- An Einstein Ring is Not a Berliner;
- First in a Series: How Do You Organize Information? The Brain.
- Recent Posts by Three Prolific Bloggers.
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..alex.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
Monday, January 14, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Minute Tech 062: What is Tatting?
- Trading CES for MacWorld;
- Minute Tech Guest Carol Burrows on What is Tatting?
- Career Anchors - Discovery Your Real Values.
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..alex.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
- Minute Tech Guest Carol Burrows on What is Tatting?
- Career Anchors - Discovery Your Real Values.
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..alex.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Thoughts on Improvement
How to move up, how to move forward, how to organize, how to prepare?
These are all questions streaming through at an unbelievable clip.
Three primary things to work on here: my life, my podcast & blog, my learning. By discussing this process with myself, perhaps you'll glean something for yourself. :-)
I seek to organize the information that I've created, the information I see on a daily basis, the information I need to move forward and the information I'll be picking up on tomorrow. I'm thinking of various ways to do this: via a spreadsheet, via a database, via a wiki, or simply on this blog. The solution needs to be in part open, so that you can see the process I'm working on, and in part closed so that private info can remain private.
A key part of this need & movement to organize is discussing my premise for the Minute Tech podcast. I believe that all things impact our lives: temperature, humidity, negative or positive attitude, the carbs, fats and minerals we take in for sustenance or perceived pleasure, the presence of our solar system in the galaxy, the ability to reach out and learn every day, everything. Because of this, I believe that all that we interact with, all that aids us in interacting with our environment much like the construction and design of the hardware and software that the rover Opportunity uses to explore the Martian environment, can be considered technology.
There are those who agree on this issue and others who disagree that technology can have such a broad definition. How do you define technology?
Organizing (or the attempt, at any rate) is in itself the use of technology to get from point A to point B - from a point of less organization to a point of greater organization.
I will be starting with a new employer later this month. The role which I presently perceive that I'll be fulfilling will require much learning in a relatively short amount of time. How I manage this learning of both techniques and realms of information organization may well consume me (a portion of me) and take me in totally new directions of learning and development.
Or, I could sit on a couch and wait for oblivion to take hold. Uh, right.
How do you manage the incredible diversity of information thrown at you on a daily basis? Do you manage by, well, managing by natural ability? Or have you devised a method for handling the informational fire-hose?
Tomorrow morning I must push out the final needle-craft interview with Carol Burrows. After that, I will seek new topics for my weekly sets of Minute Tech discussions.
ttyl,
..alex.
These are all questions streaming through at an unbelievable clip.
Three primary things to work on here: my life, my podcast & blog, my learning. By discussing this process with myself, perhaps you'll glean something for yourself. :-)
I seek to organize the information that I've created, the information I see on a daily basis, the information I need to move forward and the information I'll be picking up on tomorrow. I'm thinking of various ways to do this: via a spreadsheet, via a database, via a wiki, or simply on this blog. The solution needs to be in part open, so that you can see the process I'm working on, and in part closed so that private info can remain private.
A key part of this need & movement to organize is discussing my premise for the Minute Tech podcast. I believe that all things impact our lives: temperature, humidity, negative or positive attitude, the carbs, fats and minerals we take in for sustenance or perceived pleasure, the presence of our solar system in the galaxy, the ability to reach out and learn every day, everything. Because of this, I believe that all that we interact with, all that aids us in interacting with our environment much like the construction and design of the hardware and software that the rover Opportunity uses to explore the Martian environment, can be considered technology.
There are those who agree on this issue and others who disagree that technology can have such a broad definition. How do you define technology?
Organizing (or the attempt, at any rate) is in itself the use of technology to get from point A to point B - from a point of less organization to a point of greater organization.
I will be starting with a new employer later this month. The role which I presently perceive that I'll be fulfilling will require much learning in a relatively short amount of time. How I manage this learning of both techniques and realms of information organization may well consume me (a portion of me) and take me in totally new directions of learning and development.
Or, I could sit on a couch and wait for oblivion to take hold. Uh, right.
How do you manage the incredible diversity of information thrown at you on a daily basis? Do you manage by, well, managing by natural ability? Or have you devised a method for handling the informational fire-hose?
Tomorrow morning I must push out the final needle-craft interview with Carol Burrows. After that, I will seek new topics for my weekly sets of Minute Tech discussions.
ttyl,
..alex.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Moving Forward!
Episodes 47 through 50 of the Minute Tech podcast dealt with mourning, due to the fact that my mother, the mother of 7 and the grandmother of 18, had died on December 8th. This past weekend my family laid her to rest beside her husband, Charles W. Landefeld, in a cemetary in Cleveland, Ohio. This burial activity allowed me to put into action some of the things I talked to you about in those 4 podcasts.
