Some random images
Here is some image awesomeness I grabbed from former co-worker Nick Heise. Don’t you just want to be in the middle of this hug? Wondering where the highlander trilogy is?
Just a thought
Earth Hour is coming up again. As I mentioned before it is a complete waste of time. Not to mention the money, energy and waste produced in making all that fucking advertising. This earth hour, why don’t you try to do something that might actually make a difference. Park your …
Screw page views? Not quite yet
Chris Berry went on a tear about page views and how they are the “Hits” of the 1990’s and for the most part I would concur. Page Views are not the most useful metric. And he asks, “What is the value of the metric?” mentioning the rise of JQUERY and Flash …
Just when you thought banks couldn’t sink lower
Bank’s suck. No seriously they do. They are behemouth organizations that are slow to change, don’t give a shit about their customers, and are inherently dishonest. All one has to do is look at the current financial mess they have gotten themselves into to see that they were doing something …
Metrics are not a substitute
Andrew Chen posted this interesting piece on A/B split testing: http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/03/02/does-ab-testing-lead-to-crappy-products/ which in turn caused someone in my twitterverse, to comment that metrics are not a substitute for strategy. And he is correct, however metrics can tell you whether your strategy worked or not. They can also help identify gaps in …
Productivity Trilemma, What are you trying to produce
Chris Berry responded to a post that another collegue, Maciek made regarding productivity and cheapening of their product or lowering their labour costs versus niche markets. I think the point that both are trying to make, without actually saying it is that is always about profit. The catch is in ensuring …
Random photos
I am going to leaving my current position at Critical Mass (the word has finally been released). However I though I would share the images I have collected over the past year or so. What the hell did batman do? I swear I have worked with this guy. How fucking …
Perception colors everything
While this isn’t exactly an earth-shattering observation, I have noticed how perception colors everything. It reminds me of a song on Sesame Street – “that’s about the size”. If you notice in our media the enemies are “killed” or “eliminated” while our soldiers are “slain”. The terminology is different because …