"Bob Hope had a bad Christmas. He received three golf clubs and only two of them have swimming pools."

"Nearly 25 years ago a former Rhodes scholar and doctor, from an Anglo-Maltese family, had a new theory as to how the brain works. Might it be possible, he asked, to generate new ideas on demand, artificially, instead of waiting around for inspiration? His answer was yes.

"According to Edward de Bono, ... the human brain makes sense of the world by building up patterns based on experience. ... [and] unless you learn to escape from the obvious way of looking at things, you will not develop new ideas. De Bono christened the escape process "lateral thinking" in his book The Use of Lateral Thinking, and he has been working, writing, lecturing on and thinking about the subject ever since.

"Humour is the key to the system. About 10 years ago he added a second insight, Humour was far more important than anyone realised: it was in fact the clue that illustrates the system at work."


"The significance of de Bono's twenty-five year old theory is momentous, universally applicable and dimly realised."

posted by john on 2/20/2005 01:16:00 AM
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Thanks for the tip, jbum

If you need to convert from decimal to hex, or vice versa, you can use a calculator that does decimal to hex conversions.

In windows, the standard "calculator" accessory will do the conversions, if you turn on the "scientific" mode on the menu.

Google will do it as well. Try doing this search on Google:"0xff00ff in decimal""16711935 in hex"

posted by john on 2/9/2005 08:15:57 PM
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery
French aviator, adventurer, and author of "The Little Prince"

posted by john on 2/8/2005 01:18:43 AM
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This is somehow educationally relevant, I assure you:

"Even if I could have a to-do list holographically projected in 3-D floating in front of my face with really cool spaceships battling all around it which was activated via voice command", I still wouldn't be anymore productive.

- "megolomor", a web-design specialist

... harkens back to the key notion in Bill Joy's message in Wired magazine titled "Why the future doesn't need us" - which, to me, was "just because we can does not mean we should."



Funniest thing to happen at an online avatar chat site that I've seen:

...a single user logged in multiple times to this chatrrom and assembled various avatars to make this face.



lmao


posted by john on 2/4/2005 04:12:18 PM
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