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Wish-of-the-Month Club

Leslie Orchard is “automating”:wishlist.https://www.decafbad.com/blog/2004/06/16/wishofthemonthclub1 the process of buying himself things from his Amazon wishlist

Jack Elve 1917-2000

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.

The Boy Outside the Classroom

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 Theory of Constraints

“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

“GPS Drawing Gallery”:https://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery.htm [via “The Obvious?”:https://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2004/06/staggering_.html]

Keeping Your Options Open

“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

“Knowledge Management in the Real World”:https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001946.php

Ming on Dreaming

Ming on “Dreaming”:https://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001280/

Broadcatching Roundup

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

Dream weblog / wiki tool

“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…