The format so far is such; We will have a conference line so you can hear us, and a Jabber/TalkShoe for receiving questions/votes.  We then relay over SharedView, a Microsoft tool that allows us to share our desktop and present (currently 15 live participant view/presentation cap), or have a viewer take the screen, present their desktop and optionally allow other participants to control his or her mouse/keyboard.

Starting promptly, until +3 minutes will be an initial vote, followed by 2 minutes of prioritization. The remaining 55 minutes are dedicated to the goals at hand.  Any suggestions on actionable, efficient and appropriate techniques on approach to resolve the issue will be heard, alternative means may also be assessed or heard (i.e. we may solve your problem 2 or more times!!).  Comments, addendums, follow-up or post-hour suggestive measures can be filed at the hours section on our website.

We do not prescribe to be the only source of answers, nor do we guarantee any answers.  During the prioritization step, we will select some time limit per action item, if we are not close to a solution when resolving any topic, we will move on, but may re-address in following broadcasts or after the last action item in the current show.

Popular issues may demand a special format, where simply a single topic is addressed, though Q/A may be done throughout.  Perspective guest chairs are welcome to email hours  = shift+two=  security-objectives.com, for suggestions or notice of availability.  If you have no problems (and are not in heaven yet), feel free to watch, however we request that you do not view until after the initial 5 minute period, giving those with problems sufficient time to elicit support and have priorities weighed.  If possible, co-view if there are multiple individuals at the same physical location.  Also, during the session, we will post the topics--if you are a domain expert and the show is live, please let us know (Jabber/TalkShoe server) so we may open a reserved seat for the party to be aiding and abetting.

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1.  Access my tasks everywhere via PC or iPhone

2.  Access my tasks when disconnected from the internet

3.  Use voice to leave tasks

4.  Tasking needed to be rich and support GTD, sub-tasks, and re-occurring tasks

5.  Share my tasks

As it turns out, none of the products out there support all these features.  However, there is a simple combination of these products that works extremely well.  Toodledo satisfies 1, 4 and 5.  Jott (the on-line app) satisfies 3.  And Appigo's Todo native app satisfies 2.

Toodledo is a full featured online todo/tasking application equal to or better then Remember the Milk (http://www.toodledo.com/info/compare.php).  It fully supports GTD and has a very nice UI for online use and a great iPhone webapp for iphone use.

Jott, the online application, allows one to call in and leave a voice message that it will transcribe and send to your contacts.  Basically, you call Jott and it asks you "who do you want to Jott?".  You say the contact and speak your message.  This message is transcribed and sent to your contact.  Contacts are emails set up via internet.  Beleive it or not, Jott intergrates with Toodledo...just another contact!

Appigo's Todo native app syncs with Toodledo and thus provides the offline capability.

So here is how I use the system:

-Get up in the morning, peruse tasks on iPhone, and percolate what needs to get done for the day.

-As I walk around and begin my day I will occasionally call into Jott and add tasks.  But since I usually remember things while driving to work that is when Jott gets a full workout.

-When I get to work, I use my pc and Toodledo online application to manage all my work todo/tasking.  Since all the Jotted task go to an inbox since they do not come in organized (no folder, context, or tag associations), I will usually take a couple of minutes to organize them.

-While at work, my wife has access to my todo/tasks and can add stuff to the honeydo folder :)

-At meetings and about I use both the Toodledo webapp and Appigo's Todo (when disconnected) on the iPhone and capture todo/tasks.

-Again, while driving home and sorting through the day Jott gets a heavy workout.

-At home and about on errands I will mostly use the iPhone and Toodledo webapp.

One last thing people ask me is how to organize their todo/tasking.  My method is simple.  I only have 4 bins (folders) for my tasks: Work, Personal, Honeydo, and No Folder (inbox).  Next, I have 5 contexts (where) for tasks: Office, Home, Online, Errands, and No Context.  Then I use tags to further categorize tasks when needed.  The best way to illustrate this is by example:

1.  The wife wants me to pick up some groceries on the way home.  She gets on the internet and adds a task to the Honeydo folder:

• Folder = Honeydo
• Context = Errands
• Sub-tasks for each item
• And if you want, tags for type of items (produce, dairy, freezer...)
• Due date

How this works.  When I leave the office, I will change my filter to context:Errands or folder to Honeydo.  I will see this task.  When I get to the store I can look at the sub-tasks for the items I need to pick up and if I have tags, organize the items by their location in the store.

2.  At the office, in a meeting I get tasked to do draft a brief for a project.  I add this task via iPhone Toodledo webapp or offline via Appigo Todo:

• folder = Work
• context = Online (because it just requires my laptop, and I can do the work anywhere I have internet acccess)
• tags = Project Name, work stream (we usually break out projects into work streams)
• sub-tasks = more detailed tasks to get this done
• set appropriate priority and due dates to task and sub-tasks
• I will often add duration

How this works.  Anywhere I am online and want to do work, I switch my folder to work and filter by context:Online and priority.  Usually, I will work on the highest priority task and use the tags to filter to the project and workstream that has that highest priority task.  This declutters the task list to exactly what you are going to work on.  As I focus on the larger task, I will create additional sub-tasks and do the work.  Additionally, Toodledo will provides something called scheduler where you provide folder and/or context and how much time you have...Toodledo will then provide a list of tasks based on priority and duration to maximize what you can get done in that time. It is a nice little feature.

I hope this blog entry has helped your productivity.  I am always looking to better and more efficient ways to get things done.  So if you have any comments or suggestions, or things you use or came across, I would love to hear them.

五月晴 說:
哈囉我媽去洗澡了跟妳問個好啊妳好嗎呵哈哈哈哈
依晴 說:
恩～這兩天很多學姊回女中阿
五月晴 說:
真的喔
五月晴 說:
我這屆的嗎
依晴 說:
不知道
依晴 說:
我又看不出來
五月晴 說:
妳也有在注意啊= =
五月晴 說:
我以為妳都翹課
依晴 說:
因為我跑去辦公室就看到一堆便服的人
依晴 說:
沒有都啦
依晴 說:
有些課會上
五月晴 說:
ㄜ
五月晴 說:
我存疑
五月晴 說:
穿便服也有可能是老師啊
依晴 說:
明顯是學姊啦
五月晴 說:
妳怎麼認誰是學姐
依晴 說:
學姊跟老師的感覺分的出來
五月晴 說:
真假
依晴 說:
尤其是圍著
依晴 說:
老師叫老師的
五月晴 說:
喔 妳的觀察入微

五月晴 說:
我也要當老師了   像嗎

依晴 說:
不像
五月晴 說:
明明就像= =
五月晴 說:
我不甘心啦(扭)
依晴 說:
老師不會那麼聒噪（小聲）
五月晴 說:
妳皮癢啊
五月晴 說:
= =
五月晴 說:
我哪有聒噪 我本性是很害羞 是妳太害羞我只好聒噪
五月晴 說:
白癡= =
五月晴 說:
moron~
依晴 說:
好啦
五月晴 說:
多學一個字囉
五月晴 說:
moron
五月晴 說:
智障的意思
五月晴 說:
ㄟ 你平常有空會讀閒書嗎?
五月晴 說:
課外的書?
依晴 說:
會吧
五月晴 說:
真假 太棒了 所以我可以推薦妳書單嗎
 依晴 說:
不過不多
依晴 說:
我專注力差
依晴 說:
好阿
依晴 說:
這樣也好
依晴 說:
我要找事作
五月晴 說:
越看就會越好了啦
五月晴 說:
不過啊
依晴 說:
不要英文的就好
五月晴 說:
嗯中文的
五月晴 說:
我以前啊
五月晴 說:
有偷過圖書館的書(小聲)
五月晴 說:
所以啦 有些書妳可能找不到了
五月晴 說:
XD
五月晴 說:
壞事做太多

依晴 說:
呵
依晴 說:
難怪學姊很紅XD
依晴 說:
圖書館的書可以借多久阿
五月晴 說:
嗯  兩星期

五月晴 說:
不過...我都偷渡出去
五月晴 說:
良心有發現就偷渡回來還
五月晴 說:
良心不見 又碰到我喜歡的書 就...
五月晴 說:
好啦 其實我只有幹走一本 梅爾維爾的白鯨記被我摸走了
依晴 說:
學姊是強者阿
五月晴 說:
對呀 妳今天才知道
五月晴 說:
學校的書可以網路查齁
依晴 說:
恩
五月晴 說:
我找找看再告訴你
依晴 說:
學姊蹺課都去哪裡

五月晴 說:
我 不一定阿
五月晴 說:
興大吧
五月晴 說:
霧峰園區
五月晴 說:
我有認識園藝系學姐 她在做實驗
五月晴 說:
妳也應該要有一個在中部讀書的學姐罩妳XD
五月晴 說:
我常去科博館 敦煌 晃一個下午
五月晴 說:
還有坐火車去水里 集集
五月晴 說:
有時候往海線走
五月晴 說:
不一定
五月晴 說:
有時候去吃 一中街啊 有時候去接外場演奏賺錢

五月晴 說:

有時候帶本書去美術館看看展 累了就在那裏的椅子坐一下午讀閒書或算算物理
五月晴 說:
隨便嘛
五月晴 說:
就不要上課就是 我都請病假 雖然我也可以在班上自己讀書 但我覺得老師都很吵
依晴 說:
你媽都不知道嗎
五月晴 說:
不
五月晴 說:
XD
五月晴 說:
我是強者
依晴 說:
好嗆
五月晴 說:
因為我都爬牆啊 連外出單都不用
依晴 說:
學校知道會抓狂吧
五月晴 說:
還有學姐會直接騎摩托車把我偷渡出去
五月晴 說:
這是往事了(埋~煙~)
五月晴 說:
我聽到我媽掛蓮蓬頭了掰掰書單再告訴妳

<start-state>

Este nodo se caracteriza por ser el nodo inicial de nuestros procesos. Al ser el primer nodo tiene algunas características especiales para cumplir cumplir con su funcionalidad.

