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I need a bit of help on working with a MySQL database as part of my Movable Type installation. I need separate out one stream of entries from another whilst preserving their irregular ID numbers. All suggestions gratefully received at johnm at roundourhouse dot com.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
Often it’s in so called negative emotions that we can find the real life in our meetings
Years ago Alan Moore showed me a brilliant clip of Bill Hicks ripping Marketing a new one. I just found it on YouTube: (Warning: Not Work Safe!) I used this
The latest TV ad (clip at David Reviews) for Sainsbury’s features Jamie Oliver as usual only there’s a distinct change in tone. Instead of our Jamie doing a pseudo-report on
Tim Kastelle points out that people mostly don’t like new ideas. Novelty disturbs and repels – no wonder it’s so hard to get our great new ideas across. Machiavelli was
