Blog posts
These posts started out as rather normal blog-like entries. Nowadays, they contain my writings on the things I find interesting.
2023
28 May
Stowaway in Tenby, Wales
27 May
Coffee #1 in Newport, Wales
23 May
Bake and Brew in Gloucester, Gloucestershire
07 May
The Elefant weg
10 Apr
Hot chocolate at Milch Bar
08 Apr
John Baker in Zürich
07 Apr
In Zürich
01 Apr
Coffee at Bluebottle Coffee in the Bradley Building
18 Feb
Big Sur cafe in Grey Lynn
11 Feb
Lunch at Brothers Brewer, Mt Eden
07 Feb
Tip Top Factory tour - Sylvia Park
31 Jan
My site in history
28 Jan
SSL Certificates
27 Jan
Cold rice pudding with apples
27 Jan
The transformative power of sabbaticals
26 Jan
Added backlinks
25 Jan
Adding updates to a page
25 Jan
Free ice cream at Flower Street
25 Jan
Publishing in managment education
22 Jan
Olympic Park in New Lynn
19 Jan
Figure shortcode (again)
15 Jan
A gallery
11 Jan
Ali’i Coffee in Honolulu
10 Jan
Waikiki Beach in Honolulu
08 Jan
TRY Coffee in Honolulu
06 Jan
Luau at HICSS56, the Hyatt Resort & Spa
05 Jan
Tacos at Honoapiilani Food Truck Park in Kaanapali
02 Jan
Lunch at Kusina Ni Jayboy, Lahania
01 Jan
Departures at Honolulu airport
01 Jan
Auckland International Airport
2022
23 Dec
PYO at Zakberry Farms, Waitākere
22 Dec
Next notebook
22 Dec
Ice cream from Mr Whippy in Newton
22 Dec
Coffee at Coffee Pen in Mt Eden
17 Dec
Responsive graphics
17 Dec
EXIF orientation
16 Dec
Coffee at Daily Daily on K’Road
15 Dec
Next Gen gym in the CBD
15 Dec
Checking with check-ins
15 Dec
Coffee at Allpress in Ponsonby
14 Dec
Coffee at Goodness Gracious
13 Dec
Coffee at Fluffy in Newton
13 Dec
Red Rabbit coffee in Newmarket
13 Dec
The Lego Store in Newmarket
13 Dec
Westfield Mall in Newmarket
12 Dec
Posts by month, again
10 Dec
Zettelkasten
09 Dec
Here to stay?
09 Dec
Twitter-dead
10 Jun
Nordvpn
08 Jun
Docker
28 Mar
Four thousand weeks
28 Mar
My personal learning environment
09 Feb
Hugo directory structure
23 Jan
Caran d'Ache 849
14 Jan
Hugo and JSON
12 Jan
Content structure
10 Jan
Third steps to IndieWeb
06 Jan
Second second steps in IndieWeb
04 Jan
Staedtler Resina
04 Jan
Responsive grids
03 Jan
New theme progress
01 Jan
Another new theme
2021
27 Dec
Organizing orgmode
18 Dec
Elisp for Hugo
18 Dec
Bye bye Confluence
15 Dec
Images and page bundles
12 Dec
Of tags and categories
27 Oct
Posts by month
15 Oct
Harnessing the diversity of strategy-as-practice research
15 Oct
Emacs and macrons: A bit better typograghy
14 Oct
Second Steps in IndieWeb
07 Oct
Calendars and MS Exchange, again
07 Oct
First Steps to IndieWeb
07 Jun
More Hugo automation
07 Jun
Automating Hugo
22 May
Calendars with MS Exchange and Orgmode: Across the great divide
2020
07 Oct
Disposable assignments: Are they really better
27 Sep
Dead drive
19 Sep
Modus Operandi: A new theme
09 Sep
Pace chart
09 Sep
Synchronous teaching: Is it really better?
