Just in case you haven’t noted, we are in or are slithering into a recession, depending on what industrial sector you depend on most. Although automobile industry is pretty dominant over here, recession hasn’t hit me personal. But I remember the dot com crash in earlier this millennium very well. My employer went out of [...]
There is a new conference taking place in 2009. You can find the call for paper here. Thing I find most promissing about it is: they actually try to use the quality of presentation technique for deciding on the selection of talks: Einreichungen, die alternative, partizipativere Formate verwenden, werden bevorzugt. Wenn die klassische Vortragsform gewählt [...]
Don’t let you fool by all the christmas greetings! There is work to be done, and to get it done faster it is always a good idea to demotivate people. So here are some tricks to get you going. Don’t tell people what you want. Tell them how to do it. After all you hired [...]