Las características mas obvias, pero que no hay que dejar de lado y siempre tener en cuenta son:

• No posee transiciones que llegan a el
• Solo puede haber un solo <start-state> por proceso

Con respecto a la primer característica podemos ver la implementación exacta de la clase StartState.java que extiende su funcionalidad de la clase Node (como absolutamente todos los nodos) y sobre escribe los siguientes dos métodos para cumplir esta funcionalidad:

public Transition addArrivingTransition(Transition t) {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException( "illegal operation : its not possible to add a transition that is arriving in a start state" );
  }

  public void setArrivingTransitions(Map arrivingTransitions) {
    if ( (arrivingTransitions!=null)
         && (arrivingTransitions.size()>0)) {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException( "illegal operation : its not possible to set a non-empty map in the arriving transitions of a start state" );
    }
  }

Otra característica que sale a la luz cuando vemos la implementación de la clase StartState, es que esta clase sobre escribe el método execute que contiene la logica a realizar por el nodo de la siguiente manera:

public void execute(ExecutionContext executionContext) {}

En otras palabras el nodo start-state no se ejecuta. Solo sirve para indicar que el proceso acaba de ser creado y todavía no comienza su ejecución. Esto quiere decir que cuando con la API nosotros creamos un nuevo Objeto ProcessInstance, se crea un RootToken que apunta al start-state del proceso.

A nivel jPDL podemos ver una definición simple de un nodo <start-state>

<start-state name="start">
  <transition to="next node"></transition>
</start-state>

o también una mas compleja que incluye la definición de una tarea dentro del nodo <start-state>

<start-state name="start">
        <task name="Start Task" priority="high">
            <assignment actor-id="salaboy"></assignment>
            <controller>
                <variable access="read,write" name="variable1" mapped-name="variable1"></variable>
            </controller>
        </task>
        <transition to="next node"></transition>
</start-state>

Con respecto a la tarea, ya voy a describir un poco mas en un post dedicado solo a eso. Pero lo importante aca, es el significado que puede tener esta tarea dentro del proceso. Por lo general se suele poner una tarea en el <start-state> con el fin de poder capturar quien fue el actor que inicio el proceso. Tambien probablemente lo mejor seria que posteara un ejemplo de implementacion de esto mas adelante.

Como ultimo detalle y no menor, esta bueno tener bien en claro que eventos soporta este nodo tan particular. Ya que el nodo <start-state> no tiene transiciones que llegan a el, los eventos como por ejemplo, node-enter en este caso no estan soportados. Por esto viendo en la implementacion, vemos que los unicos soportados son los siguientes:

public static final String[] supportedEventTypes = new String[]{
    Event.EVENTTYPE_NODE_LEAVE,
    Event.EVENTTYPE_AFTER_SIGNAL
};

Espero que se entienda y si alguien tiene algun comentario para agregar, bienvenido sea.

Extracción ATM: (traducido seria, retirar dinero de un cajero automático)

Como vemos en la imagen, en el proceso se describen varios nodos, de distintos tipos que nos permiten especificar un comportamiento particular para cada uno de ellos.

La primer gran diferencia, debido a la cantidad de nodos de tipo tarea y nodos de tipo node, es entre las actividades (o tareas) que son realizadas por personas, y las actividades que realizan sistemas automaticos o procedimientos programados (programas, software, etc).

Por lo tanto es fundamental identificar que actividades las realizan personas y que actividades las realizan sistemas. En este caso de dominio es bastante fácil identificar esta división, pero hay casos donde los dominios son complejos y el lenguaje de dominio también, donde un analista o el encargado de modelado puede llegar a confundirse. En estos casos, es importantísimo profundizar el relevamiento y obtener estos datos, para poder modelar correctamente el proceso.

Esta diferencia entre Tareas y Nodos es importante a nivel jBPM debido a que su comportamiento interno es muy distinto, y por lo tanto nuestro proceso a nivel global se comportara distinto si modelamos un nodo como Tarea o como Nodo (de tipo Node).

Para poder demarcar bien las diferencias de comportamiento veamos las siguientes definiciones simplificadas:

Nodos de Tipo Tarea: van a representar a un actor (persona, ser humano) interactuando con el proceso. Al tratarse de una persona y su interacción con el proceso, fácilmente salta a la vista que el comportamiento del nodo va a ser diferente debido a que una persona no se comporta como una llamada a un método (WebService, función, etc). Sino que el comportamiento y la interacción de la persona con el proceso se caracteriza por ser mucho mas asíncrona. Esto quiere decir, que el "proceso" deberá quedarse esperando (estado conocido como wait state) a que el actor interactúe con el proceso hasta el momento en que el mismo o algún procedimiento que el active cierre (termine formalmente) la tarea.

