I recently read a post on Stepcase Lifehack about 42 Practical Ways to Improve Yourself. Many of the items on this list were intriguing, but I really liked two of them.
1. Stop Watching TV – TV is a complete waste of time. Americans spend about 50% of their free time watching the idiot box. There are so many things that you could be doing instead of wasting your time watching TV. Gary V said it best, “STOP WATCHING F’ING LOST!”
2. Avoid negative people – Simply put, life is too short to deal with these people. Always be positive, and you’ll spread your positivity to those around you. But if someone is consistently dragging you down the negativity path, please avoid them.
I’ve played with Google Chrome a little bit, it seems slightly faster than Firefox or Internet Explorer, but that could just be because it’s new and it seems fatster to the human mind.
My problem with Google Chrome, though, is that there are no add-ins (a.k.a extensions). I am a heavy user of Firefox add-ins. Without Adblock Plus, Googlepedia, Last Tab, Better Amazon, Download Statusbar, and Foxmarks, I would be totally lost!
“We don’t have that in the beta today, but we definitely plan an extension API,” or application programming interface, Sundar Pichai, a Google vice president of product management, said at the Chrome launch event here Tuesday. “It is one of the things we will get to next.”
.. but until they do, I can’t stand to use it daily.
A commercial that is both inspiring and clever resonates in the minds of its watchers.
I recently saw this commercial on the Discovery Channel. It’s quite clever – incorporating most of the on-screen talent across all of the Discovery Channel’s shows. For example, Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs sings “I love real dirty things,” and Bear Grylls says “I love arachnids.” Good stuff.
Plus, check out the XKCD comic 442 featuring this commercial.
For the past 10+ years, I’ve been using Agenda planners by Premier. They are always high quality, and I love vertical columns, which they offer in a few of their products. Their small agenda is only 5″x8″ and used to have vertical columns – it worked very well for me for many years.
This year, however, Premier decided not to make a 5×8 vertical column agenda! I am crushed. Vertical columns are better for tracking schoolwork, assignments, and exams, because work that doesn’t get done can easily be “pushed” to the next day with an -> arrow. Also, the right-hand side of the day column can be used as a check-mark area, so I can easily tell if that day’s task in that particular subject are complete. This is something that horizontal date-block style planners just do not allow.
Why are vertical columns not as popular as horizontal blocks? I really can’t understand how people think the other way is efficient. Has anyone else had problems finding their perfect day/school planner? I now have to find a different company to find my planner – any suggestions?
Although I’m not sure if internet filtering plays a good or bad role in our schools, I did find this comment in an MSDN blog to be totally true – that is, I definitely experienced this when I was in high school.
The students are blowing through the filters as if they were not even there. Anyone who believes otherwise is only fooling themselves. Do you think students are not laughing themselves silly at getting to sites they know their teachers can’t get to? How much does that do for teaching respect for teachers, schools and authority in general?
At my school, there was certainly not enough IT support to fight the onslaught of new proxy websites and game sites every day. Even with automatic updates to the banned sites lists, it seemed like most students knew a way to get around the filters.
