Hectic Eclectic

Glasweigan Bird gets burned over the VERY HOT weekend

  Made me smile after the sites of Glasgow's South Side Festival of the weekend.

IBM could reduce its workforce by 299,000 in seven years

IBM has told Personnel Today that it could reduce its workforce from 399,000 today to 100,000 in 2017.2017 is the planned completion date of the completion of its its HR transformation programme.Tim Ringo, head of IBM Human Capital Management, told Personnel Today IBM would re-hire the workers as contractors for specific projects and when necessary use crowdsourcing. He said it was only being considered at present."There would be no buildings costs, no pensions  and no healthcare costs, making huge savings," he said.Sounds like what in India is known as "The Bench."

via www.computerweekly.com

Good old fashioned fun from xkcd.com

 

From the love of maths to the futility of technology...

You can find out more about xkcd here see he's done some stuff for IBM's Smarter Planet - which I like but I suspect someone in IBM's marketing dept will be shot for going this far out there

Snowboarding in Saalbach

Just spent a few days in fine company snowboarding in Saalbach Austria.  Had an absolute ball.  Sore bum from the hill and sore head from the beer but it's all good...

Anyone who thinks this pic is actually me - leave my blog - we can't be friends any more.  I also discovered Mozart's Balls - he sure has tasty balls - not just a composer you know a chef too.... who knew.

I Am Jack’s Overwhelming Sense Of Awe

Picked this up thru Google reader...

Bladerunner still

Another go with the quick blogaroo... Now let's see, if you are naughty I

Just testing my little blog from my berry

Widget... Seems to work ok
I'll try a picture next
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Introducing the G-Point Mouse

This may be the maddest product I've ever seen online... could this top e-bay's flux capacitor?

Check out the article in full

Not what is once was... or so I was recently told

One of my old high schools...  a la Steely Dan

and another... epic

Crayola's Law

It would appear that since 1903 something interesting has been happening over at Crayola land.  It would appear that they've been doubling the pallettes of our youth every 28 years.  Which is really rather nice I think.

Well done Mr Weathersealed and mr Velo of course.

Oh and if you are interested in how colours evolved on computer monitors then you might be interested to check this super-retro web page with some cold hard facts available behind all that glamour.

For some unknown reason this picture made me think of this old track.

Introducing the Google Streetview Snowmobile

Thanks to Lepoland for this one...  tee-hee