Nodos de Tipo Nodo: son los nodos mas genéricos, que nos permiten especificar cualquier tipo de lógica y comportamiento dentro de ellos. Nosotros podríamos crear dentro de estos nodos lógica asíncrona o síncrona, pero lo mas normal es que estos nodos sean utilizados para interactuar con lógica de carácter síncrono, como seria la ejecución de un método o la llamada a un Web Service.

Estos dos tipos de nodos, al ser tan distintos utilizan distintas "porciones" de las API que nos provee jBPM. El nodo tipo Tarea hace uso de una sección particular de las API que esta totalmente dedicada a la interacción y administración de todo lo relacionado con las tareas humanas. Muy probablemente escriba un post sobre esto en los siguientes días.

Por el lado del nodo del tipo Nodo, tenemos que tener en cuenta que nos deja especificarle una acción (action handler) que contiene código Java a ejecutar. Dentro de este Action Handler podemos hacer cualquier tipo de llamada a cualquier sistema externo, lo que causara que el proceso se mantenga en el nodo mientras este "código" se ejecuta.

Con respecto al nodo Tipo Decisión no creo que haga falta aclarar mucho, solamente que hay que recordar que esta decisión se puede tomar automáticamente mediante el uso de un Decisión Handler (codigo Java) o a partir de expresiones que evaluen los datos particulares del proceso y en base a eso se decida por donde continuar la ejecucion.

Entonces para ejemplificar un poco vamos a ver el proceso que veiamos en la imagen anterior.

Veamos particularmente el primer nodo (luego del nodo start - al cual le dedicare otro post), el nodo "Ingresar Tarjeta", este nodo es de tipo Task (tarea) ya que es una actividad que va a realizar una persona cuando se encuentre frente al cajero. Cuando pasara esto? no sabemos. Lo que si sabemos es que en algún momento esto va a ocurrir y por eso el "motor" de procesos se encargo de crear una tarea, que tiene que ser llevada a cabo para que el proceso pueda continuar. Simplemente la lógica de esta tarea seria mostrarle una pantalla al usuario de que debe ingresar la tarjeta en la ranura correspondiente y cuando el usuario ingrese la tarjeta y el lector de la tarjeta recupere el numero y los datos correspondientes de la misma, la tarea finalice y continúe el flujo de ejecución del proceso al siguiente nodo.

En el siguiente nodo, llamado "Reconocer Tarjeta", es de tipo Node y acá deberíamos tener escrito en Java (dentro de un Action Handler) la lógica para ir a una fuente de datos y recuperar todos los datos asociados a esa tarjeta. Esto seria ir a una base de datos directamente y buscar los datos del duenio de la tarjeta mediante el numero recuperado en la tarea anterior, o consumir un Web Service externo al proceso que realice esta funcionalidad.

Espero haber sido claro y haber dejado un poco marcada la diferencia entre estos dos grandes tipos de nodos. Estaría bueno que si alguien tiene alguna duda sobre algun otro nodo, o sobre que logica deberia llevar asociada algun nodo e particular, lo comente y discutamos sobre eso.

Saludos y espero que sirva de algo...

Reference: 1219062288

ERS has a Client actively seeking to appoint a Senior Environmental Consultant to work as part of the Radiological and Environmental team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing environmental support to our Clients on Nuclear Licensed sites and internal projects.

Location

Birchwood/Westlakes/Scotland

Salary

Attractive package with competitive salary depending on qualifications and experience.

Job Responsibilities

Concentrate on Environmental Impact Assessments, PPC and optioneering studies.

Technical Delivery of EIA, PPC and optioneering studies and business cases.

Interfacing with Clients and Regulators.

Project and Task Management Business Development activities.

Contact ERS on 01454 203 460, or submit a CV to cv@energyrs.co.uk, to register your interest or apply. Details at www.ERSJobs.co.uk

Most importantly, from within Task Manger you have the option of selectively killing processes. But how do you determine which processes are safe to kill based on the limited information Task Manager provides?

If you’re a skilled computer user, it’s probable you’re aware of every process running in the background, the application or service that is responsible for launching it, and the function it performs. Better yet, you probably have the know-how to selectively kill processes to optimize memory use and trim your machine for maximum performance.

But what if you’re a novice or casual computer user? Where can you get the information on running processes so that you can make an accurate assessment on whether to kill a process or not?

Fortunately, there are a number of free tools available that will help any computer user, novice or not, to determine which process/processes can be safely shut down.

One such free tool is ProcessQuickLink 2, a small application (413 KB), from Uniblue Systems, the company which provides the indispensable process listing database ProcessLibrary.com, to the computing community free.

After downloading and installing ProcessQuickLink 2, the latest process information will be available to you directly through Windows Task Manager. Simply click on the Icon next to the process you are querying, which will now be visible in Task Manager’s process tab, and the ProcessLibrary.com website will be accessed where the essential information on the selected process can be viewed. The information provided is extensive enough to allow you to make an educated decision on the process.

