Posts Tagged ‘asides’
How to be the best manager in the world
October 10th, 2007 • 1 comment Life
Tags: asides, management
Simply delightful parody at Slacker Manager, listing the Seven Habits Of Highly Ineffective Managers. I checked through the list feeling smug (I am, of course, flawless), until I got to this one…
Give someone on your team a project. Don’t tell them how important it is. Keep throwing more little balls at them until they drop the big one. Complain about how they have no idea what’s really important to you. Continue until they cry or quit, whichever comes first.Do the same thing with projects you get. Focus on the urgent, forget the important, and keep fighting those fires!
A complete history of the first time things happened
October 3rd, 2007 • 1 comment Life, Media
Tags: asides, great sites
Oh, now I’m a happy boy. This is the sort of stuff you could lose years of your life to… The First Time News Was Fit To Print is a compilation of the first mentions in the New York Times of famous people, places, things and terms.Sound dull? You need to get out more…mental_floss magazine - Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Billionaires spill the beans
September 22nd, 2007 • Life
Tags: asides, wealth
Secrets Of The Self-Made 2007 - Forbes.comGripping reading. Taken the advice on board, can’t wait to begin implementing The Big Plan first thing on Monday morning…Yours,Delusional
The human condition, captured in vegetation
September 21st, 2007 • Life
Tags: asides, great sites
Thank you, Bears and Buds. I wake up on a Saturday morning, wanting to put my head in the microwave after The Bastard Week From Hell. So I pick up my Mac to catch up on web-based comings and goings, and there’s this. Vegetables. Cut into the shapes of animals. This is what life’s about - accurate depictions of hamsters hewn from potatoes.
Headline juxtapositions: as bad online as off
September 20th, 2007 • Media
Tags: , asides
I grew up in print magazines, where the first rule was to watch for elements on a page - you’d be amazed how easy it is to miss a crass clash of headline and image or advertising message.So I felt a wave of deja vu when I spotted this over at Valleywag…
FoxNews: sensational
September 5th, 2007 • Journalism, Life, Media
Tags: asides, TV
A few days back from the San Francisco holiday, and I still have FoxNews’ television coverage of the Larry Craig story rattling around my head.
Even as a humble Brit, I know that Fox has a reputations for eye-catching news delivery. But although a good number of US media pundits are less than kind to Craig (who, if you’re unaware of the story, is a senator accused of immodest behavior in a gent’s loo), there was an edge to Fox that left an acidic taste.
I caught one round-table group of pundits discussing the senator’s fate. I can’t recall the names, but I can see the glee on their faces: he had been weighed, measured and found wanting - slightly premature, perhaps, given that he had yet to officially climb onto the scales.
To my surprise, I became addicted during the holiday to a half hour of Fox before retiring for the night - it was the same addiction I developed to LBC radio, back in the days when it decided than anything less than 11 was showing a lack of commitment. I’m just not sure I’d want to base my reality on what it told me.
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