http://pellacor.com Thoughts about things Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:47:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was flying home on Tuesday night and just before we began our descent into Wellington I was surprised to hear about Air New Zealand’s new recycling policy. Apparently passengers can now do their bit to help the environment by recycling the plastic wrappers of the in-flight sweets. I tried ... http://pellacor.com/2010/03/11/and-all-this-science-i-just-don%e2%80%99t-understand/ The conceptual framework I've used here which looks at the different types of human groups is from some work published in the Harvard Business Review I read this year, which I am sorry to say I can’t find online. But I thought I should come clean that the concepts are ... http://pellacor.com/2009/12/21/and-surely-you%e2%80%99ll-buy-your-pint-cup-and-surely-i%e2%80%99ll-buy-mine/ When I first got back from London in 2005 I met with Mark Harris, then at the SSC, to introduce myself and begin the process of getting in touch with the local Wellington web community. During the meeting I mentioned an anomaly to do with the naming of the government ... http://pellacor.com/2009/12/17/and-somewhere-in-my-mind-i-know-there%e2%80%99s-no-tomorrow/ Depending on how you measure these things, Manchester United is the most successful English Football Club of all time; they are tied for first place with (my beloved) Liverpool for overall number of championships wins (18) but have won 11 FA Cups to the Merseysider’s 7. Manchester United is also ... http://pellacor.com/2009/12/10/glory-glory-man-united/ Communication technology profoundly changes the nature of the relationship between strategic decision makers and the subject of those decisions, typically people, and it’s probably worth taking a few minutes to define those things with more accuracy. An operational decision maker uses facts to makes decisions - a strategic decision maker ... http://pellacor.com/2009/11/02/ict-ends-the-need-for-strategy-p-np/ I proposed to my long term girlfriend, Megan, on Friday night (October 16th 2009) in Molley Malones, the bar we met in on June 25th 2005. She accepted my proposal and we are planning our wedding for Autumn 2011, somewhere in the Otago Lakes district of New Zealand. This is ... http://pellacor.com/2009/10/19/all-i%e2%80%99m-saying-pretty-baby-la-la-love-you-and-don%e2%80%99t-mean-maybe/ I have mentioned before I learned my trade within the field of corporate communications and this post looks at communication issues from an organisational, as opposed to an individual level. About 2.5 billions years ago, in the opening stages of the evolution of life on earth, tiny single celled organism ... http://pellacor.com/2009/09/29/the-boy-in-the-bubble-and-the-baby-with-the-baboon-heart/ Are you sick of the rat race? Do you want that new car? How about that holiday? How about attracting the beautiful people you have always dreamed of. NOW is your chance! Financial freedom is knocking at the door. Are you ready to answer? This is the guaranteed ... http://pellacor.com/2009/09/22/the-service-that-guarantees-your-financial-freedom/ I tweeted this week a point which I thought was important: There's a threat to cloud computing in the form of value add thick client service management (horizontal integration) eg ID management Ben, and Mike responded, but I couldn’t seem to get my point across and trying to explain a view on ... http://pellacor.com/2009/09/10/what-i-couldn%e2%80%99t-fit-into-140-characters/ I spent the afternoon looking through the site at the posts and the comments and wanted to pull a few of my favourites together for the 10th Birthday Celebrations for Metafilter in Wellington. But here’s to you – the Blue, peace and love to all who sail with you. The ... http://pellacor.com/2009/07/18/metafilter%e2%80%99s-10th-birthday/