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Sep 14, 2006 - 9 Photos

well guess where we spend time this weekend

Irony strikes twice, firstly in the fact that some of my friends and I wanted to start something like this in our private time during Wednesday evenings in what we called the Wednesday Evening Club (WEC). Workers is South Africa is sometime pronounced Weckers, so it had a nice ring to it. Anyway we, our company develops fleet management and vehicle telematics systems and we wanted to find a fun way of fusing the real world experience of driving around the world with GPS tracking and a virtual world. This concept is probably still quite novel. And I probably should go ahead and patent it before someone else does. That brings me to the absurd world of patents. I understand that there is a place for it, but there is also an enourmous rediculous loop hole for useless opportunists that cannot invent but knows to steal extant invensions and make a racket and a lot of money in out-of-court settlements. Now that is a virtual reality world I do not want to be part off at all. Another related virtual world is that which Albert Einstein and many other super humans have suffered from and that is the world of not being understood by the real world. Anyway enough of that. So I stumbled upon my second life by catching up on some Google tech videos. If you want to join start here: Let me invite you to Second Life. See you there, my name is Yi Xi. Welcome!

It is amazing how exciting Social Networking is!!! I stumbled upon this service today!!!
I see the Vannebar Bush dream unfolding very rapidly. Many people are in this innovative race against the giants. So to make a short list of these socialistic networking infrastructure providers:

* del.icio.us (*****)
* linkedin (?)
* tagworld (?)
* myspace (?)
* stumbleupon (*****)
* google notebook (*****)

The problem now is that I expect to be able to tag anything on my computer. I am working on a thesis and while I research I need to tag things like I do with little PostIt notes in my books, but I cannot tag in the same way with PDF and Word documents. There must be a fully integrated tagging environment that is transparent. At lease desktop search tools help a hell of a lot to break that barrier between my space and the Internet.

It is a bloody shame how the Da Vinci name could be so abused. Deceitfull shameless bastards. May they drown in their wealth.

Well I guess this is part of the Revelation. Many other religous leaders have fallen in the same way.

Ironically and coincidentally 'uncode' has nothing to do with The Da Vinci Code - just had to make that clear. However I do own the book. When it was first published it sounded interesting so bought it online and had it send to my dad. He read it and wasn't impressed. I though nothing of it. Well he returned the book to me and I still haven't read it, but now the movie is out and Google is promoting it and eventhough I am very curious by nature, I wonder if I could ever be able to cover my eyes and go see it.

Wow! Living in Anticipation explains such an evil that nobody would want to acknowledge it exists. Not only do we train our children to be miserable, we do the same to ourselves. Always hoping, needing more, more, more. When... will my ship come. Read it and weep with me and Vincent Kenny.

I am a little disappointed in Jackson's book "Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers". I was somehow expecting more! However it is a better book than "Creative Problem Solving" and it extends his methodology for Total Systems Intervention by putting it in a even bigger frame and rounding it off with Critical Systems Practice. Yes, it is practical advise, but as he admits in his closing paragraph, it is still very difficult for managers in general to practice the discipline on creative holism by the book. It has to become ingrained in every manager and intuitive (second nature), like Zen.

I doubt that Systems Thinking can self-taught from books alone.

I am currently reading "Rethinking the Fifth Discipline" by Bob Flood, and find it to be a very easy and interesting read. I encourage System Thinkers to read this book after they have read Senge's original Fifth Disciple off course.

I am also going to soon start reading M.C. Jackson's Creative Holism for Managers. It is the most up to date all in one book on Organisational Systems Theory and Systems Thinking.