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Bookmarked 03/06/2010

2010-03-06T17:30:16Z

Six Simple Factors for Successful Goal Setting - by Dumb Little Man
tags: thinking, productivity, self, improvement
- - It must be stated with no alternatives
    In war, when lives are at stake, there is no alternative to victory. Seldom is there the same life and death consequence in the business world, but the stakes can feel just as high sometimes.
    
    When setting a goal, it must be stated with a firm “all-or-nothing” way of thinking. A soft goal isn’t really a goal at all – it’s a hope. You can hope to be successful or you can plan to be successful. Setting goals with no alternatives leads to the success you deserve.
  - It must be something you want to do
    At the end of the day, successful goal setting is about passion. If you have passion for a goal then you are more likely to accomplish it. Your passion gives you the energy to keep moving forward in spite of the negative voices you hear or the obstacles you encounter.
How to Reclaim Your Attention | Zen Habits
“3. Limit your communication time. Going into your email inbox? Just give yourself 10 minutes to read, reply, delete, and get out. Going to do Twitter? Give yourself 5 minutes. Seriously, set up a timer. Don’t let these things take up all your attention. 4. Give up on news. It’s a never-ending cycle. And if you’ve paid attention to the news as long as I have (I’m a former journalist), you know it’s all the same, year after year. Unless your job depends on it, the news is usually a waste of your attention. Let go of the need to stay updated. Even if your job does depend on it, keep it limited. 5. Be brief. Write brief emails, tweets, updates, blog posts. With some exceptions, of course. But make brief your de facto”
tags: thinking, productivity, self, improvement, attention
Framing Changes Everything
tags: thinking, productivity, self, improvement

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Bookmarked 03/02/2010

2010-03-02T17:30:27Z

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Bookmarked 02/23/2010

2010-02-23T17:30:21Z

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Bookmarked 02/21/2010

2010-02-21T17:30:18Z

Managing Groups and Teams/Motivation - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Motivational Myths McNamara discusses three motivational myths can help us better understand the process of motivation. The first myth is that one person can motivate another. This is simply not true. An employee has to motivate themselves. As a manager you have to establish an environment that will cultivate and bring forth the personal motivational factors of each individual. This can be accomplished through establishing team goals based on the goals of the individuals. If an individual is motivated towards a goal and the goal has no relation to the team goal, they will not continue to motivate themselves because their results will have no real team value. This is why it is important that managers fully and frequently discuss the organizational goals with their employees. The second myth is that money and fear are good motivators. According to McNamara, money can only help people from being less motivated. It does not typically increase motivation in an individual. Fear, like money, is only useful in the short term. The same repeated criticism or threat from a manager can negatively impact the motivation of the employee. “I know what motivates me, so I know what motivates my employees,” is the third myth. Everyone is different. Motivational factors can vary to every extreme. However, what can be uniform for everyone is the goal they are trying to reach. Managers need to identify and understand what motivates each employee to reach the common organizational goal. This can be done by asking, observing and listening to your employees. They will give tremendous insight into their motivational factors through their daily, menial conversations. Often what motivates an individual is what they show the most enthusiasm for. This needs to be followed up with sincere one-on-one meetings to discuss accomplishments and to modify goals based on evolving motivational factors.
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Bookmarked 02/18/2010

2010-02-18T17:30:19Z

IBM Research: Capture, Reuse and Share Your Web Browsing History With Friends and Colleagues - Try It Out and Tell Us What You Think
” CoScripter Reusable History is a new tool from IBM Research that extends the web history capability of your Firefox web browser. The tool is now available for download from the IBM Research Labs Experimental Technology site. I know what you’re thinking…I don’t use the built-in history tool in my web browser now, so why would I use CoScripter Reusable History? I think there are a couple answers. First, our new tool records history at the level of interactions, such as clicking on a link or entering text into a form field, instead of the typical page-based model of traditional web history systems. With today’s modern web sites, if I want to be able to navigate back to a page in the future, I often find that saving the URL is not sufficient. Instead, I need to remember the exact set of actions that took me to that page, which is exactly what CoScripter Reusable History does for me.”
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Bookmarked 02/16/2010