06 Sep
A refresh: Back to paper
24 Aug
Face-to-face contact in teaching: Some lessons
21 Jul
Markingdown markdown: Moving to orgmode
15 May
iCalendar woes
08 Apr
External protocols
26 Mar
Windows 10
08 Mar
Git to it
07 Mar
Glillani - Chapter 1
07 Mar
Time to pivot
2019
08 Oct
Thinking about capstone courses
07 Oct
Of mountaintops, magnets, and mandates
30 May
Design for learning
2018
02 Sep
Crazy Rich Asians
30 Aug
Market shaping
28 Aug
Literature reviews
23 Aug
The git go
16 Aug
Group assessment
22 Jul
Doing strategy
08 Jul
Joe Luger on Learning
15 Jun
Moved to Netlify
14 Jun
TinyTex
13 Jun
SVG to PDF
10 Jun
Letsencrypt
24 May
Ubiquiti installation
21 May
Eye candy
21 May
Faster internet
14 May
Reflection
03 Apr
Pilot MR
2017
04 Dec
Knowing how, knowing that, and knowing what
02 Dec
Bye bye Synology
06 Aug
Mason and Mitroff
03 Aug
Hugo archetypes
03 Aug
Blogging platforms
16 Jun
Listing GMail folders
15 Jun
Visas and social media
12 Jun
Smashrun 2 blog
08 Jun
Bye bye Facebook
31 May
Citations in bookdown
31 May
Mime types on AWS S3
25 May
CourseGuide.Info
17 May
Lecturing
16 May
Pecking order
14 May
Course (re)design
09 May
Persuasive technology
08 May
Bye bye g-suite
21 Apr
Learning through play
18 Apr
Student engagement
09 Apr
Responsibility and capability
08 Apr
IBM design thinking
03 Apr
Design-less thinking
06 Mar
Assessment
08 Feb
FreeBSD on a Dell E7450
05 Jan
Hanging idents in APA
2016
21 Dec
Beyond the LMS
13 Dec
Transcribing stuff
11 Dec
Hugo and AWS/S3
06 Dec
Hogging the CPU: Pandoc-crossref is slow
27 Nov
Link rot
25 Nov
Rstudio Server
21 Nov
Automating Hugo part 2
21 Nov
Automating Hugo
18 Nov
A new theme
16 Nov
Sizing coffee
11 Nov
Academic workflow
18 Oct
Minion Pro
12 Oct
Crunching numbers
10 Oct
Back to work
29 Sep
Teaching excellence award
08 Jun
Project Scribe
02 Jun
Theoretical description
24 May
Performance reviews
23 May
Write that article
26 Mar
Autonomous cars
23 Mar
Going live
16 Mar
ISPIM 2016
15 Mar
More static
15 Mar
From Pelican to Hugo
2015
30 Nov
My bad
29 Nov
Pelican problems
29 Nov
Kirikiriroa
21 Nov
Synology, chown and Google Drive
20 Nov
Spreading the news
20 Nov
One ring to rule them all
15 Nov
Specter
13 Nov
Hudson and Halls live!
03 Nov
Farewell Daily Mile
01 Nov
The Auckland marathon #4
26 Sep
Running with ASICS
18 Sep
Teaching lunch
25 Aug
A fork in the road
13 Aug
What I look for in a learning journal
13 Aug
Feedback to team members
10 Aug
Brown smarties
14 Jul
Coffee talk
14 Jul
Looking forward to semester 2
30 Apr
Kickoff videos
12 Apr
Reading and chunking
05 Apr
Kick-off videos
03 Apr
Windows 8.1
27 Feb
A brand new day
21 Feb
Grice and conversation
21 Feb
Spreading the word
26 Jan
Using fabric
25 Jan
Google drive
15 Jan
Risk and innovation
2014
31 Dec
WordPress paranoia
26 Dec
Re-converting
25 Dec
A walk on the beach
20 Dec
Looking ahead to 2016
18 Dec
Pelican conversion notes
18 Dec
So many ISPs
17 Dec
Posting to Pelican
17 Dec
A little automation
13 Dec
A static site
23 Jul
Well, that didn't go quite as expected
16 Jul
Graduate Profiles and Curriculum Mapping
16 May
Running goals for 2014
27 Mar
Open Access Journals
27 Mar
AdWords
26 Mar
The use of social media
26 Mar
Finding the critical issue
24 Mar
Thinking about signature pedagogies
24 Mar
Some might call it andragogy
15 Mar
Piazza
13 Mar
Whoosh
13 Mar
Defining learning
10 Mar
Reasons for reviewing
08 Mar
Towards a clearer purpose
07 Mar
Reflective practice
06 Mar
Learning, Teaching and Assessment
2013
22 Nov
Integration with Google+
19 Nov
A consideration of learning and PowerPoint
01 Jun
Creaming it
01 Jun
The cutting edge
11 Jan
Highlighting learning
2012
13 Nov
Fitness assessment
19 Jul
The spiral of experiential learning
17 Jul
Cry havoc and unleash the dogs of war
11 Jul
Bad Dog (redux)
25 Jun
PhD tick
16 May
Running history
15 May
Powerpoint and practice
21 Mar
Business policy and nGrams
03 Feb
VO2 max
14 Jan
Lewin and Change
2011
16 Dec
Picking up the pace
16 Dec
PhD progress
05 Dec
Run less, run faster
20 Nov
It's all downhill (not)
31 Oct
Auckland marathon 2011
27 Oct
Walk for Isobella and EB
11 Oct
My BHAG
29 Sep
Traffic and Ramblings
14 Sep
Just do it
12 Sep
Run Auckland
28 Aug
North Shore marathon
30 May
Run Auckland: Race 3
22 May
Huntly Half
02 May
Peer Evaluations
19 Apr
Run Auckland: Race 2
12 Apr
PBs and PRs
06 Apr
Zotero and commas
03 Apr
Multitasking
02 Apr
Before and after
28 Mar
Run Auckland: Race 1
15 Mar
DOI
15 Mar
Academics are still practitioners
15 Mar
Prescription for textbooks
10 Mar
Practitioners
05 Mar
How to write an article
05 Mar
The paragraph
03 Mar
Boots and all
27 Feb
Yale on writing
13 Feb
Decision-making expertise
02 Feb
Academic articles
29 Jan
How to read a paper
07 Jan
Reviewing articles
03 Jan
Wordpress
02 Jan
Hydration (Part 2)
2010
31 Dec
Hydration
30 Dec
Replacing running shoes
17 Dec
Lisa Callagher (soon to be PhD)
10 Dec
Our new house
01 Dec
Why I run
01 Nov
Auckland Marathon
12 Sep
Running buddies
03 Jul
Pulled pork (cochinita pibil)
27 Jun
Videon or Vide-gone
14 Mar
Around the bays
26 Jan
Ten years to master ...
21 Jan
Strategy as practice
19 Jan
Orgmode: Part 2
17 Jan
Orgmode: Part 1
10 Jan
Displaying time-series data
07 Jan
Zotero tips
04 Jan
Relating to relatedness
04 Jan
The economics of textbook
2009
24 Dec
Alt-MBA
23 Dec
Tips for Zotero
22 Dec
Referring to Referencite
22 Dec
Referencing here and now
22 Dec
Whither learning styles?
