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Design by committee

By ⋅ August 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Why hire someone with expertise, then insist on giving them your ill-informed “feedback”? Well you’ve got to “add value” somehow… If you’ve ever found yourself on the other side of the table to the “resource”, you might find this uncomfortable viewing…

The art of sabotage

By ⋅ August 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Euan Semple’s blog recently featured some advice on how to sabotage a workplace. Recently presented at an Enterprise 2.0 conference, these points were taken from a recently declassified US Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner of the CIA) publication entitled “Simple Sabotage Field Manual“: Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be [...]

Laptop melted in oven

By ⋅ May 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I was walking past Cambridge Computer Resale on Sunday evening when I noticed this laptop in the window. If you click to enlarge the image, you can read how one woman’s efforts to foil would-be burglars went awry after she hid her computer in her oven… and forgot about it. Credit to the shop who [...]

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