In any significant design effort a fundamental part of managing and controlling the design effort is establishing a single entity, independent of the ‘agency of design’ itself in which accountability, responsibility and authority over the design is vested.
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When I Say The Word ‘Preliminary’, This is What I Mean, See?
Posted in Completely Off Topic, Humour, tagged baselines, design maturity, preliminary versus final, systems engineering, technical planning on 08/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
After an interminable discussion with some engineering colleagues as to what was the expection of a design team should be when they saw the word ‘preliminary’, I got fed up and stomped back to my workstation to nail this particular issue to the floor.
The Information Value Law of Tweeting
Posted in Completely Off Topic, Humour, tagged Information theory, Off topic, Twitter on 17/05/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Information theory and Twitter Having observed the behaviour of the twitterverse for some time now I propose the following general law of twitter and information value: The number of twitters on any given subject is inversely proportional to the number of known facts taken to some power. Just thought you’d like to know.
Light this Candle
Posted in Completely Off Topic, tagged Alan Shepard, Mercury 7, Shepards prayer, Spaceflight on 05/05/2011 | Leave a Comment »
What is it, that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle … and wait for someone to light the fuse? On the 5th of May 1961, Alan Shepard was launched from Cape Canaveral Florida, on a sub-orbital mission as the first US manned spaceflight.
Poyehali!!
Posted in Completely Off Topic, tagged Gagarin, space travel, Vostok 1 on 17/04/2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s orbital flight in Vostok 1. Salyut Major Gargarin.
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