My Name is Kate

Sprouting a Message

Got this through Agenda Inc and the Taipei Times.

Japan's second largest toymaker, Takara, will on Feb. 10 start nationwide marketing of the gift cans, which hold soil and the small plant bearing a message that sprouts up in about five days.

It offers six different messages, which are inscribed through a laser beam, with one side of the bean carrying words such as "I Love You" and "Good Luck!" and the other side a smiley face.

Known as "Ma Mail," a pun on the Japanese word for bean mame, the product can be used as "a new type of message card to convey your feelings to your loved ones," Takara said in a statement

Cool!

Photo: Pink sneaker yellow leaf

Found this on flickr today. From a photographer in Newfoundland. Love the colours and the composition!!

Pink sneaker yellow leaf Originally uploaded by Kent Barrett.

A Grand Experiment: Blogging Behind the Firewall

I'm starting a Grand Experiment at work (which may not really be a grand experiement to a lot of you, but its exciting for me!): using a blog for project managment and knowledge management for this year's projects.

What makes it more interesting to me as a socio-organizational development experiment is that I work for a very large, slightly stogy, petro-chemical company that is dominated by engineers and IS guys who are programmed to "Say 'NO' first and then don't bother asking questions because the answer will still be 'NO'".

So I've asked my interactive agency to host it for me. They rock ... very helpful and supportive of this kind of thing.

It turns out that there are some great support sites for this kind of grand experiment such as Cutting Through. I also found Elise's Learning MT site which is extremely helpful.