So, each week sometimes I'm posting one of my own photos, sized for use on your desktop. Join in by blogging your own photos and include the phrase [grid::blogpaper] in your post - then everyone can google for them.
This week's BlogPaper is called Daffodil:
I've got a huge amount of time for Joel. His attitude to businesss, developers, workspace and more are great, but sometimes he writes something that makes me cringe.
Yesterday, he published the spec for Copilot, codenamed project Aardvark, for the world to see. For that I'm truly greatful - it's always good to see what others are doing.
So, each week I'm posting one of my own photos, sized for use on your desktop. Join in by blogging your own photos and include the phrase [grid::blogpaper] in your post - then everyone can google for them.
This week's BlogPaper is called Swan:
Friday morning at 6.33am my third child arrived. Sam's a big boy, just half an ounce short of ten pounds. Despite this my wife delivered on just gas & air in a little over three and a half hours. Bloody hell she's amazing. She was totally in control the whole time, following the midwife's instructions to the point of managing to not push when told not to...
A colleague of mine has been looking at Folksonomies recently and it's likely to feautre more and more in our work, but his post on Reversed folksonomy is really interesting. This is very much the culture of Silkworm, a networking project I'm involved in.
Something interesting always happens when you look at things backwards. The stuff above is a great example; a number of years ago I was penetration testing (legitimately) and developed the reverse brute force attack for gaining network access - passwords are secret, usernames are known. A brute force attack tries every password against a known name. I gained access by trying a few likely (i.e. probably known) passwords against every possible username. It would be interesting to know just how many online banks would be vulnerable to that?
Euan Semple, the BBC's director of Knowledge Management, says... this
Read this guy's blog, he's good and clearly very professional.
This week's BlogPaper is the only one, so far, that I've altered digitally other than to crop and resize. This was taken in low light with a fast film speed so ended up grainy. I did a simple motion blur ,totally vertical, to blur the grain into vertical stripes.
Anyway, Striped Leaves is below.
:: The names have been changed to protect the innocent
I blogged a while ago on professionalism and received some interesting comments, some encouraging, some less so.
The the other day I was having a deep conversation with a colleague who was upset at having being told he was rather too intense. This got me back to thinking about the best teams I've worked in and what the relationships were like there.
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A few weeks ago I took my boy and a friend, Jake, to Cosford airshow. The cameras went with us and this photo of The Red Arrows Corkscrew was taken by Jake.
So, each week I'm posting one of my own photos, sized for use on your desktop. Join in by bloggin your own photos and include the phrase [grid::blogpaper] in your post - then everyone can google for them.
This week's BlogPaper is called Dry Stone Wall: