So another year has gone by, I haven’t posted as much as I’d like, though I have plenty of plans for a series of posts related to various things this year. But, to start it all off, I’m recapping the top music I’ve been listening to over the last year. Mainly for me, though perhaps one of you will find some new music you like, but I also just like to see how my tastes change over time and different uses (especially compared to my top music for last year). So here it be. Continue reading »

In the spirit of Occam’s Razor, and perhaps even more specifically Hanlon’s Razor, today during an impromptu meeting the term “Rhoades’ Razor” was coined. So here I give it to you, my eponymous law, for all posterity to use:

The simplest answer is that you are an idiot.

Much like the Hanlon principle (“do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity”), this new principle can find quite a few comfortable homes and uses in the modern day business world.

So go, I say unto you, go and point out idiocy when you see it. Drive it from its home. Make it suffer. Punish it. Lest it turn you into one of its latest victims and servants to the status quo: the acceptance of the unnacceptable. Because if that happens, well then the simplest answer is that you are an idiot.

Let me first say: yes, there are already a lot of unboxing and impressions of Kindle 2.0 out there. But that isn’t stopping me from giving my own impressions as opposed to some wannabe journo at some blog with implied authority. I’m not saying or trying to infer their similar posts are lacking in any way, this is just my take. Continue reading »