Do we need a website?
Of course the question now is do we need to spend money on a hosting service? Blogs can be had freely through services like blogger, wordpress, and vox. Without much fuss you can share your photos for free on flickr, you can share your files for free on Box.net, and you can add your microblogging status on your blog's page through twitter.
Was there something else I didn't cover? Now granted, having a provider that gives me a free domain, wordpress, plus PHP/MySQL webspace for $180/3 years is a pretty good deal, but it just dawned on me that I could give it all up, pay $20/year for a domain, and have my wordpress blog be the "homepage" and links on the sidebar can contain the rest of my content. I guess it's easier than ever for the layman to express himself online these days.
Leveraging my strategic assets for a synergistic paradigm shift
“PMP certified IT Project Manager with over fifteen years of experience with the ability to leverage her proven record of strategic leadership in solving complex business problems, increase ROI and decrease CTO, as part of a collaborative work environment.”
Maybe it’s the fact that I am sensitive to business bull after having listened to the Bullfighter’s guide, but all I can say is WOW! I can’t really believe that she speaks about herself in the third person and has one sentence so fortified with business bull. Now, I don’t know this person, but if I were a hiring manager I would say that there is a lot of smoke blow from her direction. I personally prefer to more personal blurb. You can be a high powered whatever, but making your blurb more personal shows that you are a person and thus, in my opinion, more valuable to the organization than a business bull automaton.
Just my two cents…
BeOS news galore (April fool’s!)
MSN is not “chutting” down
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, here is what instigated that reaction. Over the past year or so I’ve been getting emails from my friends, similar to the one bellow, with subjects such as “MSN is shutting down”, “MSN will stop being free”, or the most recent “MSN is chutting down” (chutting? Was the person who wrote the email from Spain or something?)
The rationale that these dimwits are putting forth for their really annoying email is a news story from the BBC from September 2001. Well, guess what, it’s 2008 and Microsoft is still not charging anyone to use their basic services (which include msn spaces, hotmail and MSN Live messenger).
I have high regard for my friends, I do believe that they are intelligent people, but every time I get a message like this in my mailbox I tend to question how much critical thinking my friends do. If you look at the message (beyond the out-dated article), the email message has many grammatical errors, IT USES THE ANNOYING CAPS LOCK TO GRAB YOUR ATTENTION, the directors are tara and john and they claim that inconsiderate people are taking up all the usernames (really? Wow! It’s Y2K all over again!)
I urge my friends to STOP, for a moment. READ their email messages. Critically THINK about the content of that email message, and then take appropriate action. In this case creating a new email message, copying, and pasting this text in the body of the new message and sending it to your friends is not the appropriate action. The appropriate action is hitting the delete button. You are intelligent people, don’t spread this kind of non-sense on the internet!
Your MSN buddy did become blue by the way, he held his breath until he became blue in the face…
Hey it is tara and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption but msn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people are taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for just one person), we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close your account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. If you would like to keep your account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. This is no joke, we will be shutting down the servers. Send it on, thanks. WHO EVER DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND YOU WILL COST 10.00 A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS or REPLAY. COPY THE WHOLE EMAIL. GO BACK TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. AND PASTE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION. It's no joke if you don't believe me then go to the site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm ) and see for yourself. Anyways once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your msn dude will become blue
New age Management
When I go to the library, I tend to just stick to three sections (1) Technology - where I can go and get how-to books on 'new' technologies such as AJAX, (2) Animé - Where I can go get my dose of Sci-Fi excitement (X/1999) and drop-to-your-knees comedy (Sgt. Frog), and (3) Movies - If you are patient, the public library gets all the new movies, just request it and when it is available you will get to see it. I know it's a bit of a Soviet way of thinking, but if I really, really, really want to see a movie, I will just get it on on-demand, but by-en-large I can wait - but I diverge!
Recently my wife was looking in the business section of the library, because she wanted to have a look at what people have been writing about small businesses, so I ventured into the business section of the library with her. I noticed a whole heck of a lot of new age management books (with titles similar to the comic strip above). Some methodologies are OK, and can work, some are just total crap, but as the comic strip says 'it's crazy enough, it might just work!" When people try to implement an improvement strategy, based on one of these books, they
focus too much on the actual strategy and methodology itself and not on what they actually want to accomplish! Which is why things fail.
This reminds me of our library's BUM meetings (an unfortunate acronym, I know!). This was a prelude to the strategic planning meetings that we would later have. The point of the meeting, like all Strategic Planning Meetings, was supposed to be where do we see the library in 10 years and what is our action plan? OK. What did it devolve to? Instead of discussing goals, objectives and action plans for the future, we started talking about HEADLINES - yes! Headlines we would like to see in the newspaper about the library! The New age management BS-o-meter went off when I heard the plan of what we were doing. It could have stayed on point, it could have worked, but it didn't. People spent too much time stressing about the headlines to actually think of the basics of any Strategic Plan such as a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis!!!
Now this incident was many, many months ago, perhaps even last semester. There are no more BUM meetings (thank God!), but they have been replaced by actual strategic planning committees which now, thankfully, involve all library staff (after all, any good manager knows that good ideas float to the top, but if you don't involve the line workers, you don't have the opportunity to have them float up). To my knowledge, we have not had any strategic planning meetings, sub-meetings, pre-meetings, or even water-cooler talk! I wonder if people are still stick on the Headlines - extra extra, read all about it!
Boss Coffee
Smartphone Primer 2007 Ready!
Anyway, if you are considering the purchase of a smartphone (of any kind), have a look at this rather lengthy article I wrote on smartphones.
Enjoy!
