Author: spierzchala

Tim Bray writes about Mukhtaran Bibi, a Pakistani woman who was sentenced by her tribal council to be gang-raped as punishment for a crime of honour. [here]
NPR had a great story on her on All Things Considered yesterday (audio here).
The US government continues to covet Pakistan as an ally. I agree that religious freedom is a must for any country; however, religious freedom is outweighed by the need to preserve the equality, dignity, and freedom of all individuals.
Update: Tom Watson has a great commentary on this.

Technorati: Pakistan, foreign affairs, diplomacy, Tim Bray, Mukhtaran Bibi

Another Canadian espousing Robertson screws. [here]
We will be send the team to ensure he stops trying to spread this virus to the US.

…and I have heard a rumour that David Allen is adding them to GTD, Merlin and Dave Winer are porting them to MacOSX, SOGrady is building them on Gentoo, and Scoble uses them on his tablet. Kathy Sierra is evangelizing how they make happier screwers (???) and Darren Rowse has pointed out how to optimize your layout to take advantage of Google ScrewSense.
Great. Thanks Seth. Now everyone will want Robertson Screws. One more thing Canadians will lose their exclusive superiority in. Losing hockey was bad enough. Now you want our screws.
Time to move back to Canada, where all cool things — including weather and excluding Nortel and Corel — start.
Seth Godin’s post
My Rant on the Cool Tools post

Technorati: tools, seth godin

The CBC is reporting that the Canadian Armed Forces has held its first official same-sex wedding between two members at a military base in Nova Scotia. [here]
This will send the religious right in the US into a complete conniption fit. I say so what. And congratulations to the happy couple!

Technorati: gay marriage, military, canada, canadian armed forces

Christopher Hawkins posts about the clients that need to be fired, and breaks them into 11 typologies. [here]
This post is in my clippings and I will likely read it again and again. I have seen them all. The question is, can you also apply these typologies to your managers?

Technorati: Consulting, Consultants, Management, Managing

I am going to be in Seattle next week (the longest I-90 commute possible) to do a training at Boeing. I will be in town for two nights June 21 and 22), likely staying near Redmond Town Centre (I know the area and like it).
If any of you Seattle/Microsoft blogger types want to have dinner or after-dinner caffeine, send me an e-mail (see link in right-hand column).
See you soon!

Technorati: Seattle, Microsoft Campus, Redmond

Heh! Chaos and Madness in this tool is there. [here]
Via: GMSV

Geez, Cool Tools is all over “square-drive screws”. [here]
BFD.
For you people in the US, you have missed out on this technological advancement. These screws have been standard issue in Canada for at least 40 years — 85% of the screws sold in Canada are “square-drive”.
Oh, and BTW, they are ROBERTSON screws, not “square-drive”. How lame is “square-drive”?
Another BTW: know how you remove a stripped out Phillips screw? With a Robertson screwdriver.

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lifehack brings us yet another great idea: notepaper as a bookmark. [here]
Before I started using 3X5 index cards, I bought a ahck of 4X6 cards. Turns out that the 4X6 cards don’t fit in the Mead Hipster PDA case (here and here). But now, I think I have found a use for them.
The Hipster PDA Bookmark Kit. Use it like a regular Hipster, but make notes (using chapters and page numbers to track them. When you are done with the book, file the bookmark PDA for that book somewhere so that you can retrieve it later.
Hey, filing it with the book is perhaps the best solution.
Yeehaa! GTD inspiration at 7:45AM on a Monday!

TECHNORATI: GTD, Hipster PDA, Index Cards, Moleskine, lifehack, Organization, Reading