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Network Admin

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** Network Admin **
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-- You know you are a network admin if you try to call a colleague using his IP address.

[Date: Jan 17, 2009]    

The Sun and the Trees

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** The Sun and the Trees **
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-- If the sun were to disappear suddenly and completely without a trace, we would not know about it for full eight minutes.*
-- And the trees we see with our own eyes are but the ghost-shells of their existence a split second ago.
-- * Note: Sun's gravity would also remain for those eight minutes.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]

Being Smart

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** Being Smart **
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--  The smartest thing I did this year was to convince myself, ignoring all reports to the contrary, that I'm not that smart after all.

[Date: Dec 1, 2008]     

Good News for Cartoonists

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** Good News for Cartoonists **
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-- As long as there are managers in charge of engineers, comedy will survive.

[Date: Dec 6, 2008]

Online Shops

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** Online Shops **
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-- Bob's customer's had been ignoring his shop for years.  So he set up a digital version of his store. His customers also feel relieved: now they don't have to even ignore him anymore.
-- * dignore [vb. trans.]: In digital transactions, not bother even to ignore other people, e.g., I had dignored his emails for months.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]   

What Managers Do

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** What Managers Do  **
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-- 1. Manager has a new idea
-- 2. Brainstorms with his lieutenants
-- 3. Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project 
-- 4. Budget approved, kick-off meeting
-- 5. Project implementation
-- 6. Things get messy because there was a stupid mistake in Excel sheet
-- 7. Damage control
-- 8. Things calm down

[Date: Nov 29, 2008]   

The Only GTD Guide You'll Ever Need

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** The Only GTD Guide You'll Ever Need **
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-- Nothing is done till nothing is done.

[Date: Nov 30, 2008]