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Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Review of Lessons in Project Management -- Comment()
I today submitted my review (in Finnish) of the book Lessons in Project Management (by Tom Mochal and Jeff Mochal; Apress, 2003). This is a good book, giving 50 practical lessons on problematic situations in managing projects.

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Power, up to a Point: "Some say PowerPoint should be abolished for spreading incomprehensible jargon, while others say they could not survive their working day without it."

Book on solving optimization problems -- Comment()
My textbook on optimization is in press. The book is written in Finnish, and this is the third revised edition. The book is already available on the web in PDF format. Here is the bibliography data for the book:

Optimointitehtävien ratkaiseminen (Solving Optimization Problems).
Juha Haataja.
CSC, 2004. 245 pages, 3rd revised edition.
http://www.csc.fi/oppaat/optimointi/

See the dokument Books on the Web for more of my books on the web.

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Boing Boing Blog points to Screamingly funny lists of 5:

Five ways I tend to feel after speaking with Sprint's Customer Service
1. Like I was just traded to another inmate for 2 packs of menthol cigarettes
2. Like I've been slapped repeatedly with a half-frozen sturgeon
3. Like I've accidentally just agreed to finish the homework of every kid in my middle school
4. Like somewhere in a big Sprint building, there's a fat man with a monocle and a top hat smoking a cigar while dancing a jig and holding a fat bag of five-dollar bills with my bewildered face on it
5. Very, very unclean

It's fortunate that we don't have companies like Sprint here in Finland. Or do we?

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Strung Out by Woody Allen may be the first to use string theory in a humor piece: "What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife."