Blogcoven

And so the word came down today - from this Autumn I shall mostly be working in sunny Nigeria.

I think that’s the term, anyway. It’s a concept that people aren’t born understanding, but have to be taught: that one small thing done over and over and over can add up to something very big. (A beloved example is water wearing away a stone, or the Grand Canyon being carved out by the Colorado [...]

The Financial Times had an interesting article about MBA’s - Masters and misgivings: A coveted qualification turns 100 still seeking to prove its worth

Y’all will weary of my shoving PhD cartoons in your digital faces, but I do try to package each fangirl link with a Real Life Story that is both timely and true. I’m not sure how Jorge manages to write comics that directly relate to problems I’m facing, but he does, and I continue to [...]

Today I learned about the Sprint Family Locator feature. It allows parents to track their kids (or, more generally, an “account holder” to track the other phones on the account) using GPS included in most snazzy phones sold these days. The trackee gets notified either every time the tracker requests its location, or “periodically.” There [...]