Keep it Snappy

Keep it Snappy – Why don’t people publishing RSS keep their output to headline and link url, rather than padding it with their entire posting content. Surely the point is to publish the link. That way aggregators contain dense summaries of many links rather than actual content of the most recent few.

Gossip is Closer to the Truth

Did anyone see this article in the FT on 9th April 2003. Needs registration to read. (Links given are www.agsm.unsw.edu.au/eajm/0209/michelson.html and michael.skapinker@ft.com ) Gossip and informal e-mail comms tell us more about the real state of a company than any formal management reports. So what’s new? Michael Skapinker points out that any attempt to formally harness the informal is doomed to kill the goose. See response to the earlier e-mail article from Hewlett-Packard, which recognised the real value in informal e-mail correspondence. Great, completely correct, 100% true, but totally useless ? (As the “Doc” used to remind us junior engineers. Useful = Better than true. True = Merely true, but useless.)

Does consciousness collapse the wave function ?

Does consciousness collapse the wave function ? Now this is far too close to mysticism (Gary ?) according to Dawkins anyway. But I’m not so sure.

Elizabeth Hill, recorded in the same QM2003 proceedings cannot help also invoking Schroedinger [Quote] the major weak point of the arguement being the explanation as to why we have a collective scientific regard so that out of that scientific regard we all see the same thing. [Unquote]

Fujimura [Quote] substance is a series of events [Unquote]

Brian Josephson sees Quantum Reality as “emergent from the metaphors of Chaos and Complexity”. Brian, did you really pooh-pooh my queries about real life chaos this time last year ?