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Friday, December 20, 2002
 

New Hampshire in the rain and ruminations about the job market, XML, Linux, and IT cost reduction     Rain Early

It is no fun driving in torrential rain from Boston to New Hampshire!  But I drove slowly and got a lot of thinking done, however, about XML, software development, open source software, and the kind of business I want to create.   Over the past two weeks, a contingency recruiter who wanted to work with me called over 70 companies to see if they needed someone in knowledge management.   He called consulting firms and law firms and no one wanted to hire someone in a leadership position in knowledge management.   Now maybe he  did not know how to describe the value that I could add, but no one responded positively.   I am wondering if knowledge management is a tired concept.

The business that I may create, if I can build enough momentum is focused on content management, knowledge management with a primary focus on dramatic cost reductions by transforming the content management processes, transforming the applications, using XML, and running the apps on low cost linux systems maybe using grid computing rather than on high cost windows based systems or proprietary software like Lotus Notes.

After the drive, I relaxed and watched “The City of Lost Children”.


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La Cite des Enfants Perdu; The City of Lost Children  (you can tell I love the visuals)

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Tonight, on our cinematic Christmas tour de force, we saw "La Cite des Enfant Perdus"  a movie that I unfortunately did not know about.  It is an extrordinary movie of nightmarish images.  "That mastery of imagery and montage is what keeps Jeunet and Caro's film from being a mere clutter of dazzling images. The City of Lost Children is something of a fable set in a city in either the future or an alternate reality. The movie has to do with a scientist named Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who is aging prematurely because he lacks the ability to dream. Fighting to reverse the aging process, he sends his blind minions out to kidnap the city's most potent dreamers—the children—and bring them back so he can invade the children's dreams and make them his own."

After seeing this movie I am fascinated by the films of  Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.   Most recently Jean-Pierre Jeunet create Amélie, another of my recent favorite movies.   Researching the film makers I found they also did Delicatessen (1991), a cult favorite in France which presents a post-apocalyptic black comedy about cannibalism!   What a treat!  :)


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