Be yourself - Everyone else is taken (Oscar Wilde)
What lives dies.
Animal,
vegetable,
enterprise.
No escape.
Not even the wise.
None!
But one—propagation!
Conceive of this:
A stratified
calcified
petrified
Enterprise
in desperation
forgoes habitual cloning
and Tolerates
(allows)
permits. . . .
genuine
birth.
What’s happening with Moodle at the moment?
“Rewarding success is easy, rewarding intelligent failure is more important” (Bill Harris, Intuit)
In this post at LifeDev less is more is definitely true.
The way that great men organised their time is a reminder to all of us that busyness is not always the answer. I think that part of it is about using our most productive times productively.
I know that for myself productiveness also comes in cycles beyond the daily routine. I might have a week where I am incredibly productive and then have another week where I just get the everyday stuff done.
I think one of the hardest things to recognise that after a cycle of productivity comes the routine of making the creation work. Thats hard work and requires perserverance.
All of us in community – and especially, perhaps the people with responsibility – can carry a load of frustration which cannot always be expressed in a group without endangering the community itself. The more sensitive we are, the more we are weighed down by those feelings of frustration, anger, anxiety, incompetence, sadness, and apathy. We have a tremendous need to pour all of this out to someone in whom we feel secure. We may need to say how much we detest someone who challenges us, without being accused of a ‘lack of charity’. We may need this outlet for our emotions if we are to refind peace. But the person who becomes our ‘dustbin’ has to have the wisdom to collect all this without getting worked up about it, without trying to set everything right and without either judging or enjoying it; nor should they encourage bad feeling.
Jean Varnier, ‘Community and Growth’, p.142.
A Time to Talk
by: Robert Frost
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
I was reading through the story of brining mobile phones to Bangladesh. Its the tale of GrameenPhone — a partnership between Norway’s Telenor and Grameen Bank, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize — illustrates a new approach to building business opportunities in the developing world.
“Nothing good in society ever started out big,” says Quadir: verything good, whether it’s a company or an institution, tarts small and grows and spreads. If the idea is no good, it doesn’t spread, and no harm is done.” source
Iqbal Quadir’s story is worth the read.
I really enjoy blogging. Even though it might be hard to see that from my level of blogging at the moment. I read quite a few blogs each day through Bloglines and I think that I can safely say that blogs that just talk about blogging end up being repetitive. After all there is only so much you can say about writing posts and ads.
I realise that my blog is not the best example of how to make a successful blog but I love it anyway. It follows no rules, it is rambling and shifts in its focus but its fun and like the fact that I can post here whenever I want.
If your speech needs to be prefaced by an apology…
don’t give it. (seth)
I know I am very new to ubuntu. I’ve made the switch almost completely and am very rarely using windows anymore.
However I have a file server setup at home and was accessing it from windows xp mapping it as a network drive. The problem I had when starting to use Ubuntu was that although I could access the files I couldn’t save them back to the server.
I found the answer in the samba config file. Permissions are everything.
It works!
Clip from the 1967 film 1999 A.D. in which we see the family of the future shopping, paying bills and using electronic mail from home.
Theodore Roosevelt said “The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
I have enjoyed many of the articles that have been written by Freelance Switch. Even though they are only 6 months old they have build an impressive following.
I especially liked this tool the hourly rate calculator.
Lois Kelly is the author of Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Did you know that the ability to understand a joke is one of the signs of being human.
This is why humor, in a way, is a sort of Turing test for humans. One of the surest ways to figure out that someone comes from a totally different background, culture, generation, whatever, is to make a joke … and then realize they’re staring at you with a completely blank expression.
The article talked about the difficulty programmers have making a computer understand humour. One group have developed an AI program that understands knock knock jokes. But, these are the simplest jokes there are. And even that sounded like a mammoth project.
So perhaps to redefine Descartes,
“I laugh, therefore I am human.”
I was just thinking about the different operating systems that I am using at the moment.
Linux is great. For most of the basic functions it does everything very competently. And, once you get the hang of it it is easy to add stuff that you need as you go along. It is also a great conserver of resources. Want to get a bit more life out of that old computer then linux may be the answer for you.
