From time to time, I find myself using some words too frequently. When this happens I turn to Word’s thesaurus (good old F7). Today, I unleashed the awesome power of Micro$oft on ‘broad’, and was rewarded with: bq. Minor road, byroad side street, lane WTF? Then Lisa points out, I’m using the English thesaurus, and …
Sometime ago, “Jeremy Zawodny”:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ published a piece entitled “Desktop Tower Defense Considered Harmful”:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008758.html Well he is right. “Desk Tower Defence”:http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/ is a very addictive flash based game. I’ve finally given up. I never cracked 8000 points, but I did get over 7000. Playing the ‘challenge’ games, I got hooked on the ‘one hundred’, but I’ve …
Well it is only a couple of weeks now until I leave for the “EGOS”:http://www.egosnet.org/ “conference in Vienna”:http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo23/colloquium_2007.shtml. So, this week I plan to download and print all of the articles for the “Strategizing: Activity and Practice”:http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo23/sub_05.shtml stream (i.e. “Strategy-as-practice”:http://www.strategy-as-practice.org/). Unlike many conferences, EGOS has streams which participants are expected to stay with. There is …
At yesterday’s “PhD Club”:http://www.phd.business.auckland.ac.nz/ meeting, “Barbara Grant”:http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/cpd/about/ourpeople/barbaragrant.cfm from the Academic Practice Group of the “Centre for Academic Development”:http://www.cad.auckland.ac.nz/ came along to talk about “*Embedding writing in the PhD process*”:http://phd.business.auckland.ac.nz/node/39. Many people know Barbara; she runs a number of writing retreats (for women) and she has a great ‘rep’ for helping people with their writing. One …
I was tracking down some information on methodology (in particular the work of “J-C Spender”:http://www.jcspender.com/ when I came across his web site. It put me on to a good Org. Theory site, called (unsurprisingly) “OrgTheory”:http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/ Anyway, going back to John-Christopher, one of his best works is: bq. Spender, J.-C. (1989). _Industry recipes: An enquiry into …
I see that “Colin Campbell-Hunt”:http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/Mgmt/staff/ccampbellhunt.html has something new in Human Relations. The full details are: bq. Campbell-Hunt, C. (2007). Complexity in practice. _Human Relations_, 60(5), 793–823. The abstract says: bq. Theories of social practice point to a wide domain of largely tacit social accommodations as the source from which the dynamic structures of social practices …
We went an saw the Oscar winning “The lives of others”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/ this evening. As “Mark Kermode”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kermode said, its good but “Pan’s Labyrinth”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/ is better. Both of these films are well worth seeing.