http://dreamfish.org.uk I dream of fish Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:12:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog has indeed been in extended and spontaneous hiatus. Nothing is to be gained by explaining why. However, I felt the need to cover the recent Supreme Court ruling [PDF] regarding the gay men seeking asylum in the UK - or more specifically the complete misinformation and even more complete ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2010/07/17/polite-fiction/ I came across this observation on what it is to be a project manager, on the website Herding Cats (which is dedicated to the subject): Project estimating, and project management is hard work. Software development is fun work. Still hard but fun. Project Management is hard work, with almost ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2010/02/09/a-bigger-splash/ Some people have asked me about my electronic document management system (though I often suspect it's a reaction to me going on about it so much). However, the philosophy behind is worth discussing as I consider it to be an example of the principles: the perfect is the enemy of ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2010/02/03/documentary/ I've always loved living in towns and cities (i.e. I've never been a fan of living in some remote village in the country comprising twenty people and as many sheep) and one thing I love most is artificial light. Quite often I wander up to the top of Pewley Down, ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2009/12/10/the-loop/ I came across this blog post on Japanese addresses (there's an associated video that explains it ever better), which was, amongst other things, an exercise in discovering how other cultures do things not only differently but seemingly the complete opposite to what you've taken for granted in your own culture. It ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2009/12/06/homage-to-the-square/ These three images sum up my attitude towards those who don't know sh*t about science and the scientific method but seemingly know everything about its failings (yes, religious people, I'm looking at you too): http://dreamfish.org.uk/2009/11/28/science/ Skeptical Voter: Skeptical Voters believe that evidence should be at the centre of all public policy making. This site intends to identify which parliamentary candidates embrace the use of evidence as a means to inform their decisions and which prefer to obfuscate, ignore or suppress the evidence for political convenience. Not a ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2009/11/17/wisdom-begins-in-wonder/ Via the Herding Cats blog, which is dedicated to innovations in project management (wake up!), I came across the US Department of Energy Project Management Policy and Guidance site which includes a surprisingly good document on earned value management. It's somewhat wordy and the progress reporting templates come across as ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2009/11/03/values-system/ Earlier in the year, when I was working in Holborn, London, I'd often walk back to the station across Waterloo Bridge and down along by the Thames along the South Bank. This one summer day I saw the trees had been wrapped in what seemed to be red material with ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2009/11/01/art-and-culture/ It's just about one year since he died. Technically it was 19th October according to the death certificate (as that's the date he was pronunced dead by the authorities) but I'm convinced it was actually the 17th, and likely only a few hours since I spoke to him on the ... http://dreamfish.org.uk/2009/10/16/memento-mori/