Jinn of Quality and Risk (2002-Sep-05)

Jinn?

According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.

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Travel, around the world. Sleep, less. Profit, more. Eat, deliciously. Find, a new home.

Bio?

Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant

2002-Sep-05

Ray Ozzie: The most critical thing to optimize is our time. And in order to do that, we need more appropriate technology, not just simpler tech. ... [We need] software that embraces mobility, synchronization, security, and manageability as transparent core attributes. Software that recognizes "people" as being just as important as "documents". Software that recognizes transparent peer communications as being equal in importance to server communications. Software with a new model that synchronizes applications and activities, not just data or documents. We need to use multiple devices as seamlessly as we use one device; we need to be able to use them collaboratively as intuitively as we've used them alone. Yes!

Morning tea notes

Interesting illustrative sentence. Pari passu: PAIR_ee_PASS_oo adv: At an equal pace or rate. Expand the state and its destructive capacity necessarily expands too, pari passu. [Webshots, word of the day]

After some research, I've identified five options to watch TV in the UK: i) aerial antenna, get 4-5 "free" channels; ii) digital receiver for £100 and aerial antenna upgrade (up to £150?), get 14 "free" channels courtesy of the BBC; iii) cable with Telewest, £50 installation and subscription from £18.50 per month, get a bundle of channels and a phone line -- pay about £6-10 per month for each additional specialty channel; iv) satellite with Sky Digital from £16 per month, get a bundle of 65 channels -- or pay £37 per month for their largest bundle; and v) don't watch TV -- what I've done in the past three years. I suppose there should be a sixth option with broadband access to TV channels. In addition to the above costs, a british colour-TV license will set you back £112 per year.

Napster is dead. Long live P2P!

What Is It About British Men? Cheap, Drunk and Stiff Lipped

Since moving to London, my romantic life has been characterized by last-minute text messages, incomprehensible drunkards, first-date coke bingers and split bar tabs, Ms. McLaren, who clearly had better luck at home in Canada, wrote in [The Globe and Mail]. Describing a series of disastrous dates with a series of disastrous men, none of whom laid even a finger on her, she concluded that most English males suffer from glaring sexual insecurity and secretly prefer the company of other men. English women also tend to be incomprehensible drunkards. [NYT via Best of the Web]

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