Until you have more items that you can physically get done. Enter the “Not To-Do List.” I stumbled across this idea several years ago, and I keep coming back to it. The idea is to list all the activities you are intentionally going to stop doing for the sake of greater productivity.
Here’s why this is important. As people succeed at work, they attract more and more assignments. It’s like they become a task magnet. “Give it to Laurie. She’ll to a great job!” The problem is that people are a finite resource. I don’t care how good you are, you only have so much energy and so much time. It’s true for me. It’s true for you.
I will have to give this some serious thought, as I struggle with wearing multiple hats and then getting reminded that someone needs me on yet another task. Am I creating my job description or is the job describing me.
This has further applications in life. Are you following God's desires for your life or are you letting your desires describe your life and the god you create for yourself?
Cultural shifts create long terms evolutionary changes. Cultural shifts, changes in habits, technologies that slowly obsolete a product or a system are the ones that change our lives. Watch for shifts in systems and processes and expectations. That's what makes change, not big events.
Don't worry about what happened yesterday (or five minutes ago). Focus on what happened ten years ago and think about what you can do that will make a huge impact in six months. The breaking news mindset isn't just annoying, it may be distracting you from what really matters. As the world gets faster, it turns out that the glacial changes of years and decades are become more important, not less.
In previous OSNews articles I've claimed that discarded computers up to ten years old can be refurbished and made useful to someone. They shouldn't be discarded. They should be refurbished -- fixed up and reused -- rather than recycled -- destroyed and separated into their constituent materials. So how does one do this? In this and several subsequent articles, I'll describe how to revitalize older computers.
Vendor Relationship Management. VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better ways of engaging with vendors. The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.
In a narrow sense, VRM is the reciprocal — the customer side — of CRM (or Customer Relationship Management). VRM tools provide customers with the means to bear their side of the relationship burden. They relieve CRM of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," "lock in," "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.
One possible future beyond normal advertising, and the seduction of the customer. In effect it reverses the process, and gives the customer the customer the tools to seduce the "merchant."
If you travel away from your office with a Windows notebook PC, it's useful to always have the notebook's hard drive updated with the latest files from your office's Linux server. This article describes how we setup a client's notebook PC to do this download.
Self-confessed techno-luddite Owen Ryder smells a rat.
“Answer me this,” he says. “Why should I have to keep re-buying what I’ve already got just because other people have fallen for the marketing hype put out on the latest gadgets?”
In a time of economic uncertainty, he may have a point. Accelerating technological progress means that manufacturers now offer new gizmos faster and in more variations than ever before. Nokia’s UK website currently lists over 100 models of mobile phone – and yet they all use the same network to call or text as phones that were released a decade ago.
Sality is a highly virulent strain. It is known to infect other files (making full removal after infection challenging), copy itself to removable media, disable security, and then download other malware. It is also a very large family—one of the most prevalent families this year. After the inclusion of the .LNK vector, the numbers of machines seeing attack attempts combining malicious .LNKs and Sality.AT soon surpassed the numbers we saw with Stuxnet.
Thankfully Microsoft is releasing an out of band update to fix this, but the depth at which these viruses are able to compromise systems is becoming frightening.
be content with what you have, be concerned for others and how your choices effect them, and most of all take responsibility for your choices and consumption. We all have to consume, but when we try to see our modern consumption through Biblical and ethical values, it should drastically change how we do it. This is just one more way to rethink our ethics in a digital world.
the only way to understand the slavish adoration and over-the top financial success of Apple and its "Jesus Phone" (the iPhone) is to understand its minimalist, white-walled stores as the new churches of the tech generation.
"The religious-like behavior and language surrounding Apple devotion/fandom is an example of 'implicit religion,'" Prof. Heidi Campbell, one of the authors of the study, told FoxNews.com.
A revealing look at todays society. I do not wish to bash Apple. From a technological perspective the software running the Mac has some of the strongest technological underpinnings, in terms of building on existing code that works. Linux to has a strong background that deserves to be respected.
That said its sad to see the substitution of mankind's effort for an appreciation of the supernatural. Apparently the belief in the natural evolution of mankind continues...
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