Who’s gonna ‘do’ my hair?
A blog entry like this takes courage. So I’m hoping that your recognition of that fact will go a long way to lessen the humiliation you are going to be tempted to put me through. While this entry may appear to be dealing directly with my vanity, it’s a more serious comment on connectivity in business.
I currently have a dude that ‘does’ my hair. By that I mean consults on what it should look like, and then delivers on the design. It’s been a long relationship. Several years and equally as many salons. You see he’s a bit of a ‘drifter’. Doesn’t last long in any one place. He’s usually forced to leave. Either by those he works with, or his own drive and picture for his career. It’s played havoc on me.
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BBC News reports that Japanese scientists have unveiled their most authentic-looking android yet (read about it 
According to an article in today’s Daily News, ‘Copycats Beware!’ (guess what the article is addressing?) there’s a new angle of attack on those poor people who own intellectual property, who are currently losing zillions and zillions of cash. I wonder how many zillions they’re going to have to lose before they find themselves in financial trouble?
Being part of a Headmasters conference today brought up some interesting talking points, specifically around generations. The teachers were saying that they have found the school kids of today, don’t have heroes. When Grade 10s were set a project to choose a hero, say why and what you could learn from them, most the kids really battled to even get started, and very few finished the project. 
Ever thought what it would be like to start your own business? Whist one would think the government would encourage the establishment of SME’s, which would create employment, which would create stability and so and so on……
Blog + Wiki = a new way to collaborate. 
Tom Peters has just celebrated his sites first birthday. He sums up the power of blogging and the blogging community very well. Check it out on 
SAA’s strike is now dragging on and on and on… It must be seriously inept (and/or arrogant and out-of-touch) management that can allow this to happen – and possibly intransigent and unrealistic Labour officials – asking for 9% pay rises in a climate of 3% inflation (didn’t they do economics 101?). Whatever – its fairly boring now.
I am a huge fan of the 
I’m a Windows user. But not necessarily by choice. More like ‘is there really another option? Windows user’. Sure, Apple is one alternative, and one I’ve considered many times, and come very close to moving to. But what of Linux? Is it really a viable alternative? I struggle to find sites that can answer my questions.
The posting below is from the Gripeline weblog and was posted on Mon 25 Aug. If you want to see the original posting click on this link 
For yet another fascinating example of how the blogging medium is manifesting itself, check out 
It was only a matter of time, and they are fully within their rights. Microsoft are now steping up their efforts to make sure that your copy of Windows is legit. 
“Death and taxes”, the old saying goes, are the only things that are absolutely certain in life. Well, I’d like to suggest that living in the 21st century, there are one or two things that could be added to that list. Its just a matter of time for most people – and the more active you are, the more the odds stack against you.
What did you want to be when you were a child? What profession was it that kept you day-dreaming out of the window in class instead of focussing on what the teacher was saying?
In the Star Workplace, 13 July 2005, “Generation Y” was featured, with nice insights for managers and the corporate world. 
“Popular wisdom holds that you can find anything on the Web. And if you’re looking for information on products, transportation schedules, or tourist attractions, it’s probably true. But there is a vast body of knowledge hidden either in the so-called deep Web that browsers can’t find or in those archaic but wonderful repositories called books.
“If I showed you a 1982 Memphis chair from Italy, you wouldn’t identify it as a product of the Dutch De Stijl movement from 1917, would you? Yet a distressingly large number of 20-year-olds are likely to do just that. In fact, such erroneous readings of designed objects–which speak to us about culture, time, and place through their forms and materials–are becoming the rule, not the exception. This fact made grading design history finals this spring a traumatic experience for me, just as receiving their mediocre grades must have been for the students.
I don’t know where they come from? I don’t know who they are? But somewhere out there, somewhere in the dark spaces of our world, live the Hof people. I get mail from them, and I’ve sent enough of it on, for others to believe that I’ve wandered across to the other side. I have a Hof calendar. I have Hof pictures. I’ve made a paper hofplane. I even have a Hof ring tone. And today, the thing that’s put me over the edge, the reason I’m writting this particular blog is that I got to play Space Hofvaders. You don’t believe me? Check this out 
I read a book review this morning in Wired 
During my daughter’s prize giving on Friday, one of the phrases that jumped out at me was “ The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how you use themâ€?.
There are a few qualities I look for in a book before I refer to it as a great book. Firstly, a great book needs to capture me. I know this happens when I pick up the book first out of the pile of other books I happen to be making my way through. To capture me, it needs to hold my attention – an important thing for an Xer as it is often easier to stop reading than to finish. 
Over the past few months, I have been scracthing my head about this “connection economy” thing. Philosophically and intellectually, I understand it, and it makes perfect sense to me that we are transitioning to this new era. As I read some very clever economists, I am even beginning to think that the underlying economics of supply and demand that have dominated our thinking in the “modern” era (since Adam Smith) may be mutating to something else. The physics of the universe are – with the introduction of quantum understanding. And history shows that when science changes (our understanding of the structure of the universe), it affects our institutions, our philosophies, our economics.
The London Underground is the oldest, busiest (and most expensive) Underground railway in the world. Parts of it have a feeling of having been there forever (they really creak, too). Recently, whilst changing trains at Baker Street station, on the oldest of the lines (“the brown one”), I was intrigued by a sign on the platform that proudly announced that this was the very first Underground station to open in London. The obvious question, of course, is, where did the trains go on the opening day?
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