21 Dec
Group projects
18 Dec
Using PDF files in nVivo 8
16 Dec
MathTran
16 Dec
My personal learning environment
16 Dec
Dealing with plagiarism in the digital age
13 Dec
Research as a second language
03 Dec
Learning and knowing
03 Dec
Templates and styles
03 Dec
The first entry
03 Dec
The separation of powers
21 Oct
Greys Avenue Deli
08 Sep
Jogging
05 Sep
Grading
21 Aug
Under pressure
17 Aug
Farewelling a fine feline friend, Fred
08 Aug
The journey continues
08 Jun
A vision of students ... tomorrow
03 Apr
A vision of students
04 Mar
Walking the dogs
04 Mar
Academic brand
03 Mar
Zotero 1.5 beta
03 Mar
Facebook's terms of service
10 Feb
SCP Framework
16 Jan
From Outlook to Gmail
11 Jan
Reading my Maildir
11 Jan
Gmail and backups
2008
24 Nov
Communities of practice
01 Nov
A2 Hosting
29 Oct
Discuss
25 Oct
Time Management for Anarchists
18 Oct
Operational effectiveness: Necessary but not sufficient
09 Oct
Videos in PowerPoint
02 Oct
The BCG Matrix
01 Oct
Playing with game theory
01 Oct
Zotero and Thompson-Reuters
25 Sep
Reviewing
22 Sep
Academic Productivity
20 Sep
Moving to Zotero
14 Sep
Re-inventing the wheel
11 Sep
Does it make the boat go faster
09 Sep
Commenting
09 Sep
Trajan
08 Sep
National League Case Competition
08 Sep
Team-based learning
08 Sep
Transcription symbols used in conversation analysis
08 Sep
Alt Code characters
07 Sep
PhD Topic
07 Sep
Back to work
05 Sep
Templates and styles
04 Sep
Team-based learning
01 Sep
Blogs about academic life
09 Aug
Manager Tools and Facebook
06 Aug
A desire to be assessed
06 Aug
Yet another upgrade
24 Jul
Foundations of strategy
18 Jul
Interesting place to visit
18 Jul
Google mail
18 Jul
Slideshare
24 Jun
Self review of INTBUS 202
16 Jun
Judgement
16 Jun
Times they are a changin' (part 2)
11 Jun
Judgement
25 May
Power Outage
19 May
Free at last
04 May
That hurt
03 May
Scribefire
13 Apr
Zotero
12 Feb
Remembering a Ginger cat
2007
31 Dec
Looking forward
14 Nov
What would you do?
18 Oct
Aesthetics and Practice
17 Oct
Saku Mantere
27 Sep
Words
24 Sep
Private Equity
24 Sep
More about Orcon
23 Sep
No so 'high speed' Internet
16 Sep
This is not about Giles Burch
14 Sep
The Pillowman
01 Sep
Django revisited
01 Sep
The Structure of Information Networks
05 Aug
Ask Bill Smith
31 Jul
The Army in Northern Island
22 Jul
Genealogy
22 Jul
Team Cru Vin Dogs
10 Jun
Doh!
10 Jun
Desktop tower defence
10 Jun
EGOS 2007
07 Jun
Fast writing
05 Jun
Industry Recipes
04 Jun
Complexity in practice
03 Jun
The Lives of Others
24 Mar
Cholesterol checkup
24 Mar
Course Syllabus
08 Mar
How to get rich quickly
08 Mar
Economics and Business: Why rate rises won't work
06 Mar
Choosing among projects of action
04 Mar
Redirections
28 Feb
Tony Seba
23 Feb
Bad Dog
18 Feb
AMBA
17 Feb
Under the Grand Chapiteau
29 Jan
Teaching Management
14 Jan
The copycat syndrome: Plagiarists at work
14 Jan
Sunday squash
12 Jan
Approaches to research
2006
31 Dec
A new host
15 Oct
Blogging platforms
12 Oct
Setting assignments
07 Oct
Average Grades--The average of grades
01 Oct
Porting from MovableType to a Django powered blog
08 Sep
A new site
30 Jul
How much do you love me?
30 Jul
Manager Tools
29 Jul
The Dean of CBS
29 Jul
MMICC: McGill Management International Case Competition
28 Jul
Bad Dog
23 Jul
Keane
22 Jul
The Science of Sleep
22 Jul
The Method
22 Jul
Animation for kids
21 Jul
The Sharp GX17
21 Jul
Wah-Wah
19 Jul
An Inconvenient Truth
18 Jul
Tristram Shandy: A cock and bull story
17 Jul
Getting things done
16 Jul
Animation Now
15 Jul
MBA Drinks
15 Jul
A blogging I will go
04 May
WikiText
04 May
Journalling
22 Apr
Grading
19 Apr
Strategic Value
19 Apr
Structure and value
08 Apr
A few new projects
05 Apr
Argentina
06 Mar
Back to the future
2005
27 Dec
More upgrades
26 Dec
Upgrades
31 Oct
That's interesting
25 Oct
Telecom - Customer Service of the year (Yeah. Right!)
