Monthly Archives: July 2006

How much do you love me?

This was the last file that we sent to see at the “film festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz/. Maybe I don’t _get_ French com­edy, but I found the end of this film incom­press­ible. It star­ted off with a good premise, and some inter­est­ing ideas, but over­all it is a stinker.I’ll give it one star out of five.

Manager Tools

I do enjoy pod­casts. One of the best ones I’ve found is done by the folks at “Man­ager Toos”:http://www.manager-tools.com/. Their pod­casts provide a wide range of beha­viours that man­agers can imple­ment to improve their effeict­ive­ness (and effi­ciency). If you want to be a bet­ter man­ager — and you want to improve in bite size pieces,

The Dean of CBS

How do you know you have a world-class busi­ness school. When the Dean can do some­thing like this per­haps? That was the Dean of Columbia Busi­ness School tak­ing the mickley out of CBS alumni, and cur­rent FED chair­men, Ben Bernanke. {Oh, I shame­lessly lif­ted this from Manu’s “blog”:http://manuelkoser.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/every-breath-you-take-remake-%e2%80%93cbs-is-great/]

MMICC: McGill Management International Case Competition

I received and email today from Baris to let me know he has a blog. Baris was one of the stu­dents from Maastricht Uni­ver­sity who com­peted in the MMICC in March this year. His site lead me to Manu’s site who was also part of the Maastricht team. The inter­est­ing thing about the Maastricht team was

Bad Dog

Darl has asked me to set up a Wiki for his cur­rent MGMT 301 (Man­age­ment The­ory & Prac­tice) and MGMT 329 (Advanced The­ory & Prac­tice) classes. Well its done and now the site Bad Dog is up and run­ning. The name of the site came from one of the symbols/characters used in the sim­u­la­tion …

Keane

Last movie of the week­end was Keane. Over­all, I found it slow and overly long (maybe the two are con­nec­ted). Two out of five stars.

The Science of Sleep

So, hav­ing watched “The Method”:http://www.petersmith.org/diary/archives/2006/07/22/the-method.html we rushed down to the Civic for the 21:15 show­ing of “The Sci­ence of Sleep”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354899/. As we were wait­ing for the film to start, I made the com­ment that the seats at the “Civic”:http://www.civictheatre.co.nz/ are much more com­fort­able than those at the “Sky City Theatre”:http://www.skycity.co.nz/. The people sit­ting next to

The Method

One of my favour­ite film genres is “get the guest”. I also enjoy films that have a few twists in the plot. So is it any won­der that I really enjoyed the Span­ish Argen­tinian co-produced “El Metodo”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/ (The Method). I won­der how long it will be before Hol­ly­wood does a remake. At times the film

Animation for kids

It’s going to be a busy week­end. We’re see­ing five movies over the week­end. Today star­ted off with more anim­a­tion at the “film festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz/. The two best films were “Der Propellervogel”:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0490473/ and “Moongirl”:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0482549/. Kazka­heutte was pretty good too. The audi­ence (mainly chil­dren) seemed to enjoy them all (and enjoy them immensely).

The Sharp GX17

I’ve replaced my old phone. My “Nokia 6310″:http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,8764,18177,00.html has been retired. I tend to only use my phone in the car (with a “Blue Ant”:http://www.blueant.com.au/ “car kit”:http://www.blueant.com.au/supertooth2.htm) but I’ve always wanted to use the old Nokia with my laptop. Alas, the bluetooth imple­ment­a­tion on the Nokia seems to be a bit flaky to say the

Wah-Wah

Still at the “festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz … This movie is a semi-autobiographical piece by “Richard E. Grant”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001290/ recounts a his life in Swazi­l­and. Not only did he write the screen play, but he also pro­duced and dir­ec­ted it. Appar­ently, his real mother (played in the movie by “Mir­anda Richardson”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001669/) thought is was a good movie too (if

An Inconvenient Truth

I should start by say­ing (no pun inten­ded) that I was already warm to the idea of global warm­ing. So, this film (doco) about “Al Gore”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore and his cru­sade to inform the world about global warm­ing fell on fer­tile soil. Judging by the applause at the end of the movie, most of the audi­ence were