November 2005 Archives
FastCompany magazine has published an interesting article on simplicity as a design feature (see The Beauty of Simplicity) and it includes the following truism:
"Technology is this huge blessing because we can do anything with it, and this huge curse because we can do anything with it."
Context is therefore everything.
-
Create an online spreadsheet for free
-
An online suite of office applications
-
Need to share a document? Create it on the web for free.
The world's first (and best) management consultant, Peter Drucker, died last week. He was 95. The Economist has published a lengthy article about him, subtitled "The one management thinker every educated person should read" and I couldn't agree more. Here's the introduction:
ON NOVEMBER 11th, a few days short of his 96th birthday, Peter Drucker died. The most important management thinker of the past century, he wrote about 40 books (the last, “The Effective Executive in Action” will be published in January) and thousands of articles. He was a guru to the world's corporate elite, not just in his native Europe and his adoptive America, but also in Japan and the developing world (one devoted South Korean businessman even changed his first name to Mr Drucker). And he never rested in his mission to persuade the world that management matters—that, in his own rather portentous formula, “Management is the organ of institutions...the organ that converts a mob into an organisation, and human efforts into performance.”
-
What does a young Booker-prize winner do for an encore?
FlightAware.com is a new online US flight tracker. Here's the blurb:
Founded in March of 2005, FlightAware is the first company to offer free flight tracking for both private and commercial air traffic in the United States. FlightAware's proprietory flight arrival time algorithms combined with our powerful, intuitive, and reliable web-based interface yield the most capable and useful flight tracking application on the Internet.
It does seem to provide a wealth of information about each flight and aircraft. The 24-hour animation of US flights is pretty cool.
-
Keyboard shortcuts for Psion PDAs
