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Joel Spolskyhas an excellent set of brief articles on management styles in IT (focused on software developement, but I believe the comments apply across the board for creative technology[1] roles) They are as follows: Introduction – Three Management Methods The Command and Control Management Method The Econ 101 Management Method The Identity Management Method Worth a read if your management or managed. I work with several ex-military people, where we have a mix of C�C and measurement…I’m still mulling over what that means 🙂

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I’m a multi-window kinda guy, in GNOME you can have it raise the window when cycling throught them alt-tab style, Windows XP doesn’t do this, so when you’ve loads of windows from the same app open (say IE windows for OWA), it can be a pain finding the right window. Apple’s Mac OS X has a neat feature called expose which shows you all your windows at a glance at the press of a button, allowing you to select the one you want.

So your sitting the departure lounge of one of the “silent” airports, like most airports these days are, and all the seats facing the departure screens (the ones telling you which gate to go to..) are full, so you grab a seat else where, whip out the laptop like you were going to anyway, logonto the local WiFi provider, and as part of the service, you get a little ticker telling you about the flights, you could even tell it about your flight so that it only bugs you when your flight is being called!

May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead. You can find more here.

I was travelling back from Paris today, so I checked out of the hotel and headed towards the nearest Metro station to buy a ticket to CDG, actually I was contemplating only getting a ticket as far as Gard du Nord, dropping my bags there and doing a little sight seeing/shopping, when a local (we’ll, I assume he was local..) saw me stuck at the automatic ticket machine. He asked if I was going to the airport and showed me that I could buy a ticket that took me the whole way to CDG, I already knew this, but didn’t fancy trying to explain that I only wanted to go as far as Gard du Nord at this point, so I gratiously accepted his advice and proceeded to try and buy my ticket.

I just spotted a new way of displaying your website hit stats on Corante’s Get Real blog. I soo want one 🙂 I’ve mailed ClustrMaps asking to be added to the beta..here’s hoping they succumb! UPDATE: They succumbed! I’ve just got this great email from Marc @ ClustrMap: Hi, Simon — First of all please let me apologize for the delay in replying to you… we are just catching up on a huge email backlog and I can assure you that our

Near our old office, a man was beaten & stabbed to death, by our new office, another was gunned down. Great eh?

….want to go home, I’m feedup working here…