2010-02-16T17:30:21Z

Intel and Nokia Merge Software Platforms for Future Computing Devices
“Global leaders Intel Corporation and Nokia merge Moblin and Maemo to create MeeGo*, a Linux-based software platform that will support multiple hardware architectures across the broadest range of device segments, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.”
tags: open, source, mobile, platform
Highlights of Eben Moglen’s Freedom in the Cloud Talk - Software Freedom Law Center
“So we got an architecture that was very subject to misuse, indeed it was begging to be misused. Now we are getting the misuse we set up…There are a lot of reasons for making clients dis-empowered ... There are many overlapping rights owners, as they see themselves, each of whom has a stake in dis-empowering a client at the edge of the network. To prevent particular hardware from being moved from one network to another. to prevent particular hardware from playing music not bought at the monopoly of music in the sky.”
tags: open, source
LinuxPlanet - Interviews - What Matters to Open Source: Licensing or Community? - More to FOSS Than Licenses
”“I do believe that licensing is a key component that underpins a successful community effort,” Tiemann said. “The license, in a sense, dictates how the community can or should be expected to behave.” The OSI currently lists 66 open source approved licenses that together offer a broad set of options for open source. In recent years, even proprietary vendors like Microsoft have issued OSI-approved open source licenses. Among the most popular open source licenses is the GPL, which is a reciprocal license, meaning that if you make code changes, you are required to contribute them back. “If you have a GPL license, than you set a strong precedent and expectation that people are going to share and not take proprietary versions out of the system,” Tiemann said. “
tags: open, source, license
What Third Parties Know About John Doe | Freedom to Tinker
“Take for example the popular online blog Boing Boing. Upon loading its main page while recording the HTTP session, I noticed that my browser is automatically redirected to domains owned by no fewer than 17 distinct third party entities: 10 services that engage in advertising or marketing, five that embed media or integrate social networking functionality, and two that provide web analytics. By visiting this single webpage, my digital footprints have been scattered to and collected by at least 17 other online entities that I made no deliberate attempt to contact. And each of these entities will likely have stored a cookie on my web browser, allowing it to identify me uniquely later when I browse to one of its other partner sites. I don’t mean to pick on Boing Boing specifically—taking advantage of third party services is a nearly universal practice on the web today, but it’s exactly this pervasiveness that makes it so likely, if not probable, that all of my digital footprints together could link much of my online activities back to my actual identity”
tags: security, privacy

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Bookmarked 02/13/2010

2010-02-13T17:30:16Z

RHDR - The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is Kent’s mainline in miniature. First opened to traffic in July 1927 as the ‘World’s Smallest Public Railway’ and now covering a distance of 13.5 miles from the picturesque Cinque Port of Hythe, near the channel tunnel, to the fishermans cottages and lighthouses at Dungeness.
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Bookmarked 01/31/2010

2010-01-31T17:30:18Z

PocketSmith - Better budgeting with a calendar.
PocketSmith is a web-based calendar that forecasts your future cash position.
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Bookmarked 01/25/2010

2010-01-25T17:30:20Z

Shapeways | passionate about creating
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Bookmarked 01/24/2010

