Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The ideas interview: Charles Tilly

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The ideas interview: Charles Tilly: "There's no point at which you have two candidates, one of them male, one of them female. No discrimination at point of entry; or even promotion. But what you get over time is an invisible structure which is, in effect, discriminatory.'
It's the process, stupid. "

Serving Up the Feedback Sandwich

http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20021100/43serv.html

If you're uncomfortable giving negative feedback, you may want to use a technique commonly referred to as "sandwiching"1 or a feedback sandwich. The basic recipe for a feedback sandwich consists of one specific criticism "sandwiched" between two specific praises

Amazon.com: Books: The Fountainhead

Amazon.com: Books: The Fountainhead

And she is Russian! A guy, sitting next to me on the train ot London Bridge was reading it... Yet another fluke.

Amazon.co.uk: Books: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Amazon.co.uk: Books: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time


todo: a candidate for reading.

orBig Ball of Mud

Big Ball of Mud

The onion-domed Church of the Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat in Moscow is one of Russia's most famous landmarks. It was built by Tsar Ivan IV just outside of the Kremlin walls in 1552 to commemorate Russia's victory over the Tatars at Kazan. The church is better known by it's nickname, St. Basil's. Ivan too is better known by his nickname "Ivan the Terrible". Legend has it that once the cathedral was completed, Ivan, ever true to his reputation, had the architects blinded, so that they could never build anything more beautiful. Alas, the state of software architecture today is such that few of us need fear for our eyesight.

Courtesy of http://stevendwright.home.comcast.net/

A rising tide floats all ships

yet another one to the expression collection.

Stocksatbottom.com - Monthly Insider Commentary

Kefir - Ancient Traditions of the Soviet Staple - Food Reference Website

At last I've re-united with my childhood drink - we've got our own kefir grains and grow our kefir! It's getting better now:)



Kefir - Ancient Traditions of the Soviet Staple - Food
Reference Website

.ogg format

It was pretty frustrating to discover that .gif owners decided to charge the world for royalties. And what delight it was to see how .png has evolved.

Now, in the light of tightening grip on .mp3 control by Fraunhofer: let me introduce the .ogg by http://www.xiph.org/!


And so it goes...

"Killing Me Softly With His Song"

"Killing Me Softly With His Song"

Just discovered: Killing Me Softly With His Song - Lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The Normal Gimbel who wrote Bits and Pieces (The Stuntman, Dusty Springfield).

And - Quincy Jones is involved as well (Song from The McKenna's Gold). Wow.


In good sooth: no random coincedences in this life!..

Useful link: navigation guide in the dll hell

Useful link: navigation guide in the dll hell

http://support.microsoft.com/dllhelp/default.aspx

DLL Help Database

This database contains information about DLL files that are included with selected Microsoft products.

DLL Help exists to help developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals who face file version conflicts with Microsoft software. Use DLL Help to identify the software that installed a specific version of a DLL file.