-loafer who ties a kettle to a…

Quora Q: How do you train yourself to "think outside of the box"?

http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-train-yourself-to-think-outside-of-the-box/answer/Steve-Nimmons A Q&A snippet from Quora on ‘thinking out of the box’… My Answer ‘Thinking outside the box’ is something of a cliché, but has validity in lateral thinking. I consider Occam’s Razor problematic at times as it leads to obvious and…

If you have to revert to a static website

Rasberry Pi launch The Raspberry Pi launch has clearly been a success. Due to high traffic volumes the folks at http://www.raspberrypi.org/ stood up a static webpage (pictured above). RS Components and Premier Farnell who have entered into licensed manufacture partnerships with Raspberry…

Market Watch: Google Bails on Clearwire

Clearwire price Feb 21 – Feb 27 2012   Interesting news on the market wires (from Friday) that Google is selling its investment in Clearwire at an expected loss of some $453m (i.e. 91% of original investment). There was approximately a 7%…

Neural Enterprise Architecture

  Einstein: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. This is an absolutely beautiful package…

Chill Your Viper

Chill your viper   It is surprising how many corporations have archaic, tedious, annoying, time consuming and self-defeating fulfilment processes for free content (white papers, brochures, technical specs etc.)distribution. This is bizarre. Yes, they collect emails (some fake) and other personal detritus,…

Quotations on Monday: Insults and Invectives

The tech review exit strategy, courtesy of Herbert Beerbohm Tree The final quote might prove useful if pestered in a similar manner. Benjamin Disraeli speaking of Gladstone: A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. P. J. O’Rourke: If…

The Code of Hammurabi and the Calling of an Engineer

Hammurabi, the sixth Babylonian king established the Hammurabi code, which dates from 1772 BC. A significant portion of the Code deals with contract agreements and an early ‘form of wage regulation’. Liability and punishment for poor design and construction were laid out…
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