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December 02, 2003

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You can't blame him

The unlinkable SCMP brings us this:

Secretary for Education and Manpower Arthur Li Kwok-cheung was accused of playing with his hand-held, electronic personal data assistant (PDA) during a meeting that lasted almost four hours...Professor Li said: "There is no reason to assume that the education chief cannot manage more than one task at a time. I can listen to educators' suggestions, read documents and check my schedule [on the PDA] at the same time."
Like we haven't all done that before. That's why PDAs were invented.

I would think this is better than the alternative: snoring.

 posted by Simon on 12.02.03 at 01:17 PM in the




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Comments:

Yes, but it can be irritating if you think people are not paying attention during a meeting. The worst thing is being in a meeting with Filipinos (and some Singaporeans) constantly sending and receiving text messages.

I reckon most most meetings could be a lot shorter if people prepared in advance and then concentrated during the meeting.

posted by: Chris on 12.03.03 at 11:06 AM [permalink]




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