2010-01-24T17:30:20Z

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Bookmarked 01/22/2010

2010-01-22T17:30:15Z

E-Commerce News: Governance & Compliance: End-to-End Encryption: Beyond PCI Compliance
“However, complying with PCI DSS should not be considered a silver bullet for protecting information and battling fraud. Consider that many of the companies victimized by data breaches in the past several years were, in fact, found to be PCI-compliant prior to the breach. As fraudsters become more sophisticated and develop tactics for identifying and exploiting a given system’s vulnerabilities, it is important that organizations across all industries realize that comprehensive data protection requires technologies and processes that extend beyond the basic requirements outlined by PCI DSS.”
tags: ecommerce, security
http://www.tidendcottage.co.uk
tags: pub, dog
The Charles Lamb: Traditional Pub Local Pub London Public House Islington
“Welcome to The Charles Lamb Pub & Kitchen - a traditional friendly local pub. As a Free House we carry a good selection of Real Ales, Lagers and top shelf spirits. Our expanding wine list is a good representation of our taste in Old World Wines ~ and is also available off sale! We also offer an ever changing blackboard menu of traditional French and English dishes ~ mostly under £12. Sunday Roast every week ~ £12. Why not add a bloody good Bloody Mary - £4.”
tags: pub, dog
The Gowlett
“Hello and welcome to this the website for The Gowlett pub. We are a cracking local pub in Peckham, South London, always welcoming and always friendly. So we thought we should have a website to tell everyone what we’ve got going on and why they should come down and visit us… And as you sat by the computer, why not check out one of our latest online reviews - http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/pubsandbars/the-gowlett-review-17319.html Anyway, have a look around our site to get a taste of the flavours we offer, then find yourself some free time and come down to meet us… Children are welcome, with adults, until 9pm… Or perhaps if you need to bring work with you, then grab your laptop, come down and use or free wireless connection”
tags: pub, dog
Innventive Pubs
“The Telegraph has been reborn. A historic site, which now offers a contempory and stylish setting within a traditional country pub. In the heart of Putney Heath, The Telegraph offers classic food, a wonderful wine list and great British ales. There is food all day on Friday, Saturday and Sundays. We are open all day everyday from Midday till 11pm with varying hours for special events. We have a curry night on Thursdays, film club Mondays and cycling club Saturdays. “
tags: pub, dog
The Florence
“For casual dining, or just for drinks, we have open spaces and comfortable seats that lend themselves to all types of group bookings. Reserve an area with the kids in our conservatory, or for adults only in the front.”
tags: pub, dog
Pubs Where Dogs are Welcome - Recommended London Pubs where Dogs are Welcome, Dogs Welcome Bars and Pubs, London Dog Welcome Pubs
“London can at times feel like an unfriendly place if you happen to own a dog. Our guide to London pubs where dogs are welcome will enable your dog to remain your best friend. After all, there’s sacrifice and then there’s your social life. So grab the lead, take your mutt for a walk and then stop off at one of these London pubs where dogs are welcome.”
tags: pub, dog
Home - Old Neptune Whitstable
“The Old Neptune, Marine Terrace, Whitstable, Kent. There is always a warm welcome for those looking for a pint of beer, a glass of wine or, on colder days, a warm drink after a bracing walk along the beach. You can also enjoy live music Friday, Saturday and Sunday. These and other special events are listed on the Music and Events page above.”
tags: pub, walk, dog
Kings Head Deal B&B Bed and Breakfast and Channel Guest House Deal accommodation
“Overlooking the sea and only a quick stroll from the town centre of Deal in Kent (map) the King’s Head B&B & Channel View Guest House offer a unique opportunity for comfortable and affordable accommodation (tariff). You will be staying in a traditional English seaside inn, enjoying a high standard of bar food and locally brewed beers.”
tags: pub, walk, dog
Grange - Ealing Pub, Pub in Ealing, Bar in Ealing, Bar in W5
“Welcome to The Grange A beautiful, old Victorian building overlooking Ealing Common sets the scene for one of the best pubs in Ealing.”
tags: pub, walk, dog
B & B Sandwich, B&B Sandwich, Bed and Breakfast Sandwich - St Crispin Inn
“The St Crispin Inn is a 15th century traditional pub which also offers quiet en suite B&B accommodation with free WiFi internet access. It is located in the small country village of Word in Worth, only a mile or so from the mediaeval cinque port of Sandwich, in an area that was notorious for smugglers, who were known to frequent the Inn.”
tags: pub, walk, dog
The Green Man, Hodsoll Street, Kent. Pub & Restaurant. Kentish Pub, Maidstone, Food Served, Lunch, Sunday Roast, Quiz Night, Live Music, Large Beer Garden, Family Pub.
The Green Man is a friendly, family run pub located in the picturesque hamlet of Hodsoll Street on the North Downs in beautiful Kent countryside. Your hosts are David, Jean and John Haywood and they lead a team of talented people who are there to ensure everyone has a great time. The extensive menu is prepared fresh to order from the finest ingredients and has something to suit all tastes. The cask ales and lagers are well kept and fine wines and spirits are available for those who do not enjoy a good pint. The Green Man features a large garden to the rear of the building with ample car parking making it an ideal watering hole during your tour of Kent whether it be a simple visit to the country, a shopping trip to Bluewater, a sporting occasion at Brands Hatch or on route to France via Eurostar or the Kent ports.
tags: pub, walk, dog
THE DOVE INN, DARGATE : Shepherd Neame
“Super pub, superb food! The Dove is the only pub in the village of Dargate, which is just off the A299 between Faversham and Whitstable. Telephone: 01227-751360 The Dove is a quaint Victorian country public house with scrubbed pine floors and tables. Wonderful large formal garden - complete with dovecote and doves..”
tags: pub, walk, dog
The Greyhound - Home - Charcott, Chiddingston
“The Greyhound is situated in the hamlet of Charcott near Chiddingstone Causeway and is a traditional country pub with a large beer garden and open log fires. We offer fine cask conditioned beer, a selection of affordable wines, freshly home-cooked food and a relaxing atmosphere for people who like to meet, talk, eat and drink.” For bookings please phone 01892 870275
tags: pub, walk, dog
Pub in Knockholt Kent – The Three Horseshoes
The Three Horseshoes Pub in Knockholt Kent is the ideal pub for good food, beer, fine wines and live music. Our pub regularly hosts classic car rallies and live music. If you want a family pub or restaurant in Knockholt, Kent why not come and see us.
tags: dog, walk, pub, kent
The Marine Tankerton near Whitstable Kent UK
“The Marine Hotel, which sits on the Tankerton cliffs overlooking the Thames Estuary, is a popular, friendly ‘local’ for its regular customers as well as a top class hotel for visitors - “
tags: pub, hotel, walks, dog
The Munday Bois—Home Page
“The Mundy Bois combines the warmth of a traditional Kentish country freehouse with a first-class restaurant. Situated off the beaten track between the villages of Pluckley, Egerton and Smarden, The Mundy Bois lies in farmland in the heart of the Weald of Kent—‘Darling Buds of May’ country. Our blackboard menus change daily, and offer both gastro dining and traditional bar meals. We are committed to freshly prepared food using local produce. Our fish is selected by our chef direct from the market. Our meat and poultry is sourced from local farms. On Sundays, we feature a traditional roast lunch with a choice of meats and poultry. In the Village Bar you will find a range of real ales, lagers and quality wines by the glass. The patio and the garden offer al fresco eating. And for the kids, there is an adventure playground. Or you can enjoy a game of pool in the games room.”
tags: pub, walks, dog
The Home of Dog Friendly Holiday Accommodation - Dogs Invited. Pets welcome.
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Bookmarked 01/20/2010

