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The Mid-decade Success

Is it possible that the middle of a decade is the most successful time to launch something. Try this list

1975: Microsoft
1976: Apple

1984: Mac

1995: Windows 95
1996: eBay, Amazon

Maybe the beginning and end of decades are times of taking stock.

Just a thought, I’m sure other’s would be able to come up with list proving otherwise.

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How to Have a 36 Hour Day

Some great tips on how to be more productive with the 24 hours your do have. Covers topics like polyphasic sleep and GTD and software applications that you can use to save time.
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Lazy Generation protests against ban on laptops for note taking.

Professor June Entman warned her first-year law students by e-mail to bring pens and paper to take notes in class and that laptops would not be allowed.
From USAToday:
“My main concern was they were focusing on trying to transcribe every word that was I saying, rather than thinking and analyzing,” Entman said Monday. “The computers interfere […]


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Australia bans graffiti game

Often you hear the expression “Only in America” when someone is surprised by the absurdity of something happening there.


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How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time - Time Magazine

Having been advised to either “meditate or medicate”, this Time Magazine article is quite encouraging.
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Time management - Happy the person with only 24 hours in their day

“Chris, have you been sniffing the Merino again?”


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Musings - The pen is mightier than the keyboard

Raj over at Blogspinners comes up with a rather insightful inisght tha the pen and paper is - and I’d add, always will be - the best tool for writing and planning.It seems that no matter how many times I come up with a new (digital) routine for planning and recording my blogs, I eventually find myself going back to paper and pencil.


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Journal of a Blogger: I’m too busy - I need less time

It should say “a man with no time gets the job done”When we have plenty of time, our day inflates into every nook and cranny.since I became unemployed, I’ve gone through a cycle of getting excessively busy and then having to cut back.


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IT workers dubbed ‘worst dressed’

The Sydney Morning Herald report that Austrlain IT workers are the “worst dressed”
“Because the majority of IT people are not in front of customers all the time, they tend to slack off,” she said.
Help-desk staff were named as the worst offenders
I’m sorry, I’ve got to be somewhat proud of that. In a world hung up […]


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The neck tie that binds both men and women

A lot has been made of the common men’s neck tie, still de rigueur in the corporate workplace and yet lambasted by many for what it resembles, both physically and symbolically - a noose.
But the neck tie also has unwittingly tripped up the feminist movement as well. Rather than burning their bras, feminists should have […]


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