March 2003

Management Strategy

March 12, 2003

INC. Magazine has a great article this month on open book style management at Atlas Container Corp. Can open book management work in public institutions? Schools? What about within portions of larger companies? Can a small portion of a very large company implement enough elements of open book practices while keeping the corporate types at bay?

Shuttle Probe to Study NASA Communication

March 12, 2003

Reports on the news wires detail how the investigation of the Shuttle tragedy is looking into Communication at NASA. Meanwhile the author of some of the questioning e-mails is coming to the defense of the space agency.

NoteTaker - Great outliner for OS X

March 12, 2003

NoteTaker is a wonderful outliner from AquaMinds. With great navigation and the ability to manage many types of information this tool is rapidly becoming a constant presence on my desktop.

DSL Outage Today

March 12, 2003

A day-long DSL outage is over. Thanks to Qwest many customers in Northern Colorado were without network connections for most of the day. On a seperate note the T1 is up and running. Much faster than DSL.

Ways to detect pseudoscience

March 7, 2003

Robert Park has a great article in the January 31st issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Originally written to address federal judges Park realized the article has a wider audience.

Tired of Bushey Babble

March 6, 2003

Tonight the American public was treated to another round of Bushey Babble. When will the very same leader who illegitimately "won" his seat as the "elected" leader of the American people begin to listen to the people who he supposedly represents?

O'Keefe: Shuttle Wasn't Doomed

March 5, 2003

"Shuttle wasn't doomed" - Finally. Thank you Sean O'Keefe for bringing some common sense to the discussion. Of all the things that have been said since the accident the most disturbing to me were those of Shuttle program director Ron Dittemore that even if the problem had been evident while Columbia was in orbit there was nothing that could have been done to prevent the tradgey.