Thomas J. Webb’s Ecology Blog

If you speed driving somewhere, you will get there slightly quicker. In any event, of all the things you must do to get there, it’s the one you have the least power to improve (all the more reason “I was caught in traffic” is a lame excuse for being late). You have much more control over that project you were finishing at the last minute before you left, causing you to speed. Or when you woke up.

Swerving around and traffic like a hummingbird through a flowered thicket brings your driving time from 50 minutes down to 45 minutes - congratulations. Or, you could spend just 10 minutes weeding out unnecessary parts of your power point outline, saving you an hour of preparation! (”whew, I don’t have to track down a picture of an Uzbek wedding celebration!”)

Here’s the latest band-collab.net flier. (more…)

Here’s the latest press release for band-collab.net. When I finish additional features (like the note editor), I’ll do more. Gotta toot your own horn, kids.

Band-collab.net Online Music Collaboration Released with WebDAW™

Wrightwood, CA - - 12/8/2007 - - Osaka Red, LLC officially makes band-collab.net, a web-based platform for collaboration between musicians, available to the public. Band-collab.net promises to revolutionize the way musicians work on music, delivering on great as-yet undelivered promises of the internet. (more…)

I’m in a project management class now and what I get from this and other business classes is that humans are like nodes in a Beowulf cluster and organizational goals aren’t easily serialized.. Humans in organizations need to mind-melt so that organizations can run more like a Cray supercomputer.