Leslie Orchard is “automating”:wishlist.https://www.decafbad.com/blog/2004/06/16/wishofthemonthclub1 the process of buying himself things from his Amazon wishlist
Today would have been my father’s 87th birthday. For some reason it seems more important to remember him on this day than on the anniversary of his death – perhaps because the things I remember about him are about life, in particular the things I learnt without knowing – that only now I am learning to recognise in me too.
In “An Evening of Blues and Separateness”:https://bookoflife.blogs.com/welcome/2004/06/blues_and_separ.html Denny Coates writes about his observations at a social event: bq. I’m aware that most of the people I encounter in my world are part of the mainstream, and I departed from that a long time ago. This evening, I was aware that most of these good people were operating from a set of assumptions that I no longer relate to. In the old days, my feeling of separateness might have been called “alienation.
“A Guide to Implementing the Theory of Constraints (TOC)”:https://www.dbrmfg.co.nz/Preface.htm [via “Frank Patrick”:https://www.focusedperformance.com/blogger.html]
“GPS Drawing Gallery”:https://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery.htm [via “The Obvious?”:https://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2004/06/staggering_.html]
“Extreme Programming and the Economics of Flexibility”:https://www.favaro.net/john/home/publications/xpecon.pdf [PDF] via “Agile Business Coach”:https://abc.truemesh.com/
“Knowledge Management in the Real World”:https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001946.php
Ming on “Dreaming”:https://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001280/
Interesting roundup of “broadcatching”:https://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004274.html#more – the impact of web technologies such as RSS(Really Simple Syndication) on broadcasting
“Lilia Efimova”:https://blog.mathemagenic.com/ is writing about her “dream weblog / wiki tool”:https://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/06/08.html#a1233. Some really interesting ideas about how to combine the tools to support her “favoured approach”:https://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/04/08.html#a1160 of blog to capture inital thoughts and wiki to refactor into output documents. I think the only factor I would add would be good support for an integrated drawing tool in both the blog and wiki – many systems-related ideas are much easier to convey in pictures than words…