Category: observations

Ton’s Interdependent Thoughts: Covey on Management:

“In this interview he declared management of people superfluous. One manages money, stocks, portfolios, and the like, not people. Give people purpose and a course, and then stop interfering with them.

The interview ended with this quote (emphasis mine):

In most organisations there is a lack of trust, and most employees are powerless. In this era of knowledge-workers we still use the industrial model of control, in which we treat people like objects. It is as if we are still practising bloodletting, although we know all about bacteria and how they work.”

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Butterflies and Wheels:

*Results*

* Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.30.
* Your Interference Factor is: 0.20.
* Your Universalising Factor is: 0.00.

*Are you thinking straight about morality?*

There was no inconsistency in the way that you responded to the questions in this activity. You did not evaluate the actions depicted in these scenarios to be across the board wrong. And anyway you indicated that an action can be wrong even if it is entirely private and no one, not even the person doing the act, is harmed by it. So, in fact, had you thought that the acts described here were entirely wrong there would still be no inconsistency in your moral outlook.

Like the Political Compass, I’m in the bottom left quadrant.
Continue reading “what’s taboo for you?”

I installed the Plugin Manager last night while trying to make some more sense of the challenge that is generating XHTML valid pages.

I can’t remember enough of what I have tried to recount the steps: I do know that cleaning up the templates (as previously documented) is essential. A nice addition to your toolchain is “Brad Choate’s latest Textile plugin . . . “:http://www.bradchoate.com/weblog/2004/02/05/textile-tips.

But one benefit is that local wiseguy “JimFl”:http://jimfl.tensegrity.net/eb has packaged up his nifty Zeitgeist module for inclusion in the master plugin directory. the “output it creates”:/movabletype/zeitgeist.html has been one of the top 5 most requested pages on my site since I implemented it.

How does it work? Take a look . . .
Continue reading “MovableType plugin manager, zeitgeist plugin”

I have decided to aggregate all the postings about my ‘learning experience’ in a category with that name.

* a pep talk from my (much) better half today, reminding me that my not being a wage slave has other valuable compensations
* our daughter was playing with some classmates and one threw some playground bark at her. Another gallant brought her over for medical assistance (a wet facecloth and a shoulder) but the best was yet to come. Her brother, out at recess at the same time, noticed her jacket on the ground, and went in search of its owner. When he heard the details, he “went to have a talk with _____.” He was the victim of a thrown punch himself this week, so I think he handled it rather well.
* my day to volunteer at school today and five kids came in without valentines day cards for their classmates. Out of 23, that seemed high, and looking at the kids (my task was to find 23 for each of them from the teacher’s stash and help them sign them all), it’s not obvious there’s a question of need or want, but a question of will. Apologies to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but some of these kids watch entirely too much crap.
* A child’s birthday tomorrow, a 6 year old girl who likes dinosaurs (the fete is at the science museum) but is all girl, no tomboy. The only crossover I see is One Million Years BC. Perhaps not . . . {:)}

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