Category: Sociological, psychological notes

Aweariness.

Tweeks ago, at this successful! symposium, I noted the developments in the Awareness side of our IRM business. Multiple speakers were onto the subject without hesitating to move beyond the mere annual poster campaign for awareness, and moving into the daily-normal subconscious behavioral change work that was for a long time so much lacking. From ISO 2700x as well.

Which of course is a very, very good thing. Before the 80% of hard work in IRM as such (after discounting the first 80% in hardcore information security), the 80-100% of effort should go into this socio-/psycho-/behavioral fluffy stuff that yields so many benefits and returns. Though we ‘still’ may not be good at it, at least there is development, and leading examples. Thanks, speakers, for that; and for now:
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[Your guess. No, not Paris, Reims; not even Strasbourg and that’s a hint]

On the verge of many breakthroughs

Just to note; my feels are that this piece on scientific analysis on the verge of chaos is an emergent technology for many current applied fields. E.g., analysis of where the Internet of Things will bring us; Singularity or not, or what. And brain analysis obviously in the first place. But also sociologically, I see many applications just beyond the horizons.

And, of course:
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[Somewhat hidden, still a Major Place]

Wired / Tired / Expired, June 2014 edition

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[A mixed bag but me know nothing, I’m from Barcelona Madrid]

So, here’s the June edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag:

WIRED TIRED EXPIRED
#ditchcyber APTs Cyber! Cyber! Cyberthis, cyberthat, cybereverywhere
Most certainly, this is still W.
Maybe shouldn’t have been. But is.		 They were meant to be here to stay.
So they do.		 There’s even an interesting popular song about this!
Mind-controlled bionics / Sensors (tie) IoT / Wearables Weaponised drones / Drones for deliveries
Once these get sorted out, we’re all doomed. Because we’ll not prep our society in advance of quick enough. Fact, from history.
After this, Fukuyama will be right after all.		 All talk, no full-scope delivery. Laggerd panic, these ones.
White asparagus Green asparagus Noma
The ultimate, from the Aragon to Holland reach. Underestimated, neglected, by those who don’t know the product well enough. Not ‘the’ asparagus. Just the typical second choice. Eat your own ants. Exposure of decadence.
Drought in CA CO weed LGBT =
After the tiny snow pack, drought throughout CA and neighbouring states. See the panic. Dude, relax! Done deal, mellow! Equality spreading, overdue, now an unstoppable avalanche. Hence E.
BnpzKOsCMAAQYBm NAkjglc h626FCB52
In its lens- and other forms. Yes there’s innovation in there …! As Coin, still under W, though Overused

OK, any suggestions for next month’s edition ..?

One more on how the @nbacc accountants’lab’ will work in NL

Why am I somewhat convinced that this article is what the results of the accountants’lab’ that is proposed in the Netherlands, will look like. Even when I like the idea! Just not the direction the proposed content of research is taking. Is (this) a lab for deep, methodologically cast-in-concrete but utterly boring science of the history writing kind with drab results that don’t apply in the chaos of the (business) world out there, or is (this) a lab about doing experiments, exploring the unexplored, with results scored on qualitative scales like Innovation and Beauty …?

With a picture because you held out so long reading the above:
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[Yup, the axis going South]

Accountansdiscussie: Start en eind

Als 28 mei @nbacc met @tuacc in de slag gaat, is deze post misschien een hulp, en onderstaande alsnog het resultaat…
Imago accountants
[Parool, zaterdag 24 mei 2014]

Want laten we wel wezen: Een lab voor diepe vaktechniek loopt consequent (if) aan tegen: “Volgens de theorie kan niks hier werken en weten we exact waarom. In de praktijk werkt alles, maar niemand weet hoe. Wij mixen theorie en praktijk.” en ook: ” Laat niet degenen die zeggen dat iets onmogelijk is, in de weg staan van degenen die dat iets al doen.” Succes …

[En dan krijg ik weer te horen dat ik ‘te’ cynisch ben. Cynisme is een laatste poging vooruitgang te bereiken – waar de meeste betrokkenen (?) in apathie afwezig blijven, geestelijk of fysiek. Apathie; de houding van degenen die alle hoop zijn verloren. Nee, dáár ben je blij mee…]

New ton’s theories

OK. Now which parts of his work would you consider unscientific; both by the standards of his time and by your today’s standards…
Because maybe he studied all terrains with comparable rigour, and maybe he found stuff of comparable importance. Who knows…

And, as expected:
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[Viewed this way, less often. Cala at Vale, indeed]

InfoValue, at last ..?

