By definition “six sigma for everyone” is impossible.
(not that i actually bothered to read the back of the book, it might be a cynical comedy)
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
I want to help people solve their problems, not make new ones for them.
Oh dear. I woke up this morning feeling a little unusual, so I phoned work and told them I was ill and not coming in. By lunchtime I was feeling alright and wondering what the problem was…so I went out for a quick walk around town and remembered….hopefully a suitable amount of Lemsip (or replacement – they’ve started putting aspartame into that too, these days) and plenty of sleep will ward off whatever lurgy it is.
I shouldn’t start looking at Wrecked Exotics, should I? Its captivating.
Depressed to hear that post punk junk is closing down too – he’s rather exceeded the bandwidth expectations of his host, who has pulled the plug. He has some kind of service until around friday but with ping times north of 20s I’m not expecting to be doing a lot of downloading (wget is on retry 122 for the Shriekback zip, 60 second timeout). I have a chunk of the music he has posted (but not all of it), so if theres anything that particularly took your fancy let me know and we’ll see if we can find a way to get it to you. Sad to see it go, it was a great source of information and music I wanted to listen to. Lets hope he can find a way to continue it, or at least the spirit of it, in the future.
“So I’m having this dream I’m in a Turbo Z“
Linkblast – Japan special
Biruku, its beer and milk
Make your own elegant gothic lolita outfit
“We can’t depend on the government for everything. We virgins have got to stand up once again and do our bit for the country by tackling the birthrate problem”…very civil minded of them if you ask me.
Linkblast
Schneier on Boston Aqua Teen Hunger Force debacle…these people know something about marketing
The iPhone – Its lipgloss, a condiment dispenser, mace, a cheesegrater, a sonogram…
Museum of unworkable devices (ponders: should there be something similar for software?…anyone who says thats what sourceforge is for gets a poke in the eye)
Crossposting: LJ toy update.
Book review: Vigilance A defence of British Liberty by Ashley Mote
I first picked up this book because of its title. But reading the back of it, it became clear it was a book about Britains relationship with the European Union rather than one examining liberty in Britain. Still a subject about which I am under-informed, so worth a read I thought.
It was soon evident that this is a book written by someone who has a very strong anti European agenda, but I persevered in the hope that it would move on to some interesting information about why I should become anti European too. It didn’t. There is an incredible level of hypocrisy and selective quoting in this book, none of the ‘facts’ presented seems reliable because it has so much spin behind it that I felt I was reading the work of someone who is primarily a politician and also happens to have managed to get a book printed. Everything is viewed in a light of Euro-evil, Brit-good, and with the British economy hooked squarely to the US dollar, which is looking more and more foolish as the days go by.
If anything this book has made me more Euro-friendly, as much to annoy its author as anything else (not that I imagine he would care what someone like me would think, I’m far to left-wing for him to consider me anything but commie scum).
No poll for this one, I’m not going to waste your time.
(2007: book 4, week 5)