23 Oct
Getting things done
04 Aug
Columbus Coffee
02 Aug
Yet another check up
16 Jun
Born free
13 Jun
Understanding strategic change: The contribution of archetypes
11 Jun
An ideal husband
09 Jun
Frameworks revisited
06 Jun
Why people come to this site
06 Jun
My Web Sites on MSN
04 Jun
Some problems in market distribution
29 May
Still walking after all this time
25 May
Frameworks
12 May
Hooked on audio books
12 May
The quality of research 'packages'
28 Apr
Wagamama
09 Apr
MBA Reunion
22 Mar
Recording on the iPod
20 Mar
Reciprocal business. Part 2
20 Mar
Reciprocal business. Part 1
09 Mar
Alive, alive 'o
24 Jan
The exam
24 Jan
Questions from MGMT 101 students
2004
10 Dec
Teaching Excellence Award
09 Dec
Comments on supervision
08 Dec
Professional Doctorates
08 Dec
ANZAM - Strategising activity and practice
17 Nov
Times, they are a'changing
15 Nov
Answering the question
09 Nov
Planning for next year
08 Nov
Sounding out a research site
05 Nov
Patterns in the sand
01 Nov
Cholesterol still a bit low (and high)
26 Oct
Another fitness assessment
23 Oct
Carl Zeiss Jena (part III)
23 Oct
The women
22 Oct
Never can say goodbye
22 Oct
More on Carl Zeiss Jena
21 Oct
CZJ - Case Analysis
15 Oct
Carl Zeiss Jena
15 Oct
The last weekend
12 Oct
Online journals
11 Oct
The good, the bad, and the ugly
01 Oct
The rise and fall of the Enron empire?
01 Oct
Keeping to the point (what was the point anyway?)
23 Sep
Novices and experts
22 Sep
Leadership and Supermen
21 Sep
Confronting the brutal truth
18 Sep
The buck stops where?
17 Sep
A variation on the prisoner's dilemma
13 Sep
Commerce Act 1986
12 Sep
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf
09 Sep
Politics and the English Language
07 Sep
Western and Eastern thought
07 Sep
Some notes on institutional fields
07 Sep
Strategic management and the philosophy of science
01 Sep
Discussion forums
31 Aug
Yippe and Taking a break
27 Aug
Is the class still improving
26 Aug
Selected sound bites
25 Aug
Crafting and executing strategy
25 Aug
What use is theory?
24 Aug
The class is improving
23 Aug
Journal grades so far
17 Aug
Tisdalls - shop of the year
13 Aug
Chatting with Chintaka
12 Aug
Vinnies
11 Aug
Why do you blog?
11 Aug
Self-sealing behaviour
10 Aug
CEO Summit
10 Aug
MECE
08 Aug
Sociodrama and sociometry
06 Aug
The canon of creativity
06 Aug
Still doing cases
05 Aug
Becoming a strategist: Branson's Virgin
05 Aug
Formal analysis in strategic decisions
04 Aug
The starting position
04 Aug
Globalization
03 Aug
Fitness Assessment
03 Aug
Some questions to ponder
03 Aug
How long does a team agreement need to be?
02 Aug
Team Agreements
02 Aug
Clinical Psychodrama
30 Jul
Cholesterol too low?
29 Jul
Another new pedometer
29 Jul
Some notes on ethics
27 Jul
Preparing a position on a case
27 Jul
On becoming a critically reflexive practitioner
27 Jul
We have game
27 Jul
Post Exec
24 Jul
Class format
22 Jul
Mintzberg on management and strategy
22 Jul
Docility and near-decomposability
21 Jul
Recruiting and CVs
19 Jul
Back to school
19 Jul
A new toy (or not)
17 Jul
Web sites and Google
11 Jul
A question of rollover
11 Jul
Site maintenance
11 Jul
Roughing it
11 Jul
Googling
18 Jun
Shrek 2
17 Jun
PhD Seminar
16 Jun
Law firm survey
16 Jun
Walking
15 Jun
The cultural web
15 Jun
Something's rotten
15 Jun
What is agency?
