The saga of Christmas for the last couple of decades has involved getting into town by 0600 to collect the […]

In some ways this post does not really exist as I crossed the date line in a westerly direction and […]

There is a form of fatal attraction to a long trip and I must admit to half looking forward to […]

A pretty frantic day of meetings today including a few in one of the best Starbucks in the world, it […]

After yesterday's celebrations we got home in the early evening.  I really should have spent the evening working and packing, […]

After the mental stimulation of six days at Hay (more backfill blogs to come there) and the physical stimulation of […]

An odd and messy sort of day.  I am in the middle of sorting out the study to accommodate the […]

Last night was all a bit traumatic.  I got back in time to take Sheila out for dinner, but then […]

I had a gentle day, the rain was such as to discourage a walk.  I had no conference calls, no […]

There is a British tradition of Boxing Day sporting events and today was no exception for the males in the […]

Over the last decade or so I have established a steady routine on Christmas Eve.  It starts with the good […]

I made the mistake of leaving my iPad in the seat on the flight from Frankfurt this morning which messed […]

I have taken just in time travel and scheduling to a new level over the last twenty four hours.  I […]

So yesterday I landed in Singapore and I'm now in the lounge ready to fly back to the UK and […]

So here we go, another round the world, in this case in 16 days.  The worse of times as well […]

I’ve spent most of the day sat at a computer, aside from a bath, brunch and the final episode of […]

I frequently reference messy coherence as a key aspect of living with complexity and I’ve blogged about it from time […]

I know I promised various people at the Bath seminar material related to abductive narrative research. Its not possible to […]

   Spring is here, and while I am am feeling no impulse to administer toxins to any member of the […]

OK its probably man flu but I am feeling very very sorry for myself; compounded by the fact that when […]

For those of you who don’t know, today is the 60th Anniversary of the longest running soap opera in history. […]

I’ve never understood why various forms of odium are cast on those of us who do our Christmas shopping at […]

A flurry of work this afternoon and the Starbucks mug collection is now fully displayed. Having done that I now […]

From time to time over the past few years, hoping through the Sky Channels late at night I’ve found back […]

If there was ever an argument against intelligent design, its the Giant Panda. Watching the Natural World documentary was a […]

Todays key facts: – Miles driven: 150 – Time taken: 6 hours – Miles of un-gritted road with either black […]

hours in flight – 13.5 hours flight delayed – 1.2 G&Ts to reduce stress – 5 emails cleared from in […]

A five o’clock start today, which is punishing after a nine hour flight from Seattle 24 hours earlier. I realise […]

I managed to compete two out of three writing tasks today. The second part of an article on knowledge management […]

There is something wonderful about having a chalk board to work with. I am teaching a course at the Bluecoat […]

Having resolved last week to get various aspects of my life in some semblance of order I planned the bank […]

I can know something, I can understand something but do I appreciate the implications?

So I am sitting in the lounge at Toronto airport waiting for a flight to Washington. Behind me a fellow […]

I’m pleased to say that I managed to reestablish the habit of daily blogging through July. OK i cheated on […]

Savage Minds in an interesting weekend post argues that the debate between rabid evolutionist-cum atheists and rabid evangelical christians-cum creationists […]

Ten hours to LAX, twelve hours to Auckland and waiting for two hours to Dunedin but it was all worth […]

An outstanding cartoon from the pen of Tom Fishburne, courtesy of Mike Baldwin. Speaks for itself really

To Newcastle today for the Amlin Cup quarter final, and a reminder of the good spirit that pervades Rugby supports […]

As a part of the general sort of the study I have been cataloguing my library. Once upon a time […]

Normal blogging will resume next week, with the completion of the cross silo postings. For the last few weeks something […]

I’m in the lounge at Terminal 1 of Changi Airport waiting to be called for the delayed QF31, my first […]

With KM Asia over for another year I went out for dinner with Patrick Lambe and Graham Durant-Law. Both old […]

Leaving a book you a reading in a hotel is a pain but it happens. However (rather like toast always […]

Given that Sunday will not exist for me (I leave Los Angeles before midnight on Saturday and arrive in Singapore […]

Rob Freeth sent me this link which shows the power of design to change behaviour, where rules and regulations fail. […]

The scare-cars are back. Readers may remember the competition organised by the local schools here in the Kennet Valley to […]

Still one of the greatest ever photographs

Still my all time favourite from Gaping Void. My signed copy arrived today along with three others (all shown below), […]

There is one location in Boston (or rather Cambridge) to which I always return, and from which I never emerge […]

   I spent form just after 1000 this morning until around 1530 sat on this stool with a break for […]

Nightmare journey from Perth to Canberra. a hydraulic leak on an already delaying incoming flight meant we had to wait […]

Setting off on a six week trip (London-Singapore-Perth-Canberra-Melbourne-Broken Hill-Adelaide-Sydney-Chicago-Boston-New York-Pretoria) is never easy, and on this occasion it was made […]

A couple of neat sites came through the twitterverse over the last few days. For Science Fiction fans this interactive […]