If you’ve always wondered just what all those processes running in the background on your computer are up to, this cool little application will give you all the information you need.

Quick facts:

Instant one click access to process descriptions and advice through the Task Manager

Quickly and easily search 9000+ entries in processlibrary.com database

New process descriptions are added on a weekly basis

System Requirements:

Windows 2000 / 2003 / XP / Vista

Internet connection and an Internet browser

Download at: Uniblue Systems

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a Question

1. What is definition of atoms by thomson ?

2. describes about two electron is configuration in atom ?

3. determines is two electron configuration of atom is Scandium, Uranium, Belerang, Xenon, Francium, Kalsium, Boron, Aluminium, Klorin, and Astatin ?

4. In use no.3. determine the group and periode. ?

5. what is the chemical bonding, ions bonding, covalent bonding, and coordinat bonding ?

6. In use no 5, please give a sample each every bonding and drawing the molecul formula.

thankyou and good luck

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ERS have a Client who is actively seeking to appoint a Project Manager for NCU South.  This role is dependent upon task / project, reporting arrangements may vary and could be to the (Senior) Project Manager, Team Leader or Operations Manager: Project Management / Engineering responsible for the delivery of small to medium sized projects (£50k to over £1Million) as part of their project portfolio. Bid management and preparation of tenders.  Responsible for delivery of the tender documentation and supporting cost estimate and programme.  Working to tight deadlines.  Providing a focus to the Client and supporting business development activities.  The successful candidate must be able to prioritise work but also know when to call upon others for assistance.  They will be expected to work with a range of people (external and internal) so good communication skills (both written and verbal) are essential.

Location

Thatcham, UK

Salary

Attractive package and a competitive salary dependent on qualifications and experience

Job Responsibilities

Project Management / Engineering:

Be responsible and accountable for agreed aspects of the project.

Be responsible for the co-ordination of the functional activities within the project organisation to ensure specified client requirements are achieved.

On projects within their portfolio, provide leadership for those projects.

Where agreed, provide a focal point for the Project within the company and in communications with the Client.

Ensure project personnel meet requirements to be suitably qualified and experienced persons.

Ensure project forecast reports and plans are produced in accordance with the Company process procedures.

Ensure the scope of work is clear and that assumptions and exclusions are recognised by the project team.

Implement value improving practices for the project life cycle, where possible.

Receive funding (from the client) and monitor / control commitments and expenditure within authorised budget levels.

Reviewing project performance using Earned Value techniques where appropriate.

Ensuring that staff on the project are aware of their responsibilities for health and safety.

Ensuring that design and project reviews are held and recorded as appropriate.

Ensuring that the impact of risks is adequately addressed in the Project Risk Register and are managed throughout the project.

Ensure that potential variations are effectively recorded and managed appropriately.

Establishing an effective change control system for project changes.

Ensuring invoices are accurate and submitted in a timely manner.

Ensuring project control arrangements are established and effectively implemented, e.g. for document control, communication, progress reporting, costs control etc.

Review and approval of the Quality Management Plan and Technical Plan, as appropriate.

Planning to ensure adequate resourcing to support project delivery.

Contact ERS (www.ERSJobs.co.uk) on 01454 203 460 or submit a CV to cv@energyrs.co.uk to register your interest or apply.

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- In meaning some of it happened ( for real ) somethink not -

Evil Minds

My brother woke me up with his fashion drama ( Err ... No comment ). After some "Yes, you can wear that." -s from me he went to this other city, saying he needs to do some things. I searched up my book about dreams. The last night I dreamed about an green ( poison like ) emo vampire boy. He was chasing me ( His voice chased me ) in somekind of hotel. Sadly I couldn't see his body. I was panicly hidding from him in another persons bed ( No! I did not have any "things" at the bed with the person already sleeping there! ). I saw myself just about to sleep in when suddenly the boys hand grabbed me. "Gotc - ya!", said the death pointing voice.  At that point I woke up. Frigtened. I started hearing his voice ( In real ) and seeing some human shape on my chair. I just closed my eyes and waited ... After some minutes of my panic attack I slept in ( again. ) A dream happened ( again ). It seemed like a part 2 of my previous bed hallucination. This time I found myself in a basement with some other "*parners*" ( I typed parners because we somehow knew each other and the whole situation we were in ). The bad guys ( good looking poison vampires ) were in some sort of an electric bath screaming "YOU WON! HAVE MERCY" - or somethink in that way. I don't remember what was after that, but somehow it was connected with my night stalker. Since I didn't know how he looked like I couldn't identify him in the electric bath. Though I had these feeling that one of them was observing me with strickt - sharp eyes. The other people which were helping me gave me his ( the stalker boys ) cloths saying I need to burn them to get ride of some curse. Well here I woke up to listen to my brothers issues. ( According to the book I'll soon get to experiance a romantical adventure. )

Anyway! I started my usuall day when I'm home alone. Turned the PC on, selected a few musics, turned the volume and tone on full and danced all over the house doing wariable of things.