15 Jun
Some changes
12 Jun
Adventures with TurnItIn
02 Jun
What makes an incident 'critical'?
02 Jun
References
01 Jun
Paraphrasing
31 May
Planning for the future
31 May
Some thoughts on assignments
31 May
Quotations from the final presentations
30 May
The last class
30 May
Lunch with friends
29 May
Marking
26 May
The sound of a penny dropping
25 May
Still doing maps and incidents
20 May
OK
20 May
Critical incidents and maps
19 May
Some notes on the assignment (for next time)
19 May
Confusion reigns
18 May
Learning journals
16 May
The flow of assignments
09 May
Mike's Bikes
08 May
The end of an era
08 May
EVA
08 May
Nurses at Auckland Hospital
08 May
Pigeon-holing
08 May
A wake up call
02 May
Devil in the detail
02 May
Take a closer look
01 May
Kill Bill
30 Apr
About risk
28 Apr
MBA Diner
27 Apr
Governing variables
26 Apr
Trails in net space
26 Apr
Argyris & Schön
26 Apr
The tax man (or woman) cometh
24 Apr
Writing, writing, writing
24 Apr
Starsky & Hutch
23 Apr
PhD Blogs
23 Apr
PhD entries
23 Apr
Moving on
23 Apr
Friday already
17 Apr
If you ...
15 Apr
Book review and response
14 Apr
The railway station
14 Apr
Professionalism: The third logic
14 Apr
Site updates
13 Apr
Achieving routine in organizational change
12 Apr
The structuring of organizational structures
12 Apr
New goal
11 Apr
GeoURL
11 Apr
Girl with a Pearl Earring
11 Apr
Literature and management
09 Apr
About work
09 Apr
Going forward and looking back
09 Apr
Academic Honesty
08 Apr
The Ugly
06 Apr
The bad
06 Apr
The good
03 Apr
Why journal
02 Apr
Mike's Bikes Message Board
01 Apr
Chocks away on the search engines
30 Mar
The 2004 Douglas Robb Lectures and Functioning Knowledge
29 Mar
Summits
29 Mar
Ambiguity
28 Mar
Paycheck
28 Mar
Abigail's Party
28 Mar
Multiple weblogs
26 Mar
Scholarly works
24 Mar
Mornington Crescent
22 Mar
Trust
20 Mar
Testing maps
19 Mar
The rumour mill
14 Mar
I'm anxious
13 Mar
Spelling
12 Mar
Echoes of Karl Weick: A few notes on sense making.
12 Mar
Broken maps
11 Mar
Exploring the year ahead: Creating responses to challenges and change
11 Mar
Sociodrama
11 Mar
Of maps
09 Mar
Opening the floodgates
08 Mar
Textile
08 Mar
Journaling
08 Mar
MGMT 301
08 Mar
DPE
2003
22 Nov
First Entry
19 May
House for sale
28 Mar
Duh!
28 Mar
Psychodrama
22 Mar
Pesky ^M
26 Feb
The server saga continues
26 Feb
A new server
18 Feb
My Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE or spam) Policy
15 Feb
Upgrading to MT 2.6
06 Feb
Chicago
2002
20 Dec
Men in Black II
20 Dec
Managing Links
19 Dec
Fitness Assessment
19 Dec
Bookmarklets for all
18 Dec
Sources of MT ideas
18 Dec
Bookmarklets
18 Dec
A blog is born
28 May
Noises off
17 Apr
The Hollow Crown
06 Mar
Writing a proposal
05 Mar
Day two
25 Feb
A new office
24 Feb
Sunday, Sunday
23 Feb
PhD Progress
22 Feb
Strategy seminar
21 Feb
Launch Day
20 Feb
Setting up the site