Top Ten Annoying Phrases
Having worked in the corporate world for so long, I’ve had my fill of hearing jargon spoken. I’ve sat through entire meetings of nothing but buzzwords and pat corporate phrases.
Yucko. Give me plain English any day, even Sarah Palin-plain-English.
That’s why I liked (or hated) a list from the UK paper, the Telegraph, a list of top ten irritating phrases compiled by Oxford.
Favorite Web Movie Database Site – Allmovie.com
I love films and I really love watching them at home. Netflix, cable, DVD borrowed from the library or whatever, like Chance the Gardner, I like to watch.
About 15 minutes into most movies, I need to know more about something, where it was shot, director, who is that actor? That sort of thing.
What Shall We Name the Baby?
Admittedly there are plenty of baby naming sites on the Web, but What a Lovely Name is a new one, just launching, with a few cute twists.
You can choose names by tradition (read ethnicity), personality or even celebrity names (best to be avoided). As you search you can save your favorites and then email them to friends and family for their opinion.
When you’ve made your final choice you can buy logo-ware from a custom Zazzle online shop with the little one’s custom name and logo. Maybe, that part doesn’t appeal to me, but you’ve got to give them credit for a clever idea.
Working at Self-Development
Self development meshes pretty closely with what we talk about here, namely productivity and took, okay and tech.
Jason Womack had an inspiring post over on lifehacker.com on what he called the ABC’s of Self-Development: Accomplishments, Beliefs and Challenges.
Here are his first two suggestions for helping with your self-development.
1.) Make it easy to get new information in.
Watching a TED talk or PopTech talk each day (7-23 minutes in length) is a great way to get started. Learning about what’s happening “out in the world” will better prepare you to engage with people in conversation, get to know what’s important to them, and be someone they trust for years to come.
Feeding my Sticky Note habit
Now I might be the first to suggest that using sticky notes to keep track of information might not actually be considered organization, and in-fact may be more like a condition requiring a twelve-step program.
I love sticky notes, though. Especially electronic ones. Once I open the first note I can suddenly think of tons of things to write each in different notes.
This confession probably explains why I like Pnotes so much. Pnotes means either pinned notes or portable notes. The Pnotes folks say you can decide.
XMind Mind Mapping Now Open Source
The full-featured XMind, mind-mapping, application that previously sold for $299 a copy has been open sourced and is now available without charge. It’s cross-platform and available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
It has been one of the better professional applications for creating the mapping diagrams that are an intuitive way to take notes, brainstorm, collaborate and manage projects (among other things).
Meditating — The Easy Way
Image via Wikipedia
Tara Stiles, a model and yoga activist, gave some easy suggestions for meditating if you’d like to give that a try. There are many good health and productivity benefits from some sort if mediation practice.
Hardware not Software Today, it’s the Weekend
What’s Happening? – Happenr tells you
Planning a vacation or live in Europe? Happenr can be a very useful site.
Based on setting criteria as to what how you’d like to be entertained: music, film, play, exhibit and where in Europe you plan to be, you’re given plenty of fun opportunities.
Recommended Reading — Four Interesting Memes
I’m going to start a new occasional feature here in Enquiring Mimes-land. I’ll post a few links that are interesting, but that I’m not going to write about at length (at least, at this time). I’ll also give you a bit of the reason why I found the link interesting enough to clip.
You might enjoy wandering through them. After the jump.