14:00 - My mother came home ( early ). She planned to take the dog to the animal salon. Of course I went with her, since she begged me with her crying that she needs to do everythink alone ( Right ... ). The dog was nervous and breathing like he's about to die. But at that time I was the one who almost died! As my mother drove to the salon, I kept thinking the following things: "OMG, The dog is looking me with a death look! He's going to bite me!!" or "The god damn dog is about to break the window and jump out of the car!!!" or "Mother! Who gave you a licence to drive!? You'r going to kill us!!! Drive slower!!!" Thank god nothink of my  fantasy happened.

Finally arrived ( In some shitty old very tinny and dusty room which should acording to all city guides and maps be a salon ). A "wanna be specialist" servant came to us. My mother started to have some chit chat with him about the hair cut and all the blabla stuff. As for me ... Well, I felt really uncomfortable there. I felt like we went in some sort of place where they torch animals.

2 hours later ...

I found myself outside a bar drinking an icy cola with my female parent. And at that terrace, were two little children playing. Everybody knows how much I hate if some kiddos are near my body. So, I was hoping for that salon servant to call and say "Heyaz! The puppeh ish ready x3!!!!" I was actually praying that he would call! Why? Simply because, these ONE child had this ball. He was throwing it into the other child whic was attacking him with sand. The ladies who were in charge of those two didn't eaven care what they were doing. Unfurtunaly the ball landed in another bar guests face, and the sand all over the tables and drinks. To my luck "he" called.

At the animal salon ...

Mother: "OMG!!! MY BABEH!!! LOOK AT YAAA! You'r so cuddely, fuddely, njammumely!!!"

Servant: "Ohohoho!!! Yesh, he was such a brave boy @_@!!!"

Me ( thinking ): "What did they do to you T_T!? Did they stab any needles into you!? Amadeus ( the dogs name ) speak to me!!! Use your telepathy powers! Ooooh you poor animal!"

Mother: *pays*

Servant: *$_$"

Me: *I can't get any air in this room!!! AND OMG!!! THE DOG HAS LAYED DOWN!!! WHAT IS WITH HIM!!????*

In the car ...

This might sound crazy and silly and so unrealistic and whatsoever, but as I babysitted the shaking dog, somethink slimy touched my right leg ( actually I touched it ). I got tottaly stunned. My nervs were going crazy and the adrenalin level raised fast. It was a sleeping snake.

Me: *Metamorphing into a living rock*

Dog: *Happily enjoying the ride*

Mother: *Drives like a maniac*

Home

The snake somehow got away ( don't ask me how, I turned into a temporary rock ). I checked every possible hideout where the snake could went. To my luck everythink was "clear". I swinged my body into the house. I took the camara ( to picture the dog *jeez* ) and went back outside where I last saw mother with Amadeus. But! They disseapered! I went around and around the house, searched all over the grass field and the garden, still no possible trace from them. I started yelling "Mother!???" No response came back. Like if the Earth would take them ( The car was still home ). "Possibly she just went for a walk, to show her "baby" around ..." - After those calming proccess I watched the TV until I just slept in.

Next morning ( Today )

I woke up in a fog of CO2 some meters away from a half burning television. With bloody eyes, shaking legs and a screaming voice I runned into the bathroom to take all the possible wet towels hanging on the radiator. I hurried back and tryed to put out the fire, and it just got worst with every second. I hurried to the phone to call the fire man. Though I didn't know what number to call! I run outside the house screaming after my familly members. What I saw next was ... well ... the snake ( from yesterday which got away ) was eating my cat Garfield. As I almost collapsed the police came in a civil car. They said that they came to me, because they were chasing some kind of stalker.

Me: " O_O!????"

Police men: "We have traced the stalker until here, the civil car is a camouflage!"

Snake: *oum nom nom nom*

Police men: "Umm, boy are you alright?"

Me: "O_O!????"

Snake: *sillently disseapers in the grass*

Afterwards ...

A few police officers saw and followed the CO2 fog and took out the fire. The other few searched the area in hope to find the stalker. And a pair of them were asking me questions ... "Boy! Can you speak?", "Boy! Can you give us any possible life evidence!?" ...

After 5 hours of police protection ...

I'm typing in my usual blog at my home. From my mother and brother still no clue. A police man is with me for security. Well, right now he's having a coffee break. And I'm off to bed! I'm sure tommorow everythink will be better!

18:00 - Continuing from my previous draft

Urm ... ... .... long story in quick form. Security police man from yesterday = stalker ( When I went to bed he came to my room saying "Gotc - ya!" I took my pillows and smashed him down, the other police officers gave me a number to call if anythink would happen so I did ), Mother = torned apart by the dog, she was found today in the backyard with the bloody dog on her, Brother = got arrested because of some things I didn't understand. Me = had a heart attack and am writting this on the nurses LapTop ( she allowed me ... ) and am eating this wierd hot dog ( it's taste is really awkward ... ) Now that I think of it ... that emo stalker boy! Didn't I have a dream about somebody chasing/stalking me!???

