AnswersThatWork Blog June 2009

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Monday, 29th June 2009

Valentino Rossi & Zhu Zhq

Question : What have Valentino Rossi and Zhu Zhq got in common ?

Pure Genius !!!

Recently some of us here at AnswersThatWork have been receiving some animations labelled as "fantastic". Well, OK, they were good. But the best one for me has to be the stick man Kung-Fu Fighter (XiaoXiao) from the original master of animation Zhu Zhq. I couldn't locate it on safe pages on the web for all of you to enjoy so decided to post it on our own website. Enjoy Zhu Zhq's genius here.

Onto Mr Rossi, the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). Valentino Rossi is the greatest motorcycle rider of all time. What really characterizes him is that when he is pushed, when the only thing that will do is going beyond the impossible, then Valentino will go beyond the impossible. Yes, Valentino won the Dutch MotoGP Grand Prix at Assen, Netherlands on Saturday and established a lead over Lorenzo at the top of the leaderboard, but for me, in the same way that Valentino effectively won the 2008 title at Laguna Seca by going beyond the impossible and demoralising Casey Stoner in one of the most amazing races of all time, I truly believe that even though we are not yet at the middle point of the 2009 season, Valentino Rossi's unbelievable win 2 weeks ago in Barcelona effectively won the mental battle against Jorge Lorenzo for this year's title. You've read it here first : when the season ends in September everyone will say that Valentino Rossi won the title in Barcelona two weeks ago.

Judge for yourself — Enjoy Valentino Rossi's genius below (and make sure you turn the sound up) — The Doctor rules OK !

Enjoyed it ? Now, I couldn't help but also include a clip from the Italian channel that covered the race; the commentator even lost his voice — Mama Mia ! Grazie per tutto questo !

I tell you : this was the most unbelievable 500cc race I have ever seen, and, certainly, the most incredible last lap. As everyone said : the best race of all time culminating in an incredible last corner win for the Greatest Of All Time. Valentino Rossi — a genius in our time.

—— (TUT) SpaceMan

Thursday, 25th June 2009

The traces we leave behind....

You know those modern-day networked office photocopiers that can do anything from simply photocopying to printing from anywhere on the network, scan to a folder or to an email address, print double-sided, print books, all of this in colour of course, keep your print jobs for printing or reprinting later, and make pizza ?

Increasingly these photocopiers are known by their other description — multi-function printers. Well, we had an interesting meeting recently. We were consulting with an embassy and they told us that all their embassies worldwide had new instructions as regards those photocopiers.

As you may or may not know, all these photocopiers have an internal hard disk. The photocopier receives all print jobs to the hard disk before printing them. If the print job is to be kept by the copier for reprinting at a later stage, it is stored on the hard disk. All scan jobs are first scanned to the hard disk before being stored into their destination folder or emailed. And, lastly, when you are photocopying, your originals are first scanned to the hard disk before being printed as photocopies.

Do you see where I'm going ?

The directive from this particular country to all its embassies worldwide as regards these photocopiers was : "Whenever a photocopier engineer is required, make sure that someone watches him/her at all times. At no stage should the engineer be allowed to plug in a flash USB pen into the photocopier, and if the engineer should want to change the hard disk, the hard disk stays with the Embassy so that the IT guys can securely wipe the hard disk and erase all traces of passport photocopies, confidential government information, etc...".

The traces we leave behind....

—— (TUT) SpaceMan

Thursday, 11th June 2009

To Believe or not to Believe

Here is one for the Philosophy professors.

Some will see this as a religious issue, but it is not.

Some will see this as a metaphysical issue, but it is not.

Some will see this as a philosophical issue, but it is not.

A few mathematicians and computer geeks out there will see it as a logical issue — maybe they're right....

Question : if one does not believe in the good of anyone or any situation, if one always sees deviousness where there is straightness, if one always sees angles where there are none, can true contentment ever come to one ?

Get the beers out and discuss....

Best answers welcome on Feedback.

And don't forget the pizzas too !

—— (TUT) SpaceMan