I´ve just found these funny videos where the Get a Mac campaign is given a new twist: The South Park touch. I laughed a lot, but the best thing is the last phrase, that matches perfectly our mood when something goes wrong and we don´t have a clue about how to solve it…
Mac vs PC:
Mac vs PC vs Linux:
As you may have read, I´ve been testing the PSP-2000, or PSP Slim, as it is called by some, for a while now. The games have superb graphics, far superior to the ones present in the Nintendo DS, and I would dare to say, focused on a different kind of gamers, but many of them are simply PS2 ports. Fortunately, there are some nice exceptions. I stumbled upon a promising one, that will be available at the end of March, 2008, through the Playstation Store. As Mr. Phil Harrison, top brass of Sony said when he announced the upcoming title: “possibly the least graphics and most gameplay of any title you are going to see this week”. For the M. C Escher lovers, (myself included), this will be the perfect gift!
When I leave in a rush and forget to put the gorilla in my photo bag, this solution can be really handy to get that spectacular photo with our not-so-steady hands and on those circumstances where it is not possible to use a tripod (or simply we don´t have it). It´s worth noting that this hack is effective with the up and down vibration, but not so much for the lateral one. If you have a video camera, this alternative can be useful, too, but it´s a lot bulkier…
Perhaps this post´s title sound familiar to many of you. And yes, it´s the same guy. I´m talking about Jerry Seinfeld, an american stand-up comediant that went famous with his own tv show, aired between 1989 and 1998. I´m not going to speak about him or his show today (but you can know more in the Wikipedia if you want). Some time ago, I read an article about his particular productivity method that inspirated me, specially when the so- called “Force of Will” is weak in any of the projects that I´m working on.
The story goes like this: One day, just before one of his live performances, a fan and comediant wannabe, approached him to ask for advice on his new profession. Jerry told him: “The way to be a better comediant is to make good jokes, and the way to get them is to write every single day”. And he added: “I have a big yearly calendar in a easily spotted location, and a red magic marker. Whenever I write, I put a big red “X” on that day. If you keep doing this, in a few days you´ll have a chain. Just keep on and you´ll see it growing fast. Your unique task is not to break the chain”. “Don´t break the chain”, he repeated.
It´s deceptively simple, but I think this is the secret for success. To create an habit, you´ll have to repeat the action over and over again. If you keep doing this, it will become harder and harder to break it and the productivity will skyrocket.
I´ve been using it from some time now and it´s working! (I´m updating the blog more frequently…) I even found some web apps that allow having an online calendar and draw those prized “X” every day,
And you? What methods / tricks /tips do you recommend or use to create and/or maintain a positive habit?
I´ve seen a lot of weird Windows error messages over the Internet, but until now, none of them had hit me. Last week, while trying to kill Outlook 2007 after it went unresponsive for a while in my office laptop, the following window appeared on my desktop:
It´s in spanish and says: “It is not possible to force Microsoft Office Outlook to close right now. If you reboot your computer, this might solve the problem. We´re sorry for the inconvenience.”
I was speechless… It seems, after all, that rebooting your computer IS a viable solution and it is recommended by Microsoft! Fortunately, in other OSes, these “methods” don´t exist (at least, I haven´t seen them…yet.)