Post for 5/23/06

So I've flip-flopped once again to Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3. I was enjoying using Maxthon as my browser of choice. However, the ever-growing list of extensions for firefox has wooed me back as usual. One of those extensions, in fact, is how I write this blog entry. A very convenient integrated blogging utility called Performancing.

Anyways, here's a link to a cool piece of software called visual task tips. It allows you to enjoy a future feature of Windows vista, where you can hover your mouse over the open program buttons in your taskbar and get a small thumbnail of what the program looks like. This becomes really useful when you have a lot of windows open at once: Visual Task Tips Web Site

If you are into photography, particuarly digital photography, and would like to learn more about some neat tips and suggestions to bring out your camera's ability, as well as your own. Check out this blog: Digital Photography School

Anybody looking for some great tools for organization that are available online, I've been finding my life to be extremely productive with the following tools:

Gmail: an online e-mail client thats quick, easy, well-organized, and holds 2 Gigs of e-mails.

Google Calendar (GCal): Possibly the best online calendar application I've ever seen. It allows additons of multiple calendars, e-mail, sms, and popup notifications, daily agenda e-mails, etc.

Tada list: this is a recent application I've found useful in helping me to manage my work projects. Its as simple as it gets for a ToDo list, and its free (just like the above applications).

There are other online applications that I've found either useful or beneficial to me. I'll share more about them later in another posting. What about you? Are there any online (web-based) applications that you rely on for productivity and organization? Feel free to share.

Entry for 5-11-06

So this is what the Chinese do when then become successful? Good thing there is communism then, or there'd be fighter jets flying all over the place: Check out the article here.

Personal thoughts:

-(for Tim): The NBA playoffs are in full swing right now. As of this year, I've not watched a single game and I still feel great!!!

- I think that success can be measured by the satisfaction one gets from his work alone. Despite the pay or perks of the job. If you only love your job for the pay and the perks alone, then you don't really love your job.

-Making yourself vulnerable and asking for help is the quickest way to acheivement in anything. Doing neither can be the quickest way to failure.

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!!!

Just some info for y'all:  Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of a victory war fought between the the Mexicans and the French, after the French attempted to invade Mexico over a debt dispute that it claimed the mexicans owed them for aiding them in their war for independence against Spain. The victory for the mexicans demonstrated that the newly founded country of Mexico wasn't going to be bullied by anybody. (Until later, when the country was overtaken by drugs, political corruption, poverty, and pollution.)  Contrary to popular belief, it is NOT a celebration of Mexico's indepedence from Spain.