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[http://gastonpfvile.blogspot.com/ Gaston Vilé] levert sinds kort ”'[http://lachendeboeddha.nl/ lachende Boeddhabeelden]”’ voor ”’onbezorgde gelukzaligheid”’. Mits we onze eigen ware aard—de Boeddha in onszelf—hebben gevonden natuurlijk.
Gaston, ik wens je veel succes, plezier en onbezorgde gelukzaligheid!
P.S. Is het een idee om elke dag een nieuwe mooie [[boeddhistische wijsheden|boeddhistische wijsheid]] te plaatsen?
To my former creative colleague, while at Sun Microsystems, Wilfred Springer, now at TomTom.
Hi Wilfred,
Seeing on your blog [http://agilejava.com/blog Distributed Reflections of the Third Kind] that you’re still a [http://agilejava.com/blog/?p=112 big fan of DocBook], allow me to pose a question.
I am in the process of writing an extensive pattern language (which I call pareltaal, for a number of reasons). Using a MediaWiki engine really helps a lot and allows collaboration among many to grow such a language. But one big drawback is that it’s easy to lose oversight. It’s hard to see the whole picture, especially with hundreds of patterns.
So, for the time being, I switched to FrameMaker, with its excellent cross reference features and its structured document capability. I’m not using the structured document powers yet, since they have a very steep learning curve for me. But I do see how it might help manage an ever evolving structured but loosely coupled pattern language. And it might also help in creating different views on the same source. Repurposing content, as they say. E.g. just a list of patlets with only the pattern name, problem and solution.
Anyway, I’m looking for a tool that allows collaborative writing and evolution of an extensive pattern language while keeping oversight and creating unlimited views on (parts of) the language. I’d like it to be able to support a ”’lossless bidirectional link between, say, FrameMaker and MediaWiki”’.
Thoughts?
Succes en plezier,
:Martien.
Via [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot]:
:[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/2258242&from=rss Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development]: “slugo writes ‘Internet search giant Google (GOOG) hopes to speed the development of plug-in hybrid cars by giving away millions of dollars to people and companies that have what appear to be practical ways to get plug-in hybrid automobiles to market faster.
:’While many people don’t associate Google with energy, analysts say the fit isn’t all that unnatural. Renewable energy, unlike coal or nuclear, will likely come from thousands or tens of thousands of different locations. Analysts have long said that one of the big challenges will be managing that flow into and out of the nation’s electric grid, and that companies that manage the flow of information are well placed to handle that task.
:[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/2258242&from=rss Read more of this story] at Slashdot.
[[One trillion euro for AardWagen]] may fuel this initiative.
How about rewarding ”’one trillion euro”’ for the first international precompetitive collaboration that produces a vehicle in ten years that improves rather than poverishes our Earth in each and every step of it’s lifecycle?
From original conception to design, manufacturing, use and destruction, AardWagen will make our environment better, more whole, embellish it, enrich it. This requires creative thought and action across the board and must shatter many political and economical barriers.
[[Google already Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development]]. Who’s next to join all powers in a single large worldwide fund to develop AardWagen in an open tournament.
Via [http://slashdot.org Slashdot]:
:[http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/1753257&from=rss Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating ‘Perfect’ Products?]: “Chris M writes “In a recent CNET article, the mobile phone editor writes about what he thinks would make a perfect phone. Unfortunately, as someone in the comments section points out, much of the technology that is used in this concept phone belongs to separate companies. ‘I’m sorry to be the Devil’s Advocate here, but most of those feautres are patented to separate companies. It would require almost all the major manufacturers [working together] to do this, which is highly unlikely.’ Do you think patents are stopping companies from creating ‘perfect’ devices, or are there other factors at work”.
Ah, well, I think they’re absolutely right here. While a tournament fuels innovation, patenting—in order to monopolize a an idea and its implementation—stifles it. Resonates with [[The Truth About Piracy]].
”’Patent something and then make it unconditionally free”’ to be used by anyone and everyone. Heal the world.
Since 2000 or so, I regularly use a Hoshin sheet to jumpstart new projects or business.
Hoshin Kanri has its roots in the 1950s when lectures by Dr. Deming and Dr. Juran in Japan taught the Deming Wheel (PDCA Cycle) and the need to focus on management processes for continuous improvement, including both Breakthrough Management and Daily Management.
Hoshin Kanri is an organising framework for strategic management. It is concerned with four primary tasks:
*it focuses organisation attention on corporate direction by setting, annually, a vital few strategic priorities;
*it aligns these with local plans and programmes;
*it integrates them with daily management, and
*it provides for a structured review of their progress.
More and more companies recognized its value over the 30 years of refinement. Today, ”'[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyota_Way The Toyota Way]”’ resonates very well with the practices of ”’Agile Software Development”’. Joined with ”'[https://martien.aardrock.com/tag/holacracy holacratic] principles”’, government and practices it grows into a very effective leadership instrument.
[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Hoshin Read more on Hoshin Kanri] on AardRock’s Wiki.
In The Truth About Piracy Steve Pavlina puts it bluntly:
:”’is intellectual property a tool for scarcity thinking, or is it a tool for contribution?”’
For me, it’s the latter.
And my biggest fear is that someone takes someone else’s idea, and than monopolizes it. I would claim patents and copyrights in order to avoid just that and make brilliant ideas available to the world at large. Abundance.
Gave Erik Venema a call this morning. Still troubles with version incompatibility between PHP, Plesk, and Virtuozzo. Must be fixed to be safe and secure for real VPS.
Again, patience is golden.
