Open Urges

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As the International Mystery Writers Festival winds down I have been experiencing urges. With the end in sight I am once again becoming nervous. I am developing an itchy blogging finger (Typing style: Christopher Columbus - Discover and land). Here are a few 'ferinstances' . . .

Mary-Jo Foley reports that Microsoft is going to spend an additional $200 Million in advertising. Now doesn't it strike a person silly that M$ would lay out all that green without having a product to tout? (Tell me they aren't going to spend all that to remind the public just how bad Vista is?)

Head Lemur says he is joining the club . . .

Open Space Technology (OST) is a method to run meetings of groups of any size.

• Whoever comes is the right people - this is meant to alert the participants to the fact that whoever attends a session is "right" simply because they care to be there
• Whatever happens is the only thing that could have - this is meant to tell the attendees to pay attention to what is going on at the moment, instead of worrying about what could possibly be
• Whenever it starts is the right time - clarifies that there is no given schedule or structure and emphasises creativity and innovation
• When it's over, it's over - to tell the participants not to waste time, but move on to something else when the fruitful discussion is over

[ This is like the Zen of Meetings. Brilliant! H/T to Euan for the link. ]

and finally Hugh admits he has made another new mistake . . .

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