2010-01-20T17:30:21Z

Analyze HTML Elements & Microformats w/ Semantic Checker | Search Engine Journal
“Semantic Checker is a new and still experimental Firefox addon (download it here) highlighting semantic elements in the web page you are currently viewing. The tool should be used for on-page analysis as well for educational purposes (to see which sites are introducing new HTML elements and microformats, for example). “
tags: web, semantic, browser, firefox
SenseBot and other products by Semantic Engines
SenseBot (Beta) is a semantic search engine that generates a text summary of multiple Web pages on the topic of your search query. It uses text mining and multidocument summarization to extract sense from Web pages and present it to the user in a coherent manner. A “Semantic Cloud” of concepts is displayed above the summary, allowing to steer the focus of the results. Online service, installable product, SAAS, API etc.
tags: search, semantic
Restoring Stained Glass and Decorative Glass panels.
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Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr
Recently, however, the popular open source search library, Apache Lucene, and the powerful Lucene-powered search server, Apache Solr, have added spatial capabilities. Lucene and Solr committer Grant Ingersoll walks you through the basics of spatial search and shows you how to leverage its capabilities to power your next location-aware application. If you are interested in building out a more significant GIS application, you will need to add much more sophisticated capabilities for route finding, shape intersection, and a great deal more. But if you need to build out a solid search application that combines the structure of point-based locations with unstructured text, then look no further than Lucene and Solr.
tags: search, semantic, solr, apache, lucene, geolocation

