Archive for October, 2005

How Useful Is the Pareto Principle?

Before you decide the Pareto Principle is true and can be used to guide your actions, I want to ask two important questions. Can you identify which actions make up the useful 20%? And can you do so in advance? And does this useful 20% always contain more or less the same actions? Continue reading

October 31 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: action, business, customer, decision, learning, Management, organization, Pareto_Principle, Productivity, work, work-life | 14 comments»

The interrupt driven lifestyle

Without concentration, you may not be efficient with the task on hand. And most of the time, the lack of concentration is because there are interruptions from different sources around you - like instant messenger and mobile etc. Babak Farrokhi over at Geek Style has given some suggestions on killing the interruptions around us. Stuff that you can do to remove computer and electronic interruptions, for instance:... This solution worked… Continue reading

October 31 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: concentration, interruption | no comments»

Breakthrough a challenge: Succeed or die

One of the great bloggers, Dwayne Melancon has suggested a good technique to add fuel to your mind and help to achieve any difficult tasks. He suggested to make a belief in your mind which you must complete a set of tasks no matter what. For instance, make yourself believe that you will die if the project is not successful, and you pretend and act this is true and it… Continue reading

October 31 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: procrastination, Productivity, success | 1 comment»

Weekend Downloads

Deskloops Deskloops software enables computer users to handle and have open all the activities and streams they require simultaneously and within the limited space of a single screen.Deskloops does this by arranging windows along a virtual horizontal loop. At any one time, you'll see window open on screen as usual, but in fact any number of other windows, set on that loop, can be rotated in from left or right… Continue reading

October 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: download, software | 2 comments»

11 Tips on How to Avoid Back Pain

Back pain is one of the most common physical injuries. It may not only occur for whose work as lifting heavy objects. You will exposed by this risk if you sit in front of computer all day, or you stand for a long period of time. The worse thing is that back pain can be serious. It can be a long-term injury and it will… Continue reading

October 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: health, injury | 27 comments»

Re-cap for this week

Some great posts from this week:

Special thanks to Adrian, Rosa and Taguchi-san for their fantastic articles… Continue reading

October 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Creating Virtual Machine for the free VMware Player

VMware Player is a new free software that enables you to run any existing virtual machine created by their paid product, such as VMware workstation. By default it does not allow you to create any new virtual machine. John Bokma has written a quick how-to on creating a free virtual machine image using QEmu. By using that you can create a fresh image and with a appropriate config file… Continue reading

October 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: howto, software | 1 comment»

How to Exercise our Mind

WikiHow has 35 ways that can stimulate our minds, like listen to music, look at arts, read stuff that you never read before. Main idea is to try out different things - things you never do before. An open mind trying out new stuff everyday will make you more creative and smarter. Here are some interesting suggestions:- While waiting (in line at the bank, a coffee shop, a restaurant… Continue reading

October 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: brain, mind, stimulation | 6 comments»

Lecture Podcast for Your Audio Self-Development Program

Productive Strategies has a list of universities which are making lectures available as podcasts. Those are pretty cool additions to your audio book listening schedule. But as you know, the quality will be varies as usual, so try it out and see what you enjoy and is value-add:... Several universities are making lectures available as Podcasts. Not every class is going to make a great podcast, but the… Continue reading

October 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: audio, Podcast | 1 comment»

What Clients Really Want?

With any business or type of work - you have to deal with customers directly or indirectly. Focusing on customer relationship and make sure your products and services are working for them goes long ways to keep your job around. Pat Matson Knapp has written an article on Joe Grant's "Top 10 List of Client Wants". All of them can apply to direct customer relationship, and some of them can… Continue reading

October 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: client, customer | 1 comment»

How to Interview Programmer

Finding good programmer is hard, but even if there are good programmers within the interview candidates, it may still hard to recognize them. There is an article here on tips to explore their experience and tap into their skill to find out what they really worth. Tips like reading their code is actually the most useful among them:... Josh Bloch suggested one technique we all seemed to like: Have the… Continue reading

October 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, programmer, software | 5 comments»

The Real Rules of Engagement

On a recent late night I found myself needing to wind down before sleep, I flipped on the TV and happened to catch the tail end of Rules of Engagement. The military action drama seemed so completely out of context for me, for without ever having seen the movie when it came out for the first time in 2000, the phrase “Rules of Engagement” had quickly caught on in… Continue reading

October 27 2005 | By Rosa | Tagged: Communication, engagement, participation | 7 comments»

Trip Planner Service

Yahoo! has just released a service called Trip Planner. This is a pretty fantastic time-saving tool to plan your trip, online. Here is an example. Pick things to do, hotel to stay, restaurants to dine. Every location have a map reference. You can then print the information off and use it as a guide. You can also share this with friend and invite them to plan the trip… Continue reading

October 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: planner, service, software, travel, trip, web | no comments»

Repetitive Motion Injury Creates Slacker

When you feel you want to take a day off, there maybe a chance that you are not slacking off from work. Studies (which performed on rats) showed that it maybe caused by repetitive motion injury. When the repetitive work become unbearable, body will emit cytokines, proteins that help to start inflammation. Study shows that cytokines affects workers behaviour and creating a so called sick-worker syndrome which the brain may… Continue reading

October 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: health, injury | 2 comments»

Re-enable Right-Click When Web Pages Disable it

Sometimes it is just irritating when a web site uses javascript to disable your right-click, attempting to block you to access the context menu. Tech-Recipes has a good tips on re-enabling the right-click context menu on this situation. You can a javascript to re-enable it:When visiting the offending website, type the following into the URL bar of your browser: javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)Re-Enable Right-Click When Web Pages Turn It Off - [Tech-Recipes]… Continue reading

October 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: software, tips | 8 comments»

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