iTunes Updated
June 29, 2005Apple has released iTunes 4.9, which includes support for Podcasts (browse, find, sample, subscribe … and sync). I’ve been looking forward to this … I’m downloading now!
Memorable Quotes - Bruce Lee
June 29, 2005It seems like appropriate timing for one of my fave quotes …
If you always put limits on yourself and what you can do, physical or anything, you might as well be dead. It will spread over into your work, your morality, your entire being. There are no limits, only plateaux. But you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. — Bruce Lee
Results are in …
June 27, 2005I got my Black Belt. A big thanks to everyone at Hall’s Taekwondo!
[Update: Here’s a photo!]
Banks for the River
June 25, 2005This quote via Johnnie Moore’s blog is probably taken out of context of the post, but it struck a cord …
“The challenge for a hands-off leader, who doesn’t want to micromanage, is to set some clear boundaries for people to work within, to create some banks for the river to flow in.”
In the absence of any leadership, I’m currently trying to forge my own river banks … otherwise its just a flood plane or swamp lands. Much sand bagging to do yet!
Out of step corporate citizens
June 23, 2005Tony Goodson writes:
I wonder is it just me or is the rest of the world out of step.
You’re not a lone voice on this … I’ve had my fair share of similar ‘corporate’ head-in-the-sand experiences … and I too have met David Brent (remember the guitar episode?). Urghhh!
Tony also writes:
I’m not a corporate person. I don’t take readily to the politics. The pretending. The Emperor having no clothes. And if I see something as wrong I won’t let it go, or bury my head in the sand and take the money.
Here’s a quote, paraphrased, which sums it all up for me … “This world is a far cry from the compliance of the corporate citizen. Collaborative individuals are freed by discontinuity, empowered by knowledge, and driven by values. They collaborate with others because they agree with their values and the joint mission and not because of their commitment to the organisation.”
I wrote in one of my first blog posts that the reason Open Source software is becoming pervasive is because it is driven by values. I’m going to expand my thinking on this … it is not only open source software, but a wider social phenomenon which is manifesting itself in a variety of ways … all made possible by the technologies of co-operation (foss, blogs, podcasting, wiki’s, chat etc.).
Correct me if I’m wrong, but some of the things predicted in the Cluetrain Manifesto are starting to form part of our reality. I think that we really are on the cusp of a revolution — and one can only hope that it’s no longer “business as usual”!
