RANT: Hey Governor Corzine — still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …

Thursday, December 13, 2007

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 13 Dec 07 @ 0715 Route 295 South milepost 42.3 … …

… white suv td11116 … …

… at leisurely 75 or 80 (It was nearby for very long.) (Your serf speed limit is 65)

… tailgating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from I assume trenton after protecting and serving me.

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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TECH SOFTWARE: HOWLONG2IT counts down to a deadline

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=11169.msg88769#msg88769

HowLong2It

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HowLong2It is a way to keep track of how many days since some date in the past and how many days until some date in the future. The applications is always only a click away. Click on the tray icon and the status window will popup to show you the dates/tasks you are tracking.

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Might be useful if you have a real deadline. Donation ware!

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PRODUCTIVITY: Half an hour?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/12/09/half-an-hour

Half an Hour December 9, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts

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Today, December 9th 2007 the clocks go back in Venezuela – by Half an Hour.

Half an hour?

Yes, half an hour. That may sound a bit like the craziest thing a whole country has ever done in recent times but actually it’s just a reversion to the time zone which was used previously by Venezuela between 1912 and 1964 in the twentieth century.

The new official time zone of Venezuela is determined by meridian 67° 30? west of Greenwich, in South East London, UK. This meridian divides Venezuela into two almost symmetrical areas and represents a -4:30 hour offset from Greenwich Mean Time.

So what’s the time now? Here, very near Greenwich when it’s eight o’clock in the morning 8.00am – GMT, in Caracas, Venezuela it will be half past three: 3.30am.

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It does sound like a “dumb idea”. For the life of me, I never understood why people don’t just set their clocks on GMT and organize their lives around whatever time they need. What’s so sacred about working 9to5? Who cares if you go to bed at 11PM, 2300 local, or 0400+1? I know at my employer, GMT would save a lot of time zone confusion providing across the USA. When I was in the USAF many many decades ago, everything was ZULU this or ZULU that. Guess that’s politically incorrect now? But, there was never any time zone confusion. When I returned to my civilian employer and tried to bring this insight to our datacenter operations, everyone poo pooed it. Every years I’d watch them struggle with Daylight Savings Time or a national time zone confusion. Sigh. Some memes are just too powerful to change. I guess?

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Notice the fine hand of gooferment in the people’s lives.

Not to make things simpler. But to make a role for themselves.

Why not just go to GMT and allow people to organize themselves. It’s not like businesses could figure out what time they should open to best serve their Customers. It’s not like people couldn’t figure out what time they should hit the sack or get up. It’s not like life wouldn’t go on regardless of what digits were on someone’s clock!

In protest, I’m going to be GMT. As soon as I can find my watch!

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FUN: Scrooged

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Check it out. I just Scrooged myself. Have a look by clicking on the link below. http://www.scroogeyourself.com/?id=1341328175 This holiday greeting brought to you by OfficeMax®.

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MONEY: We tend to define our lives by the big events

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/10/24/understanding-the-seven-habits-of-wealth

Understanding the Seven Habits of Wealth
Wednesday, 24th October 2007 (by J.D.)

This is a guest post from Dough Roller, a Washington D.C. blogger who writes about building wealth, one dollar at a time.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle

We tend to define our lives by the big events: graduation, marriage, children, a big promotion, retirement. What often gets neglected are the little things we do every day, the little things that make the big events possible. As Aristotle said, it’s what we “repeatedly do” that produces excellence. When it comes to money and wealth, what do you repeatedly do?

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Hard Work
Modest Living
Patience
Perseverance
Balance
Self-Awareness
Learning

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I remember, but didn’t “learn” until much later, that “small leaks sink big ships”.

Singularly, I have demonstrated “big leaks sing ships quickly”. It’s my personal objective to plug all my “big leaks” before I “sop earning and start burning”.

I have to get organized!

:-(

Maybe that’s the “eighth” idea. Organization. You have to be organized to succeed?

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RANT: Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071211175557.p3d3kaah&show_article=1

Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab, her friends say
Dec 11 12:56 PM US/Eastern

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Friends and classmates of a 16-year-old girl who police say was murdered by her devout Muslim father in a Toronto suburb told local media Tuesday she was killed for not wearing a hijab.

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Here we have a conflict of religion and liberty.

Didn’t the girl have a “right to life”?

So much for the protection of the “state”. It’s fictional; an illusion.

You have only the rights you are willing to defend.

Sad.

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FUN: Status quo

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

“‘Status quo,’ as you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in…'” Attributed to former President Ronald Reagan

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TECH SOFTWARE:ANOTHERONEDONE records progress to your goal

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

http://www.appsapps.info/anotheronedone.php

AnotherOneDone

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AnotherOneDone
What it does:
Helps you keep track of your progress with a numerical goal, such as the amount of books you want to read, blog posts you want to make, batches of cookies you want to bake, etc.

Features:
* Autosaves the amount of your goal.
* Autosaves how many you have done.
* Calculates the remaining amount left to go.
* Copy info to clipboard.
* Progressbar.
* Stays on top.
* Minimizes to tray.
* Access to some controls from tray menu.

How to use:
* Enter the amount of your goal in the top box.
* Click the Set button.
* Each time you complete one towards your goal, click the Add 1 button.
* Once you have reached your goal, click Reset and begin again to set a new goal.

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Donation ware. Sounds useful.

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TECH SOFTWARE: EVALUWEIGHT to make decisions

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=11171.msg89147#msg89147

Evaluweight
Having trouble justifying a decision?
Stop procrastinating and start using Evaluweight !

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This started out as a little fun and bit of effort to scam mouser of one of the legendary Cody Mugs. In the end it is a interesting insight into how we come to a conclusion.

Theory: Each decision you make, is a 100 percent commitment. Therefore, that decision can be broken down into categories, and each category represents a part of that 100 percent commitment.

So “evaluweight” lays this all out in a nice and easy grid format. Simply give each category/feature a percentage mark of how it would impact your total commitment.

Now add the product that you want to compare, and in each category, mark that product out of 10 on how it meets your expectation.

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I remember using this to “sell” Leadership on making decisions. As part of my pitch, I’d get them to state what was important and how important it was. Then, we’d go thru each factor and give it a weight. And, poof there would be a “decision”.

Then, they’d decide they didn’t like the answer and made their own decision.

Little did they realize that I could have cared less WHAT they decided. All I cared about was that they DECIDED something. Anything.

So here’s a tool. Donation ware — you decide how much it’s worth.

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PRODUCTIVITY: they created a pilot’s checklist

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=4

Annals of Medicine
The Checklist
by Atul Gawande

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Instead, they came up with an ingeniously simple approach: they created a pilot’s checklist, with step-by-step checks for takeoff, flight, landing, and taxiing. Its mere existence indicated how far aeronautics had advanced. In the early years of flight, getting an aircraft into the air might have been nerve-racking, but it was hardly complex. Using a checklist for takeoff would no more have occurred to a pilot than to a driver backing a car out of the garage. But this new plane was too complicated to be left to the memory of any pilot, however expert.

With the checklist in hand, the pilots went on to fly the Model 299 a total of 1.8 million miles without one accident. The Army ultimately ordered almost thirteen thousand of the aircraft, which it dubbed the B-17. And, because flying the behemoth was now possible, the Army gained a decisive air advantage in the Second World War which enabled its devastating bombing campaign across Nazi Germany.

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While focused at medicine, this article certainly drives home the value of checklists. I’m going to figure out how I can incorporate this in my daily life. I’ve had enough disasters that I could use some “crash avoidence”. Seems so simple. But, then so is any “great idea”.

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