Rambllings for 2008-06-08

Interesting thought by Steve Jobs Stay hungry... Stay foolish... LOVE IT Data Centre Complexity In my place it costs 3k euros/month to have a box sitting in our in-house data center. Fuckin hilarious... Really just another day at the office for a Tiger? I got rejected by Accenture when I applied for my Singapore internship in 2001. Now a relative who flunked twice in school in in Accenture in India... The fall of standards... Is it a real race for talent? This guy really gets thru the hype The Indian Tiger Again The Globalization Confusion Herman Miller's Clinical Trials Leadership: The USAF Is Lost And Found Now you know... Slashdot | Rubik's Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down to 23 Moves Column inches - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog This would be like paying developers for fixing bugs... Computerworld - GE's Appliance Park still an IT innovator One of the first computers in the US Re-introducing the Air-ship" Nice fantasy. Won't work. What will you do in an airship for 4 days. At least on a cruiseship you can get seasick and have a story to tell A $1.4 Billion Lesson in Standard Work Sorry buddy, this is not about standardisation of work. If you did that nothing would ever get done, because all you would be doing is standardising. Instead, make it easier for people to communicate what they find, and the standards will follow Samaritan Indian hits jackpot in Dubai The customer doesn't care whose fault it is - (37signals) Obama's Drucker-Style Win Its so easy to twist your special interest as the reason for Obama's win. This chap is an MBA wonk who spins it as a Drucker thing... Here's the thing. If Obama looked like an ape like 50 cent, he would have lost. HUGE. Tata, Mahindra to Buy GM's Hummer? If this happens, this will be the height of hubris... just like the Japanese lost buying American brands in the 80s