Month: July 2009
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Sometimes, we need to stop focusing on all the negative that’s been happening in our world. There’s a lot of good still happening, we just need to stop, listen to some good music relax. Don’t forget to SMILE 🙂 The song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin keeps coming into my head. I wanted…
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ACM membership is a great value
I am a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. One of the membership benefits is access to SafariBooksOnline.com, books24x7.com and elementK.com These online book services provide a large selection of current books with relevant topics that fall under Business, Personal Improvement, Engineering, IT and Technical areas. These books, in my opinion, would be useful to just about any…
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An Eagle Scout’s Wisdom
In Boy Scouts they teach some basic rules to live by: Scout Motto – “Be Prepared” Scout Slogan – “Do a good turn daily” Scout Oath – “Duty to God”, “Help people”, “Physically strong”,”Mentally awake”,”Morally straight” Scout Law – “Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent” The Scouting program also…
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TiVo and Netflix a dynamic duo
Congratulations TiVo team for a job well done. First, the user interface is so simple, anyone in my household can use it. It isn’t complicated at all. The audio & visual feedback help make it so easy. Second, teaming up with Netflix to provide video on demand was such a great decision. My wife and I have…
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Two heads are better than one
Over the past few weeks, I have been collaborating with one of my colleagues at Professional Resource Network. We have been developing a personal marketing presentation with a follow-on workshop. This has been a very educational experience for me. In order for anyone to teach a subject, they really need to understand it themselves. They…