Author: Baldy

Skull Candy GI review

I’ve had my Skull Candys for about a year now, and have used them on and off during the year.

Skull Candy GI Headphones

What I like

The sound quality is good, not up there with Sennheiser but good, with excellent bass because of the size of the drivers.

Solid, you won’t break these easily.

Lifetime guarantee, no matter how you break them.

Built-in bottle opener, ok, that’s not really a feature of headphones, but it has come in handy once or twice.

What I don’t like Continue reading Skull Candy GI review

Take responsibility for what you do with your tools

While reading Scott Berkun’s defence of PowerPoint, a phrase came to mind “A bad workman will always blame his tools”.

I’ve sat through so many bad presentations where the first thing the speaker does is to apologise for the “Death By PowerPoint”, and the converse, which doesn’t happen that often, is a good presentation where the speaker uses the tool as an aid to draw your attention, like it was designed to do.

I agree with Scott, YOU need to take responsibility for the work you deliver, you should never blame a tool for your shortcomings.

How about laws we actually need?

In the last 2 weeks things have gone really crazy with the arrest of a journalist for dubious reasons, and the government trying to fast track a law which would enable them to hide the corruption prevalent in their ranks, instead of just fixing the real problem.  I have my views on these things, but this is not what the post is about.

We are in our strike season again, a bit later than usual after everyone behaved so nicely during the World Cup, and since yesterday there has been reports all over about violence and intimidation by the strikers.  This is totally uncalled for! Continue reading How about laws we actually need?