Ah, finally, some depth shows up to have been developed in the field of infonomics. Very, very happy to see that; as you may recall from many previous posts of mine (and from before the very idea of posts, or blogging, or the Internet as such, did exist) I had an urge to find, or (help) develop, methodology in this direction. So there you have it, and there.

I’m happy for today. But will post much more on all sorts of bits and pieces that may spring to mind, in the near future. May even want to create a new category for this.
Anyone out there that already has more on the, say, more hardcore accounting side of this? Much needed!

And oh, of course:
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[Bridge, over as yet untroubled waters, Calatrava of course yes indeed, at Valencia]

Wired / Tired / Expired, May 2014 edition

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[Symbol of …, still in T or moving into E ..?]

So, here’s the May edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews:

WIRED TIRED EXPIRED
Small wine appellations (see below) Microbrews Quasi- but very failed hip beers from global brand breweries
For the discovery of them. See below Most are technically drinkable but no more than gimmicks in taste. Awww, they’re as hip as LOLcats!
French, Italian, Spanish (very) small appellations Eastern European wines New world wines
Côtes de Toul, for one. Various Savoie sub-appellations. Knowing your way around Italy’s appellation-per-village / -anthill landscape. The many (sub)regions in Spain. The better quality Luxembourg reds (and whites). Try them, and be begeistert! (Oh, German – still ever so tending to over-sweetness… jammie US/Aussie taste failure) The very few good ones, they keep for themselves. The easy currency inflow, they dump on us. [Sigh] Apart from a very few, still very boring, boorishly simple.
Teen Twitter Terror Threat Bugs like Heartbleed Snowden et al.
Because the panic. By one tweet. Out of …? What if (among) the others (there) are encoded similar ones..? Dude, that’s sooo 1980-2013 (give or take some years); self-referential. From the Eastern front, no news. (Unless one would count the many same messages and very, very long spun out aftermath. Tire to kill ..?
Back to the absolute multi of multimedia Game of Thrones Mad Men
Back to the explosion of formats to communicate through; i.e., not only social media but all forms blended, off-line, online, text, video, paper, F2F, just anything, mixed ad hoc. Frantically searching for the right format – per sound bite. Yeah, yeah, just kill eachother already. Might have stayed fun when it would have some actual history. The mehhh of series.
Home cooking Street food French. Or pure Thai.
Because, if (!) one can, this is best, in quality of ingredients and control to not have the bad ones of those (e.g., salt… light if any, not tons to extract flavour from bland wholesale stuff). Pure Markets, hipster cooking vans, et al. Watch out, the hoi polloi of wannabe classy but middle-aged mediocre-minded drones are picking up and overflowing the area with passive-agressive bitchiness..! There’s so much more specialised kitchens – that actually are purely themselves, not still simpled-over-to-fake(!)-narrowminded-average tastes.
Home garden vegetables Bio (-dynamic / organic) veggies Plain supermarket veggies
The purity – of pleasure in seeing them grow, in nurturing. Passive-aggressive B12-insufficients, couldn’t feed the tiniest part of the world population if they’d try to roll their methods out beyond their little kindergarten acre. Semi-purified water, supplemented with E-numbers to add flavour.
OK, one more for this month, on the tech side:
Software Defined everything Managed security services SIEM / IAM
Because abstraction is good for business; mixing less under-standing, less overview and more complexity and (hence) much error-proneness (if that is a word). If they weren’t managed already, move over to Little League / Internal or external, what’s the difference ..! (fundamentally) Process nay procedures infrastructure driven by erstwhile point solutions. Yeah, baby, fire up the klesydra!
And a final one, to throw it in here by lack of a better place
Google Now Siri Dragon
Going strong, and working Joked about often enough. May have started to work i.e., not too little anymore, but too late. Same, big time; desktop oriented hence mehhh.

OK, any suggestions for next month’s edition ..?

Maverisk / Étoiles du Nord