Cold and Wet Marathon Monday
Today it's cold, and wet...and windy! I've been living in the area since 1994, and I don't recall ever having such bad weather on marathon monday!
The Boston Athletics Association, the organizers of the marathon, have arranged for busses to pick up marathon runners 'who just had too much' and don't want to continue running. While I think that there should be emergency crews on stand by, in case of medical emergency, I think it is counter to the spirit of the marathon to provide transportation to quitters. Running a marathon is no simple task, I would not be able to do it (at least in the shape I am in), but if I were to run that would imply that I put a lot of work into it, which means that neither rain, nor slow, nor sleet, nor ice, nor gale force winds would keep me from running/sprinting/jogging/power walking across that finish line. Don't be a quitter!
Just my 2 cents - good luck to all runners
Happy Easter!
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18, Aυγούστου 2004: νεα
Την επόμενη μέρα οι εφημερίδες έγραψαν πώς το κοινό δεν δέχτηκε τους Αμερικανούς με αρκετή "αγάπη" επειδή δεν είχαν αρκετά χειροκροτήματα . Φίλοι και φίλες, όταν ένας Αμερικανός μπαίνει στο στάδιο δεν είναι ανάγκη να ξεσηκωθεί το κοινό για να δείξει αγάπη και σεβασμό για τους αθλητές ενός Κράτους! Οι Αμερικανοί δέχτηκαν με το ίδιο σεβασμό όπως και οι αθλητές από άλλα κράτη Επιπλέον, αν υπάρχουν μερικά "μπού" και μερικά κακά σφυρίγματα, αυτό είναι κατανοητό, έτσι δεν είναι; Το γεγονός είναι ως εξής - Μερικοί σε γουστάρουν, άλλοι σε μισούν, και άλλοι, δεν τους καίγεται καρφί! Έτσι είναι η ζωή φίλε μου! Αν εσύ νομίζεις πώς όλοι σε αγαπάνε, και άμα προσπαθείς να μετρήσεις αυτή την αγάπη και τον σεβασμό μέσω των χειροκροτημάτων, τότε...κούνια που σε κούναγε φιλαράκι μου! Α ναι, ξέχασα, ο διορθωτής μου τα έχει παίξει όποτε όλα τα οπότε μάλλον θα υπάρχουν πολλά ορθογραφικά - λολ
Αυτά προς για τώρα, θα επιστρέψω σύντομα
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I was also blown away by what some of the commentators in wrote in newspapers - whine about the lukewarm reception of the US olympic team. Just because Americans are entering the stadium doesn't mean that the crowd should go wild. The Americans got just as much applause as any other nation that entered that arena. Furthermore any minor boo-ing or hissing is understandable, is it not? There is a mentality present in the USA whereby if something is wrong we act as if it is not making elaborate gestures to prove that nothing is wrong when in reality something is bothering us- this is not how most of the world operates. The fact of the matter is that some people will like you, others will not, and others will be indifferent, that is life. If you want to pretend that everyone likes you and you are basing that on the amount of applause you get - man are you in for a rude awakening!
That's all for now - more soon
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Τώρα ίσως να αναρωτιέστε τι κάνω από εδώ και πέρα. Διαβάζω για εισαγωγικές εξετάσεις και κάνω τα χαρτιά μου για τα μεταπτυχιακά. Θα παρακολουθήσω μαθήματα για διπλό μεταπτυχιακό στην Διοίκηση επιχειρήσεων και στην πληροφορική. Από Σεπτέμβρη με Δεκέμβρη έχω "διακοπές" από τα θρανία (αν και θα κάνω μαθήματα Ρωσικών και Κινέζικω&nu
Τώρα όσο αφορά την ιστοσελίδα, θα έχετε παρατηρήσει πώς υπάρχουν μερικές αλλαγές. Έφυγαν οι πολλές γλώσσες γιατί είχαν αρκετά λάθει. Αυτό εδώ θα είναι το Λουκ τις ιστοσελίδα για τα ερχόμενα χρόνια, οπότε θα μεταφράζω την σελίδα σε δύο γλώσσες κάθε χρόνο. Αυτή η σελίδα θα είναι κάπως σαν BLOG, δηλαδή κάτι σαν ημερολόγιο στο ίντερνετ.
Οτιδήποτε είχε σχέση με το Yahoo το έβγαλα από την σελίδα γιατί δεν πήγαινε άλλο. Αναβάθμισα και τον κώδικα HTML του ιστοτόπου. Σε κάνα δυο χρόνια (όταν έχω τον χρόν&omicron
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You might be wondering what is next in the grande schedule of life. Well first of all I will continue to work! Secondly I will be entering Graduate school after one semester. I want to pursue an MBA degree as well as a Masters in Computer Science (and learn a few more languages of course). Until I start classes I will take a semester "off" from regular classes and audit chinese (mandarin) courses.
Now in terms of the website, you probably noticed that it looks different. I think that a radical change was appropriate for several reasons. The first reason is that having completed my Bachelors, I thought that I had to make a few changes in terms of the user Interface. The old user interface was not as good as it could have been. Secondly the old content was out-dated, there were invalid links, problems with translations, and the site was made up like Frankenstein. It was all pieces that were unrelated and put together in unrelated ways. That is not good.
Finally yahoo! I did not have the money to keep paying yahoo for web-space, and I had a lot of yahoo dependent code. This was an opportunity to purge the yahoo dependent code from my site and start all over with something new and exciting.
I have modified old sections, I have added new, and removed old ones. The music mix was, is and will be one of the main features of club admiralty since the main purpose of the site is to expose the listener to new kinds of music, and to a lesser extent technology and entertainment.
