Highly Recommended Reads..

A series of articles details the process for installing and running Mac OS X, Windows Vista x64, and Windows Server 2008 x64 on a MacBook Pro.

In a series of short videos, Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers tips on how to give an effective talk, cleverly illustrating his suggestions by using them himself.

Human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. Supermemo is a program developed by Piotr Wozniak that keeps track of discrete bits of information you’ve learned and want to retain. Using his algorithm, Supermemo will remind you to rehearse your knowledge when your chance of recalling it will drop quickly.

My favorites:

1. Sandalwood meditative, aid to dry skin, soothing.
2. Chamomile sedative, anti-inflammatory, soothes, relaxes.
3. Geranium astringent, celt rejuvenator, anti-depressant, balancing.
4. Jasmine relieves muscle spasm/pain, regulates skin oil, excellent to lift spirits.
5. Lavender most versatile oil, calming, healing, cool burns, safe for kids, sleep aid.

Looking at key factors in selecting talent and maximizing the chances that your organization will be successful.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

I TOOK a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off. I was fully disconnected for 24 hours.

If you think you can predict what you will like, think again. When people try to estimate how much they will enjoy a future experience, they are dependably wrong, according to research by Harvard psychologists — and the reason is something they call “attentional collapse.”

1. Modeling Surprise
2. Probabilistic Chips
3. NanoRadio
4. Wireless Power
5. Atomic Magnetometers
6. Offline Web Applications
7. Graphene Transistors
8. Connectomics
9. Reality Mining
10. Cellulolytic Enzymes

The Benefits of a Daily Cup of Tea:
1. Ginger: Soothes the digestive system and keeps your energy fired up
2. Chamomile: Settles the stomach and is calming and soothing for the nervous system
3. Peppermint: Increases healthy gastric secretions, relaxes the intestines, and settles the stomach
4. Dandelion: Detoxifies and supports healthy liver functions
5. Valerian: A natural herbal substitute for sleeping pills

1. Coverage: back up ALL your data
2. Frequency: back up Frequently
3. Separation: Take some backups offsite
4. History: Keep some old backups
5. Testing: Periodically test your backups
6. Security: Secure your backups
7. Integrity: Make sure the data you are backing up is correct!

At Ivy League institutions, everything is Unix, functional programming, and theoretical stuff about state machines. As you move down the chain to less and less selective schools Java starts to appear. Move even lower and you literally start to see classes in topics like Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 101, three credits. By the time you get to the 2 year institutions, you see the same kind of SQL-Server-in-21-days “certification” courses you see advertised on the weekends on cable TV. Isn’t it time to start your career in (different voice) Java Enterprise Beans!

A short documentary about coffee and trade. Tadesse Meskela is a man whose mission is to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price.