“The appearance of motion: it’s sad, wouldn’t you say, when this is what American business has come to.”
Robert X. Cringely, from “When Netowkrs Collide: AT&T suddenly doesn’t like Apple so much.” [pbs.org].
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Back once again…
I never posted anything to indicate that I was away so in retrospect I should announce that Candice and I (finally) went on our oft postponed Honeymoon to Italy in November. Thee weeks of Roman and Catholic ruins, good food and wine, and of course more Madonna and Child and Adoration of the Magi paintings than you can shake a stick at… But more on that in the next week or so as I get the photos cleaned up. I’ll save the adventures (and one major mis-adventure) for future posts. In this post it is suffice to say that we are back in action in Singapore.
“In the U.S., there is this brutal workaholic streak and the Americans are much, much more politically correct. The British deal with crises with more of a sense of humor.”
Lucy Kellaway, from The Office: how to negotiate the daily minefield [reuters.com]
Everybody outside the US always tells me I am full of it when I tell them Americans work more hours and take less vacation than anyone else on average. Now here is a Brit backing me up… I think Americans boast about how much they work and how little they sleep. It’s like a badge of honor. I know I have been and am still sometimes guilty of this. I think the Spanish have life figured out and are laughing at the rest of us during their siestas.
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Field of Dreams
This house is really in the middle of the corn field, it’s not a fancy angle or photoshop magic. There is no driveway, it’s corn all the way to the front door. And the back door. And the windows. The house is of course abandoned, I guess they decided it was not worth ripping up the foundation to plant more corn, so they left it and planted corn around it.
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Amateur Security
“We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it’s a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested — even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong… If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur security.”
Bruce Schneier, from “The War on the Unexpected”, Schneier on Security [schneier.com]