tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57450308286478010422024-10-24T16:49:26.195-07:00it's the laugh you hear in your head. normally, the smug one but just occasionally it's the keening wail that ratchets up the scale. :) that would be me.cuervohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03821839918114535386noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745030828647801042.post-2551108397091122742009-02-13T21:58:00.000-08:002009-02-13T22:14:29.036-08:00

andrew moore has an interesting piece that i found on reddit tonight and it points to why supporting code that someone wrote is the best place to be a 'hero'.citation one:If you outperform stagnant, you're a hero ok - let's be honest here: only egomaniacs are into being a 'hero'. while you, as the coder might think that when you refactor someone else's code you're being a 'hero' - the fact of the

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one of the aspects of the web that has impacted the job market is that if you are seeking a job, then you should be aware of what you have put up online.today's marketwatch.com has an article about why companies should be careful about trawling for data on prospective employees:Various studies suggest that upwards of 40% of employers have trolled Facebook and other social networking sites for

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today's globe and mail has a great article called cheer up: canada's in great shape:Job numbers out yesterday - showing a jump in the national unemployment rate to 6.6 per cent - confirm that Canada has followed the United States into a recession. But the odds are that workers here will come through the downturn of 2009 with far fewer scrapes and bruises than they did during the two previous

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the title for this post refers to one of my favourite tags on slashdot.it happens from time to time - the sudden inspiration that rather than jumping through the intellectual hoops presented to one by folks who's intentions tend to be dubious, one should call things as they appear to be and go with that.my favourite programming language, ruby does that via what's called 'duck typing' it makes a

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from nin to barack obama there are more and more signs every day that any business that doesn't engage customers on the world wide web will become as relevant (and business capable) as that nimrod who referred to the internet as a 'big series of tubes'.i found this linked from digg but it's the wall street journal (so even stodgy business journals understand) so why not add a bit of wall street

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if ever there was a more certain clue that the corporate 'masterminds' behind the 'big seven' and the 'top three' were sorely missing their heads in the ongoing debate between the writers guild and the top bean counters it's this:the writers are going directly to the internet alone.while part of this pleases me a great deal, having posted on the discussion between thom yorke and david byrne

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david byrne gives us a cool appraisal of the landscape and the money making opportunities available for the innovative musician this century.survival strategies

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recently radiohead turned everyone's head in the music industry spinning about 360 degrees and frothing pea soup at the mouth as if they were the demonically infested child from 'the exorcist' for one simple idea:they put up the tracks for their upcoming album 'rainbows' on a server and suggested that the visitors 'pay what it was worth to them' and download the track.critics and pundits were

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'nuff said.

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Unexplained Phenomenon - Simplest Electric Motor - Funny bloopers are a click away

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the toronto star has a lovely article about the real impact of commuting and it's toll on family time.not to be snarky, but it's obvious time over there. my wife and i were discussing this the other day how by the time we get home (we both have rather long commutes) to cook dinner and have a chat about the day, well it's time to go to sleep.i used to be an avid, addicted television watcher. now,

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it's been a long timei shouldn't have left youwithout a strong rhyme to step to - eric b. & rakimjust to say that i'm back again trying to take a few minutes each day and post links about what comes through my mental filter.thank you for finding this as part of your reading schedule. i hope to not let you down again.

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courtesy of google.i had a longer post but in the process of 'previewing it' before i posted it - it got lost - so here's the shorter post about it.check out google book search. it allows you to read through books (some of them) and to compile a list of your own recommendations.for now - i have the starts of mine.cuervo's recommended readings

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some faves for you:http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8B9E947363BC2A8E

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who would have thought it?;-)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2007/08/17/scicrow117.xml

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time magazine gives up the facts on the ten most under reported stories and i have to admit that at least 7 of them i didn't know anything about.http://www.time.com/time/topten/2006/underreported/01.htmli mean come on, i know way more about paris hilton than i EVER wanted to know.

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Hopefully these will be short notes - I don't want to get into a long treatise on what change is - just to point out a few things that have helped me attempt to reframe my stress related to change.#1 Change causes stress. This point probably is a painfully obvious one but, remember - there are three types of changes: those sought after, those dreaded/feared, and those unexpected. All of

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Over @ stevepavlina.com, there's a nice little essay about how to benefit others most through one's occupation. I can understand this idea if one is happy & satisfied in their career, feeling as if they are making a difference but, far too often folks fine themselves in spots where the place that they earn their income is the last place in their life to find positive impact on their

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@ http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/opportunity-overload.html# The author comes up with a whack of ways to 'focus' & not be distracted by the 'wealth of opportunities that are out there'I disagree.Why? Well, simply put puts a matter of focus. Steve Pavlina points out on his weblog that @ his Tae Kwon Do dojo there is a sign that says 'you a studying to become a

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On his blog yesterday, steve h young talked about the 'pareto rule'.The pareto rule states that 80% of the wealth in most countries ends up being in the hands of about 20% of the population.This concept has a life beyond it's original inception having been found to apply in areas such as the social sciences - to fields as arcane and difficult to understand as orginizational

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i couldn't possibly do as well as some of the writers who are sharpening up their pens at this time but, i'll take my shot at it.you see, michelangelo antonioni has passed on to the great beyond.cinema has lost another of it's giants as we stumble on into the 21st century. antonioni was known for his depictions of alienation and with his experimintation with the art form itself by the use of

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enough said.here is a great list of things that get in the way of 'being productive'.for me, again, being productive is carving out as much stuff in as short a period of time so i can get back to a 'balance' in my life.not running around in my personal life with the same sort of crazed type of agenda that my work constitutes.the article

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as i mentioned earlier - i find this idea of 'productivity' somewhat disturbing when applied to my personal life - i like to have my personal life remain something that is well, 'offline' in a certain way.by that i mean, that the best use of my 'personal time' is when i owe no one or nothing any of my commitment. this means that i can do whatever is in my head at the minute, from walking along

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i can't believe this! it's amazing.someone put into a mathematical formula the reason why we don't finish what we start, or in my case - sometimes don't even start it.The equation reads: Utility = E x V / (Gamma) x Dhere's the article, & i'd like to point out that the originator is a canadian!

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while i wait for a phone call today - i'd like to put you up on something that i find very cool.pocketmod which is a very handy website for those of us who are becoming more and more obsessed with maximizing our time. after my life change - i've become slowly more and more obsessed with saving more time. wondering things like - if i can do this on my pda while i'm on the way to such and so place

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