I'm a computer now!!
I’m having migraines but that’s not enough to keep me from reading my rss feeds, sadly I got this error message from google.
Sorry…
We’re sorry…
… but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now
hmm. So I’m a computer/program now. Some people are just fast. nakakaasar.
Advice::Arabs and Jews « Paulo Coelho’s Blog
Covering the sun with one’s hand
A disciple went to Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav:
– I shall not continue with my studies of sacred texts – he said. – I live in a small house with my brothers and parents, and never have the ideal conditions for concentrating on that which is important.
Nachman pointed to the sun and asked his disciple to place his hand over his face, in order to hide it. The disciple obeyed.
– Your hand is small, yet it can completely cover the power, light and majesty of the great sun. In the same way, the small problems manage to give you the excuse you need in order to hinder your progress along your spiritual journey.
“Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.”
via Arabs and Jews « Paulo Coelho’s Blog.
posting this for myself!!
rePost::Prostitutes in Copenhagen Use Free Sex As Protest : The Primate Diaries
Prostitutes in Copenhagen Use Free Sex As Protest
Category: Environment • Gender & Sexuality • Politics
Posted on: December 15, 2009 9:00 AM, by Eric Michael Johnson
Sex workers in Denmark have offered free sex in response to Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard's attempt to discourage prostitution during the COP15 Climate Change Conference. The City Council had postcards delivered to 160 hotels where conference delegates and associates of COP15 would be staying and paid for advertisements in local newspapers that read:
‘Be sustainable: Don't buy sex!’
However, prostitution is legal throughout Scandinavia and sex workers have formed unions to protect themselves from exploitation and harassment. In response SIO (Sexarbejdernes Interesse Organisation; or the Sex workers Interest Organisation) announced on their website that this was a political attempt to criminalize sex work in the city:
via Prostitutes in Copenhagen Use Free Sex As Protest : The Primate Diaries.
We should join them in protest! hehehe, why does it always seem that i’m living in the wrong city?
Best Read::Alex Payne — In Which I'm Not Alone
Ultimately, I have a deep-seated belief that people should be able to do what they love from wherever they want to be, and that it’s my responsibility to make that true for myself and others. Portland will be an experiment that tests that belief. I’m looking forward to it, and time will tell if it’s the right fit for me and mine.
via Alex Payne — In Which I’m Not Alone.
This is Alex Payne on moving to Portland from SanFo.
rePost::Seth's Blog: Who controls your media?
If your Facebook circle is draining your energy and not pushing you forward, why, precisely, is it there? If you are spending more than a few minutes a day on Twitter, is it because you can't stop or because stopping will cost you your goals? Which is more important: a ringing telephone or an unfinished new concept on your screen, waiting for you to type out the rest of it?
via Seth’s Blog: Who controls your media?.
Is it just me , but why is it that I find reading feeds in google reader energizing whilst reading stuff off facebook drains me? Its the same between twitter and blogging. I feel energized when I blog but twitter tires me. What is this, old man of the web syndrome??? yikes.
Convention of those wounded in love « Paulo Coelho’s Blog
Article 2 – Once struck by a stray arrow fired from Cupid’s bow, they should immediately ask the archer to shoot the same arrow in the opposite direction, so as not to be afflicted by the wound known as “unrequited love”. Should Cupid refuse to perform such a gesture, the Convention now being promulgated demands that the wounded partner remove the arrow from his/her heart and throw it in the garbage. In order to guarantee this, those concerned should avoid telephone calls, messages over the Internet, sending flowers that are always returned, or each and every means of seduction, since these may yield results in the short run but always end up wrong after a while. The Convention decrees that the wounded person should immediately seek the company of other people and try to control the obsessive thought: “this person is worth fighting for”.
via Convention of those wounded in love « Paulo Coelho’s Blog.
I wish. Read the whole thing!
Advice::How To Know You've Hired A Killer Team
Basically, you need people who do their jobs as if the life of the company were on the line.
Why?
Because the life of the company is on the line. Every day. The day you forget that is the day you'll be headed for the scrap heap.
Many talented folks from big companies are seduced by the idea of startup life…right up until the time they actually start working for one. Then they realize that the company depends on them in a way that a larger company never will, and they find the responsibility (and workload) overwhelming.
A great startup executive, meanwhile, wants to carry the fate of the company in his or her hands.
You need to find the latter folks. And you’ll find them, in part, though trial and error. Interviewing and reference-checking helps, but you won’t know for sure that you’ve hired a winner until they hit the ground and start sprinting.
via How To Know You’ve Hired A Killer Team.
I’d like to work in a startup again, hope the second time would be better for me. Generalizing this advice is useful for Non-Profits, Non Governmental Organization, Government Workers, etc. Give me a group and we can use this to determine if you have a killer team. It’s very simple if you think about it. I feel that in most projects you just need one uber mind and the rest just helps in assembling, or making the vision work. I believe this is how Apple operates and in a sense how many open source projects work, with their BDFL.
I love this quote from The West Wing:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
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rePost::Now we know why Ritalin works – SmartPlanet
As an ADHD kid myself, and father to two more, this may also explain something I have found troubling my whole life. I don’t react well to praise. Tell me you like this article and I may just shrug it off. Tell me you hate it and we can have a good argument — well an argument at any rate. Praise doesn’t give me the hit it gives you — I need a lot of it to feel it.
via Now we know why Ritalin works – SmartPlanet.
rePost::Philippine left backs Villar, Legarda | ABS-CBN News Online Beta
Philippine left backs Villar, Legarda
by Carmela Fonbuena, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak | 12/14/2009 1:52 PM
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MANILA, Philippines – After months of courtship, presidential candidate Manuel Villar of the Nacionalista Party (NP) succeeded in getting the support of the leftist group Makabayan.
Senatorial aspirants Bayan Muna Satur Ocampo and Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza on Monday officially joined the NP senatorial ticket as “guest candidates.”
Ocampo and Maza bring with them the support of the eight party-list groups under Makabayan–Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Anakpawis, Kabataan, Katribu, Migrante, Courage, and the Alliance of Concerned Teachers.
“Matagal pinag-usapan ang pagsasamang ito. Di naging madali sa magkabilang panig dahil alam kong ito ay kauna-unahang pagkakataon. Nagsimula sa maraming pagkakaiba, sa pagwawakas konti lang pala pagkakaiba,” Villar said at a press conference in Quezon City.
“I am extremely happy with this partnership,” he added.
It is the first time that the leftist alliance is officially supporting presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
“Ganun kalaki ang pagtingin namin sa mga kandidatong ito,” said Ocampo’s colleague in Bayan Muna, Rep. Teodoro Casiño.
via Philippine left backs Villar, Legarda | ABS-CBN News Online Beta.
This is probably the first presidential election where the two front runners both give me hope that the Philippines can be a great country within a lifetime. There is only so much angst I can live with. We can always hope pray and do.