I’m a bit behind (well ten days to be accurate) with tidying up the final set of notes I took […]

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m awfully glad I’m […]

I have been subject to a degree of sarcasm about my enthusiasm for a recently acquired work of art which […]

The various “On this day” feeds that come into my RSS feed often show some interesting coincidences. Today for example […]

I’m on the 32nd floor of the Excelsior in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Out of my window I have a […]

Just to warn you, there is no serious intent to this post its just the record of 30 hours now […]

Never a good day, but the BBC’s On this day feed indicates that the 13th February has never been happy. […]

Today started reasonably well. Woke up at 0630 and made first cup of coffee. A quick check online revealed no […]

OK, a trivia question for you: how many people have been capped by Wales at both Rugby and Baseball? Just […]

You have a bad cold, you are 3,000 miles from home and you will not be able to change your […]

For those interested, this makes for interesting reading on some of the darker sides of Wikipedia. Readers may remember my […]

Five examples from just one day in a RSS feed, one of the greatest productivity tools available for the curious […]

The author of this blog has flu and is feeling very sorry for himself; living between Lemsips. He will still […]

For all those who have been amused or appalled by the picture of the Swindon Magic Roundabout (Distributed cognition, complex […]

Lauchlan clears his name, and is evidently upset so my apologies to him

One of the legacies of empire is bureaucracy. The Romans were famous for it, the American Government is notorious for […]

Its been a frantic few days with a whirlwind of presentations in Melbourne and Perth combined with flights and general […]

Waking up at 0330 to drive to Manchester for an early flight to Singapore is no fun. Before you ask […]

I know I had other tasks to complete this morning, but I ended up doing a couple of hours editing […]

My knowledge of mad scientists proved limited. I only managed to scrape by with 50% on this test.

But the Cat keeps his side of the bargain too. He will kill mice and he will be kind to […]

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike […]

On of those email sendings that amuse BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a […]

An interesting meme is going around which presents a list of 100 books. If you have read one then you […]

Every time I come to Washington I am struck by the sense of confidence in the architecture of imperial capitals; […]

It is surely illogical for someone to walk out on you because you suggest that Social Constructivists should wake up […]

Too many days without blogging. I feel I have failed in some way neglecting an important aspect of my life. […]

A bit of a nightmare journey from Seattle. I made the fatal error of arriving at the airport early and […]

I never liked Bush much but now its personal. Air Force One arrived at Heathrow at the same time as […]

I bet you hadn’t heard of that? Well its a variation of triskaidekaphobia – clearer now? Ok triskaidekaphobia is the […]

You swim 200 miles through freezing water and finally reach land, and what do people do? They shoot you. What […]

I am gradually overcoming the shock of realising that not only do we have an office, but we also have […]

Travel is always fascinating. I flew into Los Angeles late last night, got three hours sleep at an airport hotel […]

Carrying on filling in Facebook surveys during idle moments I moved onto Chinese Philosophers and ended up as Lin-Chi (Linji) […]

A new application on Facebook is What French Philosopher are you? I find these things to be addictive and fun […]

For all followers of The Archers, the longest running soap opera in the world and a cultural icon. There is […]

Four and a half hours on Greek roads from Volos to Athens; an aborted takeoff followed by the pilot saying […]

That’s the last time I let someone use by Macbook. Ugg, worse than peanuts in a pub

Having spent three hours either side of midnight getting 7 photographs printed for my daughter’s A level project, you had […]

Having survived the stress of checking a bag into Terminal 5, it popped up on the belt at Malpensa airport […]

Satire is a wonderful thing. Hat tip to Mind Hacks for finding this,

I think I now know why Douglas Adams placed so much importance Shoes. Ever since I can remember my respectable […]

My ironic reference yesterday to Kim’s attempt to scare us with the various ways the world can come to a […]

A great match tonight before a near capacity crowd. Three tries on both sides, outstanding forward play in terrible weather […]

Catching up on email (including some silly stuff on surveys on the ActKM listserv) while listening to the BBC news […]

Last night the food and company were good, I then (rightly) walked the couple of miles back to the hotel […]

My debenture seats in the Millennium Stadium are behind the goal posts so we had a grandstand view of one […]

Two days notice, and a near miss (one third the distance from the earth to the moon). The phrase a […]

Hopefully a portent

Tampa Airport, Florida: free fast internet, excellent Pinot Grigio, short security lines and an upgrade all the way back to […]

Well that explains a lot – should we turn of the wireless network, and jam the neighbors system as well? […]

I wonder if foreknowledge of this event, created the need for the novel form of emigration described here?