In some of the family's eulogies, I learned more about my mother than I learned from her. Often this is the case, that you learn more from others about someone close to you than you do from the person him or herself.
Most importantly I learned that my mother had brought up her kids in a spirit in which she'd been brought up: to continually learn, to seek to do the right thing for everyone, to be open to the world of ideas, thoughts and beliefs that our fellow humans hold close to their hearts and wear on their sleeves and to be assured that those who traditionally had been led to believe that they had a set role in life...were always in a position to set their own course.
Are you in a position in which you feel the path has been laid out for you? Do you not feel that you can guide your own ship through the waters of time? Please consider waking up to the idea that there are only certain parameters that are set in stone: the universe appears to be continually expanding, we each are governed by the force of gravity while on a planetary body, and we each must convert matter to energy and waste to survive within our environment.
No other parameters hold you down.
Now, what can you do? What should you do? What will you do?
..Alex.
In some of the family's eulogies, I learned more about my mother than I learned from her. Often this is the case, that you learn more from others about someone close to you than you do from the person him or herself.
Most importantly I learned that my mother had brought up her kids in a spirit in which she'd been brought up: to continually learn, to seek to do the right thing for everyone, to be open to the world of ideas, thoughts and beliefs that our fellow humans hold close to their hearts and wear on their sleeves and to be assured that those who traditionally had been led to believe that they had a set role in life...were always in a position to set their own course.
Are you in a position in which you feel the path has been laid out for you? Do you not feel that you can guide your own ship through the waters of time? Please consider waking up to the idea that there are only certain parameters that are set in stone: the universe appears to be continually expanding, we each are governed by the force of gravity while on a planetary body, and we each must convert matter to energy and waste to survive within our environment.
No other parameters hold you down.
Now, what can you do? What should you do? What will you do?
..Alex.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Tech Marches On!
Is Apple priming for a leap from sub-orbital to orbital?
Is Oil building to $150/bbl?
Will anyone build a sporty two-seat convertible that's economical and fun to drive?
Will the OLPC supplant the PC industry?
Are all cellphones destined to have visual voicemail?
Will iTunes and AppleTV wrest control of the one-eyed babysitter from the networks?
Will I enjoy working in a small web 2.0 company?
Are we going to see sensible presidential politics this year?
Will religion rise in popularity as uncertainty and volatility rise?
Who is the next Microsoft, Google, Apple, Nokia, Toyota, Sony or Facebook? Will you recognize it when you see it?
Where are the job opportunities?
Where are the housing opportunities?
Where are the fine and perfomance art opportunities?
Should you begin thinking about longevity, or continue hedonistically?
Should you learn continuously?
Should you write your will?
All these questions, and more, are the thoughts at the outset of a new year. Think about them. Write to me at Minutetech@gmail.com about your answers - I'll include them in an upcoming show.
Note: MinuteTech will be off the digital airwaves for a few days due to family events. I may squeeze one off, but don't expect one until Mon., Jan 7th.
:-)
Happy New Year...and start questioning the future!
..Alex.
Is Oil building to $150/bbl?
Will anyone build a sporty two-seat convertible that's economical and fun to drive?
Will the OLPC supplant the PC industry?
Are all cellphones destined to have visual voicemail?
Will iTunes and AppleTV wrest control of the one-eyed babysitter from the networks?
Will I enjoy working in a small web 2.0 company?
Are we going to see sensible presidential politics this year?
Will religion rise in popularity as uncertainty and volatility rise?
Who is the next Microsoft, Google, Apple, Nokia, Toyota, Sony or Facebook? Will you recognize it when you see it?
Where are the job opportunities?
Where are the housing opportunities?
Where are the fine and perfomance art opportunities?
Should you begin thinking about longevity, or continue hedonistically?
Should you learn continuously?
Should you write your will?
All these questions, and more, are the thoughts at the outset of a new year. Think about them. Write to me at Minutetech@gmail.com about your answers - I'll include them in an upcoming show.
Note: MinuteTech will be off the digital airwaves for a few days due to family events. I may squeeze one off, but don't expect one until Mon., Jan 7th.
:-)
Happy New Year...and start questioning the future!
..Alex.
Minute Tech 061: What is Knitting?
- Axiotron Releases the Modbook Tablet Mac;
- Minute Tech guest Carol Burrows on "What is Knitting?"
- and, My Single New Year's Resolution.
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..Alex.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
- Minute Tech guest Carol Burrows on "What is Knitting?"
- and, My Single New Year's Resolution.
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..Alex.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Minute Tech 060: Greetings and Salutations to 2008
- iJustine, iPod, iRentals and iStocks;
- 2008: The Year of Health, Wealth, Religion and Work;
- Learning to Tune the iWeb RSS Settings.
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..Alex.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
- 2008: The Year of Health, Wealth, Religion and Work;
- Learning to Tune the iWeb RSS Settings.
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..Alex.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
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