Monday, April 25, 2005

Ad in Sierra Leone recently.

"Pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor and pay to God what belongs to God," Matthew (22:17-21).all Christians should follow the teachings and example of Jesus Christ. This week: pay your taxes.

Christians apparently call the ad "blasphemous". Not sure which bit they're referring to, although I believe that filing a full and honest tax return breaks the 8th deadly sin of "thou shalt not be terminally stupid"

Also this fairly amusing yet overlong list of project management rules that my boss sent to me yesterday. i have picked my top 10

  1. If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong.
  2. Fast - cheap - good - you can have any two
  3. If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
  4. Warning: dates in a calendar are closer than they appear to be.
  5. The bitterness of poor quality lasts long after the sweetness of making a date is forgotten.
  6. You can con a sucker into committing to an impossible deadline, but you cannot con him into meeting it.
  7. Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.
  8. If you're 6 months late on a milestone due next week but really believe you can make it, you're a project manager.
  9. It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women.
  10. When the weight of the project paperwork equals the weight of the project itself, the project can be considered complete.
Bomber out