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.

Clearly I am not that interested in writing any code as is evident from the lapse of time since my previous post. Or perhaphs, I was just busy... with making a living. Nothing wrong with that. Is there?

I am still keep on uncoding but I realised I need to know much more about it so I am currently doing a post graduate degree in information and knowledge management for which I am currently reading for final exams in a bit more than a week. So I will probably post again only after that.

I am trying out googlepages if you want to help beta testing.

TAKE YOUR MIND SERIOUSLY looks like a nice resource.

Okay so I need to start logging things of note for a rainy day or something like that. Hopefully it will make life more meaningful? More disciplined? I may finally learn to write! And later if I am lucky I will be qualified as an intellectual. Nice.

Anyway the point is that I am on an impossible mission ... a hopeless philosophy ... that in some way writing complex software should be possible by learning more from life and the way nature lives, grows and evolves complex things that are beutiful and ordered ... that just works.

From many perspectives software has achieved a lot of the fundamentals, but we may soon reach the limits of making our clumsy software run on lightning fast hardware. See the software is still in the dark ages. It must catch up now.