Police officer a.k.a emo boy stalker: {link}

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Err ... yeah ... that's my entry o_o! Hope ya like it x3!  I've written it 3 days and I know It's like UBER long ... By the way: "I'm sorry Amadeus for making you the murder!!!" Here's an innocent picture of him -

Procrastination is in all of us, and one of the best ways to procrastinate is to do all the busy-work that makes us feel like we’re doing stuff — while not doing the stuff we know we should be doing.

We need to do the important stuff, we know we need to, and yet we don’t. Today we’ll look at ways to strategize against this all-too-common phenomena.

Recently reader c5ask wrote:

“I have read couple of articles on “Defeating the resistance to do useful tasks”. I have been trying to follow this and successful to some extent. I do see markable change in routine activities.

At the same time, there is something called “Defeating the urge to do useless tasks”. I realised, there are certain tasks that we do, because we are so used to it that, we don’t know how frequently to do it. Eg: checking emails.”

So how do we combat this urge? I suggest not doing just one thing, but many. Attack the enemy from all sides, and soon the enemy will collapse. Here are some great strategies for beating the urge to do the useless:

1. Know what’s important. If your task list is just a list of everything you need to do, you haven’t distinguished between the high-impact tasks and the busy-work. Mark down your top three priorities for the day. Everything else should be secondary.
2. Make it prominent. Either on your computer or on your wall or right smack in the middle of your desk, have some kind of prominent reminder of what you’re supposed to be doing today
3. Single-task. I wrote recently about the power of single-tasking, and that’s important here, because if you multi-task, you tend to switch between what you should be doing and what you shouldn’t — the important vs. the useless tasks.
4. Identify your time-wasters. What are the things that you do most often? For some, it’s email, for others, it’s the phone, for others, it’s a certain website or three. If you aren’t sure, track it for a couple days. Know your time-wasters and you can beat them.
5. Log them. Sometimes just the act of keeping track of something for a week or two will make you more conscious of things. You could use a service such as pageaddict, or just use paper and pen.
6. Change your habits. If your biggest time-waster is email (for example), make a conscious, dedicated effort to change that specific habit, from checking email every 5 minutes to checking it at two or three designated times of day (for example). (Read more tips on changing habits: the no-fail method, 5 things you need to know, 13 things to avoid.)
7. Be accountable. Tell people you’re going to change. Be accountable to them so they can see how many times you succeeded and failed. Daily email updates to your friends is a good method, as is using an online forum, or posting a big tally sheet in your office where everyone can see it. The positive public pressure will help.
8. Have good reasons to save time. Why do you want to kill your time-wasters? If you don’t have a good reason, it won’t matter much. But if you want to finish work early in order to spend time with your family, or you want to make time for exercise or relaxation or reading or whatever, or you really want to achieve a certain goal or complete a big project … these reasons will motivate you to change. Remember your motivation at all times.
9. Reward yourself. Each time you resist the urge, give yourself a reward. It could be a treat, or points that earn bigger rewards, or something relaxing.
10. Unplug. If your biggest time-wasters are online (or email), consider disconnecting for certain key periods of the day. I get my best writing done when I disconnect from the Internet, for example.
11. Know your key times. When do you have the most energy and get the most work done? Identify those times of the day and make them your “distraction-free” times. Only allow yourself to do the important tasks in those times.
12. Get rid of distractions. Turn off the phones, plug in your headphones (to block out sound), put up a “do not disturb” sign, turn off your email notifiers, maybe put your email in vacation mode. Get rid of visual clutter around you as well.
13. Go cold turkey. Sometimes, if an addiction is really strong, you just have to cut it out completely and weather the tough times. If your addiction is email, for example, don’t do email for several days. It’ll be very hard. Pretend you’re on vacation. Then, when you return to email, set certain times and start with new habits.
14. Block them. Technology is great, and you can use technology to beat technology time-wasters. Stealth Kiwi and LeechBlock are two good ones, among many others.
15. Batch them. Keep a list of things you need to do that aren’t on your list of three priorities. Then do them all at once, when you have some extra time. That’ll keep you from doing things throughout the day.
16. Schedule them. Designate certain times of day to do your batch processing of email, phone calls, meetings, whatever. Then, when you’re not at the scheduled time for those things, you know you’re not supposed to be doing them.
17. Always rethink. Periodically examine the way you do things, and think about whether there’s a better way. That doesn’t mean you need to change things all the time, but sometimes we keep doing something a certain way just because that’s what we’re used to doing. Instead, see if there are things you can eliminate, streamline, do more effectively.
18. Change your location. If the above strategies don’t work, sometimes it’s good to get away and try a new location. Take a laptop to a coffee shop, work out of a library, work at home (if you don’t already), or otherwise find some quiet spot where you can work without distractions, and perhaps without an Internet connection if you don’t need it.
19. Focus on results. What do you want to achieve today? Have that achievement be the focus of your entire day. Try to complete that project or major task or goal … and at the end of the day, be sure to assess whether you were successful or not.
20. Celebrate! If you were able to complete your goal for the day, be sure to bask in the glory of your victory. That good feeling of accomplishment will help motivate you to keep doing that — it’s a satisfaction that is rewarding in itself, but you need to put special focus on it at the end of each day. Do that, and you won’t want to fail at your goal the next day.

