Posted in computer on 22 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Web Worker Daily has a nice article about staying on the secure side in 2008: Six Ways to Start Off Secure in ‘08.
Get a USB Thumb Drive for Backups.
Use a VPN in Public.
Use the “S” with GMail; https://mail.google.com.
Run and Regularly Update a Security Suite.
Be Sure Your Home Wi-Fi Network is Secure.
Clean Up and Tune [...]
Posted in health, lifehacks on 21 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was exploring some of the articles on Sharpbrains.com today, and I discovered a link to a nice site on meditation.
I have been looking around for something like this, but most of the meditation sites seems to sell meditation classes, and nothing more.
How To Meditate on the other side, seems to have at least [...]
Posted in health, lifehacks on 21 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
1. Learn what is the “It” in “Use It or Lose It”. A basic understanding will serve you well to appreciate your brain’s beauty as a living and constantly-developing dense forest with billions of neurons and synapses.
2. Take care of your nutrition. Did you know that the brain only weighs 2% of body mass but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 17 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Free is Chris Anderson’s new book. Anderson is editor-in-chief of Wired, and this is a great speach about how technology gets so cheap that it’s offered for free, while the business gets its money from other sources.
Posted in Uncategorized on 10 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lifehack.org:
How To Move Forward Once You Achieve A Big Goal
What do you do once you achieve your big goal and make it to the top? This can become a big problem if it looks like the only way you can go is down. Professional athletes and aging celebrities all face this issue. The problem [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 6 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Aligning shapes
Here is a typical Visio drawing, with some shapes here and there.
To make a drawing look better, select all the shapes (in this case the four to the right), and go to menu Shape – Allign Shapes.
Now select Horizontal Allignment = left, and press ok.
Next, go to menu Shape – Distribute Shapes. Select [...]
Posted in blog on 6 December, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I just realized that extra plugins can be installed and used for WordPress (this is only my second day on WordPress, after moving over from Blogger, ok…).
To me, the idea of configuring and adding extra features is allways welcome, and preferably with an API so anyone can add their good (?) inventions.
I haven’t [...]
Posted in people, presentation on 5 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Presentation Zen has an article about Carl Sagan (1934-1996).
Carl Sagan was a scientist and a host for Cosmos back in the 1980s, and Garr Renoylds (creator of Presentation Zen) writes about his excellent skills and techniques in presenting complex stuff in a way that people could understand.
Read more on Presentation Zen…
Here is the Cosmic Calendar from Discovery Education, where each month [...]
Posted in blog on 5 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so here I am, after putting my kids to bed, I lay on the guests bed waiting for my son to fall asleep (he’s a bit afraid of the dark, so I tend to lie in his room), surfing randomly around.
And, behold, what do I find. A lifehack.org article about a Microsoft product, which [...]
Posted in management on 3 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Three secrets of the one minute manager by Kenneth Blanchard. More on The CPA Journal.
The First Secret: One-Minute Goals.
All good performance starts with clear goals. If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. This is about as fundamental as God, mother and apple pie. If we were going to [...]