By any standards £75 for a weeks internet access is a total and utter rip off. Hotels need to realise […]

Thanks to Jessica

Matthew Hodgson has been pandering to my ego of late, and has now put me on a list to identify […]

Now we know for certain that KM is the latter stages of its life cycle: You can buy all you […]

A nice satire here on the creationist museum Did you know that Unicorns appear nine times in the King James […]

One of the most delightful experiences I know, after a long flight is to be lucky enough to arrive in […]

Nice little test site here although one wonders which undergraduates at which Universities. I tested out a couple of the […]

I am not sure what Kim’s mind was on, but this post on death and the experience of death makes […]

This past weekend my daughter and I were in France for the Rugby. it should have been for Wales V […]

The one off Led Zeppelin reunion concert this November attracted 20m applications for 18k tickets. Croeso is one of the […]

I don’t know if I should be proud or depressed at the travel schedule which resulting in me receiving the […]

C’est Moi after Simsonizing my normal conference photograph and (hopefully) being fairly honest with the answers. It’s probably an improvement […]

I was sitting in an NSF briefing session this morning before acting as a panel member. One member (thankfully not […]

In the period from 12th June to the current date I have spent some 48 hours in Qantas planes, ignoring […]

Farewell to Harry Potter? I bought my copy of the Deathly Hallows after clearing customers at Sydney airport at around […]

I left Atlanta with the knowledge that people I had been working with were about to go downtown and buy […]

Part of my domestic duties today included boxing up various materials from my parents’ former house, to place in my […]

The fact, as reported by the BBC, that we might have found a planet able to sustain life, even if […]

I was catching up on Podcasts of the Phil Adam’s show on Sunday. Australians have a real treasure in Phil […]

Normally arriving at a hotel with this sign on the door would have triggered an allergic reaction. Rather like those […]

Thinking Meat (always one of the highlights of my morning skim of the RSS feeds) has an interesting piece on […]

There is one truly great contribution that the English have made to this world and my enjoyment (yes, this is […]

Another meme, and this time a difficult one. Which five blogs make me think? I get a nasty feeling that […]

This is my final post on the subject of Wales for a period, three in two days is, I think, […]

OK, we have another of these memes going round. This time I have been tagged by Luis Suarez to expose […]

The Google alert I run on my name is a useful way of getting a sense of perspective. I rarely […]

I got up at 0400 this morning to make a breakfast meeting in London with Max Boisot for some intellectual […]

Another one of those addictive survey forms. It was bad enough being Spiderman; now I discover that I am Prolog […]

For those who have not yet seen it, this mission statement generator from Dilbert is scary. Back in the 70’s […]

It’s not long now until I head off for two weeks in Australia and Singapore and I am dreading the […]

Given that it is Christmas, I may (please note may) forgive Patrick for this.

Ron Donaldson of Natural England, one of our most experienced practitioners, recently discovered the use of the Cynefin framework as […]

If there is one thing worse than a speaker reading their slides (especially if they have 100 words per slide), […]

Having spent too much time today dealing with SPAM comments and trackbacks, this quote from Stephen Hawking struck a chord. […]

This morning I had to work on my son’s computer. He dashed off to watch South Africa (hopefully) beat England […]

I should now be in Caracas, but thanks to technical difficulties I am in Madeira, a small Island in the […]

This one has been around for several years now, but it bears repetition. I found it when tidying up some […]

For my many and diverse sins I have become a compulsive collector of Starbucks City Mugs (but only for those […]

We managed to get the whole family to Venice for the past week. Wonderful value in the Venice Card Orange […]

I see that Shawn has confessed his stationery fetishm by demonstrating his new ability to write a name on a […]

The BBC brings news of a fellow Welshman, one Howard Stapleton, who has performed a noble (sic) act by creating […]

After a morning on battle field knowledge systems I returned to my flat to discover that Blue Peter (an institution […]

Yes I did say Turbine, not Turbot. This is a cool idea: in three years it might be commercially viable […]

My thanks to Keith De La Rue over on the ever interesting and eclectic ACT KM Forum for introducing this […]

I was looking up the dictionary definition of incorrigible this morning. I wanted to use it on a list serve […]

The World happiness map has just been published. No it’s not the deranged output of some new aged fluffy bunny […]

While trying to find out how to get a season ticket across competing bus services in Wiltshire (for my daughter […]

Thanks to everyone who sent me other references to the more extreme end of life after my monatomic gold posting […]

This is the 50th entry since I started this blog and I was going to attempt something significant. However I […]

A long time ago, back in the 60’s I got interesting in flying saucers probably because in early pre-teenage they […]

Thanks (sort of) to the Wikipedia for the list of “what happened on this day” – depressing really 79 Mount […]

As some of you know I have a long term stationery fetish. When I was young I used to spend […]

Even in a recently created bureaucracy cultural differences can emerge. Over the last year or so since the US Government […]

I have always argued that there is more to human communication than aural and visual stimulation and that as a […]

and the build up to this is pretty good quoth he, with tongue very firmly in cheek and feeling guilty […]

Scott Adams started in on the subject on the 2nd August but the best has just appeared on line. This […]

Don’t worry I have not joined an end of the world cult, but the Doomsday Book has just gone on […]

Is nothing sacred? Wooky Hole – one of the main tourist attractions near where I live has suffered badly. Firstly […]

In respect of my dislike of Myers-Briggs (see the extended text in the entry below) readers are commended to the […]

Having just discovered that “The Fellowship of the Ring” was published for the first time in the year I was […]