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December 10, 2010 · 12:19 pm

Brickberries For Breakfast

Single blackberry

I know it’s Friday and, therefore, I’m supposed to be doing a food theme.  Something happened to me yesterday which is food-related in name only but I guess it will have to do because I want to write about it while it’s still fresh in my mind.

I use a Blackberry (that’s as foodie as we’re getting today) as my primary communications device when I leave the office.  Yesterday, as I went into NYC for meetings, I updated an app (Facebook) and rebooted the device as usual.  Done it many times and never an issue.  Except yesterday, when it became a Deadberry.  A Brickberry.  A Blackberry that powered up but wouldn’t boot.  What a day it became and in perspective, what a lesson. Continue reading →

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December 2, 2010 · 1:14 pm

Beyond The Canonical Perspective

Made it myself

Let’s have some fun.  Grab a pen and some paper and draw a cup or a car or a house.  Done?  Great.  There’s this term – canonical perspective.  It comes out of some research first presented in 1981 by a guy named Palmer.  The short version of what he did was to ask folks to draw him something and he found that most people drew the object from the same perspective – slightly above, looking down, and a bit off to either the left or right.  Is that sort of what your drawing looks like?  Well, this point of view has been dubbed the “canonical perspective” and it’s today’s business thought. Continue reading →

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December 1, 2010 · 12:58 pm

Somebody’s Watching Me

I was watching Detroit 187 last night.  It’s a terrific cop show even if it’s a little disconcerting to see Christopher Moltisanti on this side of the law for a change.  The cast is filled with other familiar faces, the plots are consistently good, and I’m becoming a regular viewer.

In last night’s episode, the cops solved a murder the old fashioned way – examining clues and putting the pieces of evidence together into a coherent completed puzzle to unravel what had happened.  This, of course, made me think of the report coming soon from the FCC as well as a few other controversies out there.  Here’s what I mean. Continue reading →

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