Mindpoke dance

So it's time to get to the heart of Breeze - a week and a bit on. To be fair I hardly danced and also to be fair one tiny thing put my completely weekend out of kilter. More of later. There's been some startlingly candid and unintentionally comical comment on the music - most of it more heat than light except where it was blowing smoke.  The debate revealed the contradictions of the whole business of change (and indeed the change in business).  It was interesting to read and note the blunt edged approach to what the people paying for the event think. That aside for a while, it was a weekend of the usual suspects provided high standards of musical choice though some were hampered by low standard of fidelity.  There were random bits of brilliance but nadirs were also achieved including an ear-bleeding cover version which should remain well under cover. As I have said elsewhere there wasn't nearly enough slow stuff for my liking on Friday or Saturday night.  Thi...

The generals of the Roman empire reported back to their emperor that everything was going well.  They were the last to notice when their empire started to collapse from within.  Futile expeditions, wasteful extravagance, expensive wars, decentralised control of the provinces, integration with local cultures and barbarians at the frontiers all lead to the empire collapsing.  But the main thing was that nobody knew whilst it was happening. There's been no time in the history of modern commerce when companies have had such short lives - the turnover of the FTSE 100 is much greater than it has ever been before.  Companies which thrive generally do so by diversifying from the core business and having every now and then root and branch overhaul of products that are not selling so well.  Sometimes they move to selling something else (more money to be made from printers when no one has them, when everyone has one make money from printer ink).  Business models nee...