Arrived in Sunway.
The start of something new.
House hunting.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
people
To a certain Mr Alexander @ Ah Long.
I just thought I'd use this space to wish you a very Happy 21st Birthday.
Of course a card would've been better, but I figured that it would be nice to be able to come back to this page in the near future and re-read what I wrote to you.
Which wouldn't have been possible if I gave you a card.
Cut a long story short.
Sports was our meeting point.
Talking about anything under the sun, our common ground.
Hanging out, how we wasted time.
Belief in the afterlife, our religious pursuit.
Significance for this one life, our goal.
Being true love, our constant struggle.
In singing, you own me.
Rock on dude.
Maaf Zahir Batin.
"One thing I do, forgetting what is behind, I press on towards the goal for which Christ has called me heavenwards"
I just thought I'd use this space to wish you a very Happy 21st Birthday.
Of course a card would've been better, but I figured that it would be nice to be able to come back to this page in the near future and re-read what I wrote to you.
Which wouldn't have been possible if I gave you a card.
Cut a long story short.
Sports was our meeting point.
Talking about anything under the sun, our common ground.
Hanging out, how we wasted time.
Belief in the afterlife, our religious pursuit.
Significance for this one life, our goal.
Being true love, our constant struggle.
In singing, you own me.
Rock on dude.
Maaf Zahir Batin.
"One thing I do, forgetting what is behind, I press on towards the goal for which Christ has called me heavenwards"
Monday, February 23, 2009
gaberment/prophetic
On Government
We will require more rather than less government in the future.
But what we need is a different form of government.
The greatest threat is damage to the human habitat.
Second only to caring for the environment is the growing need for transnational action
and institutions to abort the return of private armies and stamp out terrorism.
so how does one person fit into the picture.
We will require more rather than less government in the future.
But what we need is a different form of government.
The greatest threat is damage to the human habitat.
Second only to caring for the environment is the growing need for transnational action
and institutions to abort the return of private armies and stamp out terrorism.
so how does one person fit into the picture.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Pork-Barrel State
The government becomes the master of civil society, able to mould and shape it if there are no economic limits to the revenues it can obtain. Through the power of the purse, it can shape society in the politician's image. The fiscal state thus becomes a pork-barrel state.
example from wiki
During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the Gravina Island Bridge (also known as the "Bridge to Nowhere") was cited as an example of pork barrel spending. The bridge, pushed for by Republican Senator Ted Stevens and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, was projected to cost $398 million and would connect the island's 50 residents and the Ketchikan International Airport to Revillagigedo Island and Ketchikan. Palin, who initially supported the project, later stated that she supported a bridge, but not this costly one.
UMS invitational.
example from wiki
During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the Gravina Island Bridge (also known as the "Bridge to Nowhere") was cited as an example of pork barrel spending. The bridge, pushed for by Republican Senator Ted Stevens and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, was projected to cost $398 million and would connect the island's 50 residents and the Ketchikan International Airport to Revillagigedo Island and Ketchikan. Palin, who initially supported the project, later stated that she supported a bridge, but not this costly one.
UMS invitational.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Failure of central planning
Many people now considered rank-and-file will have to become capable of doing management work.
And on all levels, a manager's responsibility and competence, her vision, her capacity to choose between alternate risks, her economic knowledge and skill, her ability to manage managers and to manage worker and work, her competence in making decisions, will be greatly increased.
(I would really like to meet her)
Any society in the era of the new technology would perish miserably were it to attempt to get rid of free management of autonomous enterprise so as to run the economy by central planning.And so would any enterprise that attempted to centralize responsibility and decision making at the top.
It would go under like the great reptiles of the saurian age who attempted to control a huge body by a small, centralized nervous system that could not adapt to rapid change in the environment.
Point of thought:
Hi Daniel, do you micromanage your employees?
Start empowering them by making sure they are trained properly to do their jobs, and then give them responsibility to do it.
Provide room for failure.
And on all levels, a manager's responsibility and competence, her vision, her capacity to choose between alternate risks, her economic knowledge and skill, her ability to manage managers and to manage worker and work, her competence in making decisions, will be greatly increased.
(I would really like to meet her)
Any society in the era of the new technology would perish miserably were it to attempt to get rid of free management of autonomous enterprise so as to run the economy by central planning.And so would any enterprise that attempted to centralize responsibility and decision making at the top.
It would go under like the great reptiles of the saurian age who attempted to control a huge body by a small, centralized nervous system that could not adapt to rapid change in the environment.
Point of thought:
Hi Daniel, do you micromanage your employees?
Start empowering them by making sure they are trained properly to do their jobs, and then give them responsibility to do it.
Provide room for failure.
Friday, February 20, 2009
managerial standards/ Pitas
It can be said that there are no "underdeveloped countries" . There are only "undermanaged ones".
Give and take a hundred and forty years ago, Japan was an underdeveloped country by every material measurement. But, it very quickly produced management of great competence.
This means that management is the prime mover and that development is a consequence. Wherever we only have capital, we have not achieved development. In other words, development is a matter of human energies rather than of economic wealth. And the generation and direction of human energies is the task of management.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Microsoft Sound
In 1994 Microsoft corporation designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Brian Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project. The result – composed by Eno on an Apple MacIntosh computer – was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, the The Microsoft Sound.
In the San Francisco Chronicle he said:
"The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while, and was quite lost, actually, and I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem — Solve it!" The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional", this whole list of adjectives, and then, at the bottom, it said: "and it must be 3¼ seconds long". I thought this was so funny, and an amazing thought, to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made eighty-four pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny, little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds, at the end of this, that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then, when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were, like, three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time."
yep, lifted off entirely from wikipedia
In the San Francisco Chronicle he said:
"The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while, and was quite lost, actually, and I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem — Solve it!" The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional", this whole list of adjectives, and then, at the bottom, it said: "and it must be 3¼ seconds long". I thought this was so funny, and an amazing thought, to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made eighty-four pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny, little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds, at the end of this, that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then, when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were, like, three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time."
yep, lifted off entirely from wikipedia
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Elsevier
Sat in on a teleconferencing session today between kaykay and the US. It was really interesting watching the decision-makers go about doing their stuff. Two of the main people happen to be females-not surprisingly.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Zappos.com
Zappos.com is an electronic commerce company specializing in footwear and is currently based in Henderson, Nevada, USA.
The name Zappos is derived from the Spanish word zapatos, meaning shoes.
These are the ten core values that Zappos.com lives by:
1. Deliver WOW Through Service
2. Embrace and Drive Change
3. Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4. Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5. Pursue Growth and Learning
6. Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7. Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8. Do More With Less
9. Be Passionate and Determined
10. Be Humble
Powered by culture.
I was flipping through a Forbes magazine the other day when I came across this company. And from what I have read, Tony Hsieh (pronounced say) is a genius in creating culture. Amazing.
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