My wife Marilyn and I have got away for the long weekend to Lorne (on the Victorian south-west coast, on the Great Ocean Road). Found a delightful place to stay […]
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The wonders of the English language.
Diplomacy
“A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.” – Caskie Stinnett
Read moreAny noun can be verbed
“I’m sorry sir, that will have to be cloaked”. That’s what the doorman told me as I entered the Hamer Hall for my final visit to a school Presentation night. […]
Read moreAd astra per alia porci
How’s your Latin? I have just read that this was a favourite saying of John Steinbeck. Apparently all of his books carry this insignia. Although I have read a Steinbeck […]
Read moreThe rise of Indian English
I am familiar with Singlish (Singaporean English – “I speak good Singlish, lah?”). On my recent trip to KL I first heard about the Malaysian equivalent – Manglish. But now, […]
Read moreA picture paints 1k words
Here’s the latest thing – Imagini. Discover your “Visual DNA” and “communicate with others in a totally different way.” Looks interesting. It seems to be basically a social networking thing, […]
Read moreNeologism
“Dogmamoron – when an authority’s inflexible principles work against their intent – the dogmatic equivalent of an oxymoron. E.g the ‘war’ on terror.” – Han van Loon, from actKM.
Read moreTranslating humour
A funny thing happened on the way to the office… I was in Sydney two weeks ago, conducting job interviews at our Pitt St office. As I walked in on […]
Read moreThe Humpty Dumpty view of Knowledge
“When I use a word it means exactly what I want it to mean.” – Humpty Dumpty. There has been further discussion at actKM about the definition of “knowledge”. […]
Read moreTying down Knowledge
A contributor at actKM has raised a question about the definition of the word ‘knowledge’ in Knowledge Management. I agree that there is little agreement on this, but my first […]
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