Something to read
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Well, it's exam time, so instead of doing what I should be doing I'm doing what I always do - reading as much as I possibly can that isn't related to anything to do with school. This is probably a repost but I thought some of you might be interested: The Art Of War (pdf)[^] After listening to one of the most amazing radio interviews I've ever heard I've started: "Manhattan to Baghdad" by Paul McGeough an Australian war correspondant, an extraordinary but frightening account of Afghanistan -> S11 -> Iraq, which is probably worth at least another thread when I've finished it. Ongoing reading, for the times I'm feeling really low-brow: "Essential Avenger's 1" from Marvel comics
If you can keep you head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts you aim; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Rudyard Kipling
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Well, it's exam time, so instead of doing what I should be doing I'm doing what I always do - reading as much as I possibly can that isn't related to anything to do with school. This is probably a repost but I thought some of you might be interested: The Art Of War (pdf)[^] After listening to one of the most amazing radio interviews I've ever heard I've started: "Manhattan to Baghdad" by Paul McGeough an Australian war correspondant, an extraordinary but frightening account of Afghanistan -> S11 -> Iraq, which is probably worth at least another thread when I've finished it. Ongoing reading, for the times I'm feeling really low-brow: "Essential Avenger's 1" from Marvel comics
If you can keep you head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts you aim; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Rudyard Kipling
I have a paperback copy of 'The Art of War'. It is an interesting book, especially when you compare modern military campaigns to the strategies suggested. Compare WWI strategy to those of Sun Tzu and you'll see how many thousands of people died because the Generals didn't follow Sun Tzu teachings. The book also gives some great tips on dealing with office politics too, or at least some of the suggestions in their have helped me to win a few important victories over sales and marketing. Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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I have a paperback copy of 'The Art of War'. It is an interesting book, especially when you compare modern military campaigns to the strategies suggested. Compare WWI strategy to those of Sun Tzu and you'll see how many thousands of people died because the Generals didn't follow Sun Tzu teachings. The book also gives some great tips on dealing with office politics too, or at least some of the suggestions in their have helped me to win a few important victories over sales and marketing. Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
Michael P Butler wrote: The book also gives some great tips on dealing with office politics too Is your office to be considered a battlefield :~ Had many casualties lately :wtf: ;P Paul ;) I have been afraid always. When you see something insurmountable ahead of you, say to yourself: "All right! I am afraid. Now that I've been properly afraid, let's go forward." That is the whole secret. - Jeanne d'Arc
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Michael P Butler wrote: The book also gives some great tips on dealing with office politics too Is your office to be considered a battlefield :~ Had many casualties lately :wtf: ;P Paul ;) I have been afraid always. When you see something insurmountable ahead of you, say to yourself: "All right! I am afraid. Now that I've been properly afraid, let's go forward." That is the whole secret. - Jeanne d'Arc
Paul van der Walt wrote: Is your office to be considered a battlefield Aren't all offices like a battlefield? Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files" -
Paul van der Walt wrote: Is your office to be considered a battlefield Aren't all offices like a battlefield? Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files" -
Paul van der Walt wrote: Is your office to be considered a battlefield Aren't all offices like a battlefield? Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
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I have a paperback copy of 'The Art of War'. It is an interesting book, especially when you compare modern military campaigns to the strategies suggested. Compare WWI strategy to those of Sun Tzu and you'll see how many thousands of people died because the Generals didn't follow Sun Tzu teachings. The book also gives some great tips on dealing with office politics too, or at least some of the suggestions in their have helped me to win a few important victories over sales and marketing. Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879