http://andrewboyd.name/blog Just another WordPress egoblog Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:16:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Randy Komisar talked about different CEO styles in The Monk and the Riddle. Basically, it came down to different personality types (a la MBTI/TMI/astrology/etc) that mapped to the stages of a corporation - I paraphrase, but the basic concept was that there are: Phase 1 Starters that are all ideas, excitement ... http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2008/02/27/starting-vs-finishing/ Watch the video, join the forum :) AussiebloggersUploaded by aussiebloggers http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/12/30/aussie-bloggers-forum-the-video/ The day started with Donna and I racing upstairs to open presents at 6:15AM or so like a pair of little kids. We'd planned a day of indulgence - away from keyboards and mundane strife - neither of us usually sit and just watch TV - so the day of ... http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/12/27/and-so-this-is-christmas/ ...slackest blog post ever - a friend mentioned a song today and it got me thinking about my favourites - songs that have marked a change in my life, a time worth remembering for one reason or another. The first one is "Monday" by The Jam: Rainclouds came and stole my ... http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/09/26/favourite-songs/ A friend sent me a link to the Extreme Aerial Bowfishing video. To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about it. In my life, I've been both a farmer of my own food and a conscience-driven vegan (I am currently neither). On one hand, I can see the point ... http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/06/23/not-sure-how-to-feel-about-extreme-aerial-bowfishing/ The internet is a strange and wonderful place. I've been online heavily since 1994 and shouldn't be shocked about anything... this is more from the wierd stuff file than the truly shocking. I present to you... the Lucky Golden Shit: Consumerist.com uses these as awards - they're called Unko in Japan. Hen-ne! http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/06/12/from-the-gotta-have-one-file/ I found out about ezinearticles.com via a Dosh Dosh article on content creation for niche blogs. While ezinearticles.com's layout is a bit 1997, and some of the articles I looked at randomly were landing pages for a product rather than anything educational in and of themselves, I could see that ... http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/06/11/too-many-andrews-or-is-ezinearticlescom-just-braindead/ We're all very 2.0 these days - Library 2.0, Knowledge Worker 2.0, Government 2.0. I face the "a pleasure delayed is a pleasure doubled" vs. "hair-trigger nerd instant gratification syndrome" frustration this morning. The budding blogwar with Anne Zelenka over her comments on Peter Drucker has lost a little steam now ... http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/06/06/delayed-gratification-is-not-20/ An ancestor of mine, Henry Boyd, was one of the first translators of the works of Dante into English. There is a set of his work (Dante's Divine Comedy) at the University of Hull. I haven't read it in years - I will probably create an ebook version of it ... http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/05/28/boyds-dante-translation/ I've been a Tolkien fan for at least 30 years. I read my omnibus volume of Lord of the Rings until it quite literally fell to pieces.  Like many Gen-X geeks I played Dungeons and Dragons and related RPGs. I read The Hobbit to my own children when they were ... http://andrewboyd.name/blog/2007/05/27/children-of-hurin-sadly-boring/