Be yourself - Everyone else is taken (Oscar Wilde)
Being wealthy is a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things – Inspired by Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman
And this article also went on to add that,
Rich people spent much more time commuting and engaging in activities that were required as opposed to optional
A vital question that one must ask if they are wealthy is, how do I deal with its responsibility.
The rest of this article can be found here…..
What’s happening with Moodle at the moment?
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.
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.
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.
I never ceased to be amazed at the resources that are available on the web. I just came across this one. How to learn a foreign language.
Mango is a great too to be able to pick up some of the basics of a foreign language. Remember those tapes that you could buy years ago. They were very expensive. I was going to learn Japanese. I think my 7 year old daughter has surpassed me now.
A quick update on my use of Hoopaa.
During the first few days of use I couldn’t work out what was going wrong. I registered, downloaded but kept getting an error about a mismatched password. So I uninstalled, deleted my account and tried again. Still the same error. I checked again my password, tried to reset it but still kept getting an error message.
I sent an email to their support centre. Evidently it wasn’t just me that was having problems. Hoopaa had been overwhelmed with new users and as a result their servers had crashed.
Then a couple of days later I got an email saying that the problem had been corrected.
Ever since then it has been working perfectly. Every day I get an email report of where my kids have been on the internet. I can choose to rate the site. At this stage of life they are perfectly happy for me to set up the sites that they visit. But I am sure there will come a day when I don’t have as much say in what they do but I will still want to keep an eye on them.
Even though Hoopaa says that they only track Internet Explorer browsers it seems to be working when we use Firefox.
I had to laugh the other day when my 5 year old son Toby googled his name. He came up with hundreds of images. He called his mother over and told her to look at all the pages that were written about him
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This is just in case I am wondering where it is. The other day my phone went flat and I couldn’t work out how to turn it back on. The usual Nokia process didn’t work and I spent a desperate half an hour or so pressing and holding various keys on the phone. Nothing worked. I couldn’t find the manual so I had to go online to find one.
I went online and found one. If I lose it again I know where to go to straight away.
And also here for a live manual from Panasonic for my cordless home phone
I spend a lot of my time working at a computer. Most of the time I really enjoy it. I was just thinking about the many tools that I use that enable me to get my work done and I thought I should acknowledge some of them.
All of these contribute to what I do online and they do it for free. Because they have a belief that life is about contributing to others. The more that I use the web the more that I see the extent of this commitment and the benefits they bring to other people.
I was sitting here thinking and just wanted to say a quick thank you.
and do you want to get it for free……….
Then this is a great program for you.
The old way of using PrScr and then pasting into an editor is too slow. To meet this need there is a great range of screen capture software out there. You can do it online or you can download a number of programs.
This one is working for me. It is the Gadwin PrintScreen. I like it because of the hotkey function that allows you to select an area of the screen by pressing a hotkey and then capturing that area. You can then adjust the picture to the size that you want using a simple interface and there you have it. A very simple solution to a common need that I have in my computer use.
Great value all round in my opinion.
I have been using WordPress for quite a while for blogging. But more recently at another site I wanted a simple Content Management System this site. There are lots of options out there such as Joomla, Drupal and so on. But WordPress was more than enough to meet my needs to provide a simple publishing platform. Here is the simplest way that I have found and the procedure that I used:
Step One: Download the static front page plugin from here (http://www.semiologic.com/software/publishing/static-front/). And then upload it into your plugins directory.
Step Two: Create two pages. (Not posts). Called Home and Blog.
Step Three: Activate your plugin in your wordpress dashboard.
And its all done.
What happens now is that the “Home” page is the permanent front page and you will have another link to your blog that will display you blog posts as normal in reverse chronological order.
A couple of things that I went on to do:
Create a new home template. I did this because the one used from my blog posts still contained a date marker. I didn’t want this on my front page. I deleted the scripts that fetched the features that I didn’t want and then uploaded that into the theme directory.
I copied the blog template and then pasted it into notebook, (any text editor will do) and once I had changed it i saved it as home.php.
This is also a place that you can add the features that you want to your front page as well.
If ideas are the currency of our times then this is, undoubtedly, the Age of Conversation, for without the art of dialog, the cut and thrust of debate and discussion, then the economy of ideas would implode under its own heavy weight. Instead, the reverse is true. Far from seeing an implosion, we are living in a time of proliferation ideas build upon ideas, discussion grows from seeds of thought and single headlines give rise to a thousand medusa-like simulations echoing words whispered somewhere on the other side of the planet. All this in an instant. In what began as a half dare, the editors, Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan challenged bloggers around the world to contribute one page 400 words on the topic of œconversation. The resulting book, The Age of Conversation, brings together over 100 of the worlds leading marketers, writers, thinkers and creative innovators in a ground-breaking and unusual publication.
All proceeds from sales of the book will be donated to Variety, the Children’s Charity. The proceeds will be earmarked to help children in the authors home countries.
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