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More bridled optimism 
JP via confused of calcutta on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
Having watched him and tracked him for quite a while now, and with the form he’s shown in the last two majors, I cannot help but believe that Camilo Villegas will win a major soon. You heard it here first.
He has this crazy insouciance when he plays, as if it is perfectly reasonable and normal to try and birdie every hole, and
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Circle-linking
JP via confused of calcutta on Thu, 21 Aug. 2008
When I read this evocative piece by Tim O’ Reilly on Linking To Yourself, and began to understand just how widespread the “habit” had become, I began to wonder. Doesn’t it make you go blind, or something like that? It should.
I thought
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Thinking about rules in general
JP via confused of calcutta on Sat, 16 Aug. 2008
Last night, as we entered the dining room at the country club, we were greeted by this wonderful sign:
Gentlemen, please remove your hat. Something quintessentially Tex
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…musing about leadership…
JP via confused of calcutta on Fri, 15 Aug. 2008
I’ve been lazing all week, thinking about as little as possible, spending time with my wife and children, spending time with close friends, spending time with myself.
And in that spending of time, a phrase I read somewhere came back to me:
Leadership is about taking the risk of managing meaning
There’s only a finite num
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Motive and opportunity
JP via confused of calcutta on Sun, 03 Aug. 2008
I like thinking about things. Savouring them as I roll them around my head, tasting them, mulling over them. Ruminating. Masticating.
I like thinking about things in themes. What do I mean? Let’s take an example. A recent
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Everything is correlative
JP via confused of calcutta on Fri, 25 Jul. 2008
People working in the realm of information technology love polarising arguments, something I’ve touched upon a number of times. [Just type in "blefuscu" into the search box for the blog and you will see the posts]. Over the last five years or so, one of the arguments I have been fascinated by is that surrounding the value of “web 2.0″ tools to the developing world. The question
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Murali lets the side down
JP via confused of calcutta on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
[Yes, it's a cricket post. Apologies to those not yet afflicted.]
Twenty20. The IPL. Darrell Hair. Sreesanth,
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You’re a blog
JP via confused of calcutta on Tue, 22 Jul. 2008
Gapingvoid tweeted this earlier this morning.
Coming from Hugh, that’s saying something. Even if he has
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Fearful symmetry
JP via confused of calcutta on Mon, 21 Jul. 2008
Bass: A male singer who sings in the lowest vocal range.
Bass: A name shared by many species of popular gamefish.
Bass: The name of a Cornell professor of neurobiology and behaviour, studying how vocal communication evolved wit
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Musing about lifestreams, subscribe-aggregation and publish-aggregation
JP via confused of calcutta on Sun, 20 Jul. 2008
For years I’ve been watching the way people aggregate and summarise what they do, and how they make such aggregations available to others. In the old days we used to call these chronological aggregations diaries, and we’ve had many famous diarists over the centuries.
Some part of me is deeply enmeshed in an oral tradition: as I’ve discussed earlier, maybe
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A Sunday stroll about design and professions and all that jazz
JP via confused of calcutta on Sun, 20 Jul. 2008
For years, I’ve been told that people in IT are obsessed with “the technology” without really understanding “the business”. This has been good for some people, with the creation of a hybrid role ["Don't worry, Superman is here; I'm a normal person who speaks geekish as well, and I will save the world for you"].
Over the years, over many organisations, I’ve s
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Thinking about opensource and VRM
JP via confused of calcutta on Sat, 19 Jul. 2008
For many years I’ve been of the belief that:
when a problem is generic look to the opensource community for the solution
when a problem is specific to a vertical market look to the commercial community
when a problem is unique to your organisation look to your own developers
You don’t have to be legalistic about it, this is just a rule of thumb a
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Edgy comments
JP via confused of calcutta on Tue, 15 Jul. 2008
Some weeks ago, while in the US, I could not resist buying the latest Atlantic Monthly, seeing that Nicholas Carr had written a piece headlined “Is Google making us stupid?”
Incidentally, for some strange reason, the magazine insis
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A sideways look at IT and IS strategy and VRM
JP via confused of calcutta on Tue, 15 Jul. 2008
I’ve been reading quite a bit of Umair Haque this past year. He makes me think. Take his latest post, Saving Strategy from the Strategists. You don’t have to agree with everything he says, but the following excerpt shows where his head’s at
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The New Blue?
JP via confused of calcutta on Mon, 14 Jul. 2008
No more Blue Screens of Death. Instead, we have these:
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Musing lazily about library science and the web
JP via confused of calcutta on Sat, 12 Jul. 2008
I’ve been digging around the works of S.R. Ranganathan for some time now, triggered by reading David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneou
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Is being “connected” becoming a “sense”?
JP via confused of calcutta on Fri, 11 Jul. 2008
Over the years I’ve started to think harder about being “connected” by thinking harder about what it means not to be “connected”. By this I do not mean the traditional debate about the digital haves versus the digital have-nots, a discussion that soon goes down rabbitholes of economics-meets-education. By this I do not mean the traditional debate about net neutrality and cheap bits an
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Musing about Information and Long Tail and Publish-Subscribe
JP via confused of calcutta on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
I’ve been learning a lot from the whole Twitter phenomenon. How, despite its frailties and weaknesses, it continues to attract followers. How, despite it being “down so ***damn long, that it looks like up to me” people continue to build
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Lazy Sunday thoughts about design and repair
JP via confused of calcutta on Sun, 29 Jun. 2008
There was a strange story making the rounds a few years ago: apparently someone had thought up the idea of etching images of house flies on public urinals; boys being boys and men being men, they “took aim”. And suddenly “spillage” was reduced by lots and lots. You can see the story here.
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Reducing the costs of destruction
JP via confused of calcutta on Wed, 25 Jun. 2008
I had been looking forward to meeting Umair Haque at Supernova a few weeks ago. But it was not to be; sadly, Umair’s mother was ill and so, quite understandably, he couldn’t make it.
There are many reasons for my wanting to meet Umair; just take a look at what Terry Heaton
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