The main event this weekend was my mate Mike's stag night last night. It wasn't a big night out in a city or anything as it was a bit last minute and most people are skint, so we stayed in Stroud. We started off at Jim's place in the mid afternoon with some hardcore Rock Band action and a few drinks to get everyone in the swing of things.

Then we headed into town. I guess it was about 7pm when we got to The Retreat and it was already packed. There was a group there celebrating someones 29th birthday, some of whom I know so I went to have a chat with them for a bit. I was also trying to help Mike achieve one of his tasks we had set for him - to obtain a bra. He had 6 tasks in total including: drinking the drip tray from behind the bar; convincing someone he was Johnny Knoxville; and getting slapped by 2 strangers. He did all his tasks with varying levels of success! The one I thought he'd have most trouble with was actually one of his most successful - convincing someone he's Mr. Knoxville himself. He does look quite like him especially with a baseball cap on, and the guy he spoke to seemed pretty convinced!

Once the pub was starting to shut down we made our way back to the flat for more rocking and drinks. One of Mike's tasks was to walk home with his jeans on his arms and his tee shirt on his legs...then it was decided he should walk back naked, a decision he didn't object to that much at all! I posted his pants through someones letterbox so I need to get him a new pair as a wedding gift, I'm thinking a nice pair of y fronts.

Almost as soon as we were back at Jim's place, it was clear that my best friend Martin had exceeded his body's alcohol tolerance levels considerably, as he proceeded to the sink to review his night's intake once again. The rest of us played RB into the wee hours and chatted and just did general things you do when drunk.

Today I got up late. I didn't feel too bad considering, just a bit dehydrated as I forgot to drink water before I went to bed. Took Mike's brother Chris back to his parents' place this afternoon and chatted to them about the wedding next Friday amongst other things. They're lovely people so it's nice to catch up with them again.

I spent tonight at Jim's watching the first two Bourne films and eating a curry. Now I'm going to read for a bit and maybe get some new apps for the iphone.

Bye bye.

props to Judah for this...

Naledge - J. Ronin Freestyle (prod. by T.A.S.K.)

He stood staring out into the trees surrounding his house. He heard screaming. After hearing someone else’ thoughts on the danger and noise in the world he pondered death, and time, and the expendability of life. He remembered a time of helplessness, a time when he had to swallow his pride. He felt his left hand, the knuckles a deeper red than that on his right. This was a reminder of a time when He felt small, when He felt inferior. The sound of the screaming was drowned out by the sound of the cars, the train, the birds, someone bringing in their bins. He thought of nature as a different entity to that of his own world, of the human, the social. As if to say “Our world is not that different…” two birds landed in front of him and he stared as they worked out their differences. A single minor, The Inferior standing up for himself. An angry flutter of feathers, a hop to the right along the narrow beam. Reinforcements arrive for the Superior. It is not longer a singular bird standing up for himself but three onto one. He watches puzzled, allowing the birds to settle the dispute on at least comparitable terms. Then after all are gone, except for the Superior, He interferes. A stick strikes the back of The Superior, who seconds before was so proud. He had taken back his pride. He had stood up for The Inferior. He was moved by the immediate likeness of Nature and His own world. This time he had not been small. This time he had been big. But he hadn’t.

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley - but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass -
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here,
There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,
And the task you must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail -
Be the best of whatever you are!

- Douglas Malloch (1877 - 1938 )
American poet and syndicate writer

Evolution là phần mềm lưu trữ và quản lý những thông tin cá nhân, đặc biệt là email. Ngoài ra evolution còn có chức năng lịch làm việc, sổ địa chỉ., giúp ta quản lý giờ giấc tốt hơn (đồng bộ với aplet Clock ở góc trên phải thanh panel của Ubuntu). Evolution được cài đặt sẵn trong Ubuntu, nên bạn không tốn thời gian cài đặt. Bài viết này sẽ tập trung vào tiện ích kiểm tra email từ tài khoản gmail.

Mở Evolution từ Applications -> Internet -> Evoluton Mail. Bạn cứ làm theo thứ tự những hình hướng dẫn bên dưới, thay name@gmail.com bằng tên tài khoản gmail của bạn. Mình chưa thử với những dịch vụ email khác.

Bằng cách này, bạn có thể tạo và quản lý cùng lúc nhiều tài khoản gmail. Chương trình sẽ kiểm tra và thông báo có email mới sau 1 khoảng thời gian nhất định. Tiện quá phải không?

Evolution còn có chức năng quản lý task, lịch làm việc, ghi chú và bạn có thể theo dõi qua aplet clock của Ubuntu như hình bên dưới.

Chúc vui!