Word from Erik Venema from DutchNet:
:The VPS server will be moved to Amsterdam on Wednesday. We’ll give it a good final test on Thursday so you can have your VPS on Friday.
Well, wish you succes in doing so Erik! Keep me posted please. I’ve been “off-line” for too long now.
Still no fully configured VPS to host my sites on DutchNet. Let’s create a Trouble Ticket to find out about the status…
The complete and total loss of your web host provider (WebHostPlus in my case) does have its advantages: it gives you a clean slate, a void, from where you can start over.
So I did:
*Set up a replica on my PowerBook G4 of everything I had running earlier so I can easily restore and sync on the DutchNet VPS when it becomes available.
*Restored all databases (yes, I do have a daily backup ftp-ed to my local host) and cleaned them up:
**renamed them according to a consistent naming convention;
**UTF-8 the blogs;
**dropped the ones I do not need.
*Configured MediaWiki’s LocalSettings.php so that they all run from a shared directory, using different databases and settings for each separate wiki.
*Find and restore lost images (oops, did not back them up in a single directory; images scattered over several folders on my Mac; Wiki images from others still te recover…).
All this and more took me the larger part of this week.
Korte Emerce update:
*Ongeveer 200 mensen
*Hele goede lezingen van:
**Roger Beekman en André Bouwman van ADK/60 layers of cake over open source.
**Sander Dullaart van Favela Fabric over teruggeven van aandacht, vraaggestuurd aanbod.
**Gert Hans Berghuis van Fabrique over drijfveren en zingeving voor co-creatie, samen met user generated value (i.t.t. user generated content). Ik creëer dus ik besta. Zo inline met Thoughts Become Things van Mike Dooley (van The Secret).
**René Jansen van Winkwaves over afstemmen op persona’s t.b.v. co-creatie.
**Pim Betist van Sell-a-Band; echt super! Ze hebben de eerst vijf artiesten die elk $50k hebben verzameld en nu professioneel aan de slag gaan. Totaal hebben ze $750k in kas, waarvan $500k dit jaar. 3k bands in 8 maanden tijd. You Are The Record Company.
*’k Heb met de meeste sprekers kort gesproken over Aloha en afgesproken een afspraak te maken. Vinden het een interessant concept.
*Aanloop bij de tafel was goed. Stonden lekker in het licht met een spotje erop. Met praatplaat van Dennis op A2 op een tafelezeltje.
*Wouter Boog, Visueel Vertaler van JAM, maakte grafisch verslag van de middag; trok veel aandacht en foto’s voor zowel JAM als Aloha.
*Wouter scant de platen nog in en dan zz we ze op de wiki.
*Emerce zal er ook wel wat mee doen in hun verslag.
*Kreeg nog iemand van WWF (WNF) aan tafel; is bijzonder geïnteresseerd; WWF mogelijk als Aloha Associate?
*Voor verslag, zie
**http://www.emerce.nl/update.jsp?rubriek=1125126&id=1986429 en
**http://www.emerce.nl/update.jsp?rubriek=1125126&id=1986607
Update van de Emerce Update Co-Creatie:
*Ongeveer 200 mensen
*Hele goede lezingen van:
**Roger Beekman en André Bouwman van ADK/60 layers of cake over open source.
**Sander Dullaart van Favela Fabric over teruggeven van aandacht, vraaggestuurd aanbod.
**Gert Hans Berghuis van Fabrique over drijfveren en zingeving voor co-creatie, samen met user generated value (i.t.t. user generated content). Ik creëer dus ik besta. Zo inline met Thoughts Become Things van Mike Dooley (van The Secret).
**René Jansen van Winkwaves over afstemmen op persona’s t.b.v. co-creatie.
**Pim Betist van Sell-a-Band; echt super! Ze hebben de eerst vijf artiesten die elk $50k hebben verzameld en nu professioneel aan de slag gaan. Totaal hebben ze $750k in kas, waarvan $500k dit jaar. 3k bands in 8 maanden tijd. You Are The Record Company.
*’k Heb met de meeste sprekers kort gesproken over Aloha en afgesproken een afspraak te maken. Vinden het een interessant concept.
*Aanloop bij de tafel was goed. Stonden lekker in het licht met een spotje erop. Met praatplaat van Dennis op A2 op een tafelezeltje.
*Wouter Boog, Visueel Vertaler van JAM, maakte grafisch verslag van de middag; trok veel aandacht en foto’s voor zowel JAM als Aloha.
*Wouter scant de platen nog in en dan zz we ze op de wiki.
*Emerce zal er ook wel wat mee doen in hun verslag.
*Kreeg nog iemand van WWF (WNF) aan tafel; is bijzonder geïnteresseerd; WWF mogelijk als Aloha Associate?
*Voor verslag, zie:
**http://www.emerce.nl/update.jsp?rubriek=1125126&id=1986429 en
**http://www.emerce.nl/update.jsp?rubriek=1125126&id=1986607
That’s a quicky. Found [http://www.dutch-net.nl/ DutchNet] to be a friendly, professional and affordable local provider. They’re in Bilthoven, just around the corner of Utrecht, speak Dutch and Linux. Purchased their [http://internet.dutch-net.nl/info/resellers.php Reseller 15] product and was up & running again in a jiffy.
Ah, well, email worked and I had some basic pages on my websites. Still waiting for DutchNet to come up with a full-blown Virtuozzo VPS with ssh and root access so I have complete freedom to restore my wiki and blog databases.
Erik Venema from DutchNet expects full VPS to be operational by the end of this week (Friday, May 18). I wish him well.