Archive for August, 2007
links for 2007-08-17
Friday, August 17th, 2007-
There is no formula for dealing with hard times, but these 8 steps will help you understand your predicament and determine the best course of action.
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Sustaining motivation for a long-term goal is hard to achieve, and yet the best goals can usually only be accomplished in a few months or even years. Here’s the solution: Focus instead on creating a new habit that will lead to achieving your goal.
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14. You can’t take it with you. What is going to matter to you on your deathbed? Looking back at your entire life, what was important? Use that to prioritize.
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The idea is to not let anything into your home that won’t serve a purpose while nonetheless avoiding a monastic life. It takes some conscious effort, but it’s rewarding when you come home to a serene space.
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The Google Gadgets API is a simple way to create little applications that run on multiple sites, including iGoogle, Google Desktop, Google Page Creator, and thousands of sites all over the web that use Google Gadgets for Your Webpage. Google Gadgets reach
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Procrastinators Anonymous —yes, they have meetings— list ten signs of compulsive procrastination.
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For the chronic procrastinator, it’s not necessarily the size or complexity of the job that is the problem. It’s the emotional and psychological issues that drive procrastination.
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time-management tools and systems create problems for procrastinators. Tools and systems are classic distractions. (I’ll look at distractions in a later post.)
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You may not actively create a procrastinator, but you can develop a child’s time-management skills.
links for 2007-08-15
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007-
haha IE you suck! So glad I dont use windoze
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1. Start Early
2. Be greedy to acquire the intellectual capital
3. Apply what you learn diligently
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“I Suck” moments are an illusion in themselves. As painful as they are, once you go to the other side, you can’t imagine not having done it sooner. Although it may appear to be a dip in quality of life, the opposite often occurs. Looking back, the
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bio’s on some of the bigger names in productivity/personal development blogs as of late
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What you don’t want to be doing is spending the whole conversation staring blankly at the speaker. This doesn’t mean that you need to step in every time there is a silence, because there is nothing wrong with letting it be quiet while the person gathe
links for 2007-08-14
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007-
you must integrate the regime into your lifestyle seamlessly. If you have a sports club at your workplace, you can go there during lunchtime or after work. Or sign up with a gym nearby your home. Better still, like me, once I step out of my home, I can jo
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6. Work on minor deadlines first. Break down monthly and annual objectives down to daily actions. Big goals aren’t important if they don’t translate into changes today.
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yet another take on using rsync to backup to your Amazon S3 drive
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links to pidgin guifications deb file, which doesnt seem to be available in the normal Feisty repository
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A user-powered site, and social network, serving guides, tutorials, and more in all categories of computing, technology, and the Internet.
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2. For a week, give yourself $70 cash, and put away all credit cards. This forces you to live on $10 a day. When you are faced with a strict income, it forces you to be very careful in what you spend. It will make you realize what is really indispensable
links for 2007-08-13
Monday, August 13th, 2007-
Ingredients:
Clean #6 Plastic
Permanent Markers
Scissors
Aluminum Foil
Oven and Tongs or Oven Mitt
links for 2007-08-12
Sunday, August 12th, 2007-
1. What’s the most important task to do now? 2. Does it need to be timed? 3. Min or max amount of time to work on? 4. What’s the next action?
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1. It sets a minimum limit of time to get you start working 2. It sets a maximum limit of time to not overspend your time 3. It gives you a sense of urgency that increases your intensity 4. It allows you to “budget” your time which ensures that each t
links for 2007-08-11
Saturday, August 11th, 2007-
Using the feeds in Google Calendar - this creates a feed in gmail for a user specified feed (location saved in google bookmarks).
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$20 for 6 GB for a year seems like a damn good deal to me; that’s less than $2/month to double your storage
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Power users need power utilities, and Windows’ default system programs barely get the job done. Over time third-party developers have stepped and build superior replacements to programs like Notepad, Paint, Windows Explorer and the Command Prompt. Get the
links for 2007-08-08
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007-
Basically the ingredients to make homemade Febreeze is a mix of water and fabric softener.
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All design starts from four basic principles, abbreviated as CRAP (they come in no particular order, so the more squeamish can rearrange them to form “CARP”, if you like. I’d advise against “PCRA”, though…). These are Contrast, Repetition, Ali
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Organizing is a set of skills you CAN learn. I know because I wasn’t born organized either. I’m a natural sentimental packrat. I had to learn to change the way I relate to my things and release clutter to make room for the future I truly wanted. Because t
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First, a few quick reasons not to multi-task:
1. Multi-tasking is less efficient, due to the need to switch gears for each new task, and the switch back again.
2. Multi-tasking is more complicated, and thus more prone to stress and errors.
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There are 3 primary reasons we lose motivation:1. Lack of confidence - If you don’t believe you can succeed, what’s the point in trying?
2. Lack of focus - If you don’t know what you want, do you really want anything?
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When I find my thoughts are a mess, I answer the following five questions to unclutter my mind.
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Take time today to learn from your failures, and fail forward. Failure happens, and learning from our failure is the best teacher we can ever have
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Stockpiling staples like these when they’re on sale saves you money two ways: by purchasing the items at the reduced price as well as cutting down on quick jaunts to the store when you run out.
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use autoview, which makes mutt display the attachments inline. Then you have to add ’set implicit_autoview’ to your muttrc and this to your ~/.mailcap: “text/html; lynx -dump -force_html %s; needsterminal; copiousoutput;”
