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Uncommon Lifestyles and the Truth About the 4-Hour Workweek: An Interview with Tim Ferriss ∞ Get Rich Slowly This article spurred a long night of reading about virtual personal assistants and other ways of “lightening the load” of some of the tasks we all have to do in our lives. I like the concepts. There are some things I can probably do that would help me make the most of my time. In fact, I . . . → Read More: Outsourcing your life, and the 4 hour work week My company has recently shut down all access to YouTube. I get that. I completely believe that many people are using company time and bandwidth to watch all sorts of inappropriate — or just plain time wasting — content. From a certain perspective, I can support the decision to prevent that from happening. There is a war between those who would waste company time and resources, and those who are tasked with keeping that from . . . → Read More: I’m a casualty of war Official Google Reader Blog: There’s a feed for that?! I’ve never actually used Craig’s List, but the article linked above points out that you can use feeds from that site and others to help you in a job search. It also has some other uses for feed readers that may not be immediately obvious to some people. While I don’t use Craig’s List, I do have the feed from my ASTD job search coming to . . . → Read More: Job Search via RSS Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development: eLearnDevCast New Episode with Karl Kapp – GGG4L – Recruiting Gamer Generation I just listened to a discussion between Brent Schlenker and Dr. Karl Kapp about part of Dr. Kapp’s book (Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning) where he covers recruiting the “Gamer” generation. There are some great takeaways from that conversation for me. For example, they were talking about how far into the future companies have to think now . . . → Read More: Corporate Gaming: Recruiting and training Computer Tips For Everybody » Blog Archive » Create a custom Control Panel in Windows XP This is a timely tip for me, as I just received a new laptop with WinXP on it at work, and I’m trying to reaquaint myself with the little tweaks that aid in productivity. I’d probably opt for just turning on the setting that makes the Control Panel appear as a menu rather than in a new window, but . . . → Read More: Customize your WinXP Control Panel I had over 150 posts from LifeHacker in my Google Reader that I finally parsed through over the last 3 hours. There were a few that I may post about in more detail later, but there were some that popped out as quick and/or cool. Not all the links below actually go to LifeHacker, because the posts didn’t have any significant additional information about the topic at hand. In those cases I’m just posting directly . . . → Read More: LinkList: LifeHacker edition The Simple Dollar » Live Free: Seven Pieces Of Open Source Software That Transformed My Life Okay, “life transforming” might be a little extreme … but then again I haven’t tried most of them yet. I have tried GAIM, and I like it. I use Firefox, Thunderbird and (obviously) WordPress on a daily basis (though I haven’t heard of most of the extensions he mentioned). I loaded Open Office once, but I had a really . . . → Read More: Life Transforming Open Source Software Easy Meal Prep Association and Meal Assembly Directory I’m looking for ways to live cheaper. I got a tip in the comments of another blog to check out a Meal Preparatory business. The link above is a directory of these kinds of businesses. In case you aren’t familiar with the concept, the way it works is that you sign up for a session, choose the meals you want to make from that month’s menu, then . . . → Read More: Is a meal preparation service a good deal? Monkey Bites The post is missing a few details (perhaps because they aren’t available), but it looks like the popular Eudora email client from Qualcomm is being completely re-written, using the Mozilla Thunderbird code-base as its engine, and released to the public as open source. Eudora is a well-loved if somewhat outdated email client that many people (Qualcomm claims millions of users, which sounds accurate) continue to use just for its unique feature set. Eudora . . . → Read More: Eudora goes Open Source Creating Passionate Users: REAL motivation posters This is stuff I’ve talked about with co-workers years ago: the “fake-ness” of motivational posters. The examples Kathy created are hilarious and truthful. There was also a great post in the comments that I’ll quote here: This all relates to item 10 of Deming’s 14 points; eliminate slogans, exhortations and targets for the workforce. This didn’t seem to do Japanese industry much harm. Deming said: “Posters that explain . . . → Read More: Creating Passionate Users: REAL motivation posters |
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