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Bookmarked 01/18/2010

2010-01-18T17:30:21Z

451 CAOS Theory » A capitalist’s guide to open source licensing
The truth is, however, that for vendor-initiated open source projects it is hard to build a true collaborative community. This is true of the vendor is generating revenue directly from the project in the form of support/subscriptions, but especially so if the vendor in question elects to exert copyright control in order to generate revenue directly from that open source project via dual or open-core licensing strategies.
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Games Addict: Bargains noticed in the sales (updated)

2010-01-16T19:41:45Z

I know I have too many unplayed games (and havent even updated the embarrassing list with what I bought the last few months…) but it will be hard to resist to get my hands on games that were on my watchlist they get below £10! I need help :D

This weekend only: Company of Heroes Gold £7.49 Impulse (bought)

Company of Heroes: Gold Edition

This weekend only: Sins of a Solar Empire £10.49 Impulse (already own it)

This weekend only: Mr. Robot £6.49 Impulse (looks like a fun indie)

Mr. Robot

Still going:

Planescape Torment, £9.73 thehut (own the original)

Borderlands, £12.73 , TheHut (not going to resist much longer but resisting as I have yet to even install all my recent purchases)

Demigod, £7.98, Gameplay (bought)

Warhammer Online, £5.98, GAME (I already own it)

Champions Online £9.98 GAME

Silent Hunter IV Wolves of the Pacific $14.99 Steam (bought when it was 9.99)

Red Faction Guerilla, £7.98, Gameplay (compare to $19.99 in the Steam Sale) (tempted…)

Fallout 3, £6.98, Gameplay (bought)

World of Warcraft - Battlechest, £6.98, Gameplay (cheaper than a 30 day sub)

~~Assassins Creed Directors Cut $9.99 Steam~~

~~Defense Grid, $2.49, Steam~~ (now 6.99) (bought)

~~S.T.A.L.K.E.R $1.99 Steam~~

~~Mirror’s Edge $4.98 Steam~~

~~Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy $3.40 Steam~~

Steam has a huge sale but most titles in it that I checked are cheaper elsewhere, so do check unless you like the steam friends connection - I listed some of the bargains below. Impulse has a sale on older titles, I picked up a few action titles (for example the shadowgrounds set) and Fallen Earth at a bargain price (gone up a little again, but still half RRP), Eve Online is $9.99 as well. Torchlight seems $9.99 everywhere

I managed to buy Fallen Earth twice during the sale, that’s how bad I was!

Gog.com had 30 to 45% off on most of their catalogue - at $3.89 I bought some I already own on original CDs for the convenience of the configuration for Vista/Windows 7 compatibility. Games include: All Might&Magic & HOMM, the Descent series, Ground Control Series, Earth 21.. series, Hostile Waters (a firm favorite of mine), Sacrifice (another favorite), Spellforce (another favorite), Disciples 2 (cheaper than the Steam sale), Giants, tons more . And yes, I bought a few I already own, just for the ease of playing them again, and the soundtrack and other extras.

These are of course biased to games I noted in the past, plenty more bargains out there. Let me know if you find better ones!

Bookmarked 01/16/2010

2010-01-16T17:30:17Z

HowTo: Launch a terminal app from a shortcut on Nokia N900 | The Maemo
On the N900, it is possible to run a terminal program like ‘top’ directly from the Desktop/Shortcut
tags: n900, tips
A Guide to Maemo Extras for More Nokia N900 Applications
An easy way to browse and install applications from ‘Extras’ is by going to downloads.maemo.org from the Nokia N900’s web browser. You can install the apps by simply clicking on the green arrows. You should also enable the repository in Application manager so that the N900 receives update notifications for the apps. The Extras repository is supposed to be pre-configured in the Nokia N900 but is disabled by default.
tags: n900, tips

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