nirav April 3rd, 2007
I was looking for a good podcast / video to use in our monthly review meetings. The topic was taking responsibility! Taking responsibility even for things that normally seem out of your control. Being at the source of your actions, and not being limited by the circumstances.
Our people do take responsibility for their actions, but we are facing problems in execution, when it comes to coordinating and integrating with a number of teams - and the clients. I had read about the circle of influence and the circle of concern in Stephen Covey’s 8th Habit, and was looking for some media that could make the whole thing interesting!
Found it via some Google & Yahoo! video searches! It’s a video by Young America, describing the story of Hank. How he performs in school, and how his being popular, but undependable, affects his career.
Ran it in the monthly review meetings today. And I think people liked it!
Magnet April 2nd, 2007
* At early morning, I got call from home: “Your pic is in DivyaBhaskar Newspaper!”. I told: “Today is 1st April!”. And I just recalled that I had send some information regarding ‘Gujarati Blog World’ and it might got published. You can see more information on this on My Gujarati Blog.
* Again switching to CLI 2 theme. Doesn’t work well but can’t resist myself..
nirav April 2nd, 2007
Ashok S, our designer sent this:
If you want to optimize your CSS code, checkout the CSS Optimizer on flumpcakes. It is an online tool which helps you delete unwanted css code.
From their about page, the tool essentially does the following:
- Removes comments
- Removes white space (such as excess spaces)
- Converts RGB values to Hex (they’re smaller)
- Converts Hex values in the format #RRBBGG to #RGB.
- Changes zero values with a size specified to 0. (0px would change to 0)
- Changes values such as
border: 1px 2px 1px 2px; to border: 1px 2px;
- Converts multiple background, font, margin, padding, list attributes into a single attribute
- Converts multiple border values into single attributes
- Option to convert absolute values (PX & PT) into relative values (EM)
- Groups style attributes and values which appear multiple times into a single style
nirav March 30th, 2007
If you haven’t already heard about it, it’s a good time to do so now. Head over to SXSW, and listen to the podcasts that interest you. Here are my picks:
For more, check out the Technorati tag sxsw.
nirav March 29th, 2007
Solution # 1: Check your emails only twice a day!
Yes, you read it right, “Four Hour” week, not a “Four Day” week. Timothy Ferriss has written a book on how you can work only for four hours a week, yet deliver much more productivity and results. Not all of us may be able to shrink our work weeks to four hours, but the principles he talks about can certainly take off five to fifteen hours off the week, allowing you to do something else you enjoy.
Tim spoke at SXSW (South by South West) conference, and the whole audio of the session is available for download. Listening to that, I was surprised, curious and inspired. The 80/20 principle was not new, but the technique of elimination or checking emails only twice in the day, was something radical. Tim has a team of MBAs, sitting in Bangalore, doing most of his work, at $4 per hour. He suggests outsourcing everything that’s not profitable for you to do, given your hourly earning rates. Scot Hacker has done a fantastic summary of Tim’s talk. Both the summary and the audio are excellent and recommended to all who want to optimize their work time! Head over to Tim’s blog on how people redesigned their lives, after attending his talk at SXSW!
