Life, Love and Work: August 2007

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

LL: Rome- Rome, Italy

You cannot just trust person by their look (formality), and neither you cannot just trust the statement of another person - E AZ

LL: Page of Life! - Nakakabighani - NYMP

There's Something About Mary!

Dealing with an old book:

An open book....? You just have to let it go... close the book again, you been through reading it.

These are people who allow themselves to travel forward through time to develop and act on something in preparation for the future.... Ex. The subway of New York constructed in 1935 and still usable 'til today...

Visionaries are people with passion and with a view of tomorrow...

Leadership LL:

The knowledge gain is not alone the way to determine good position -- leadership for that matter, but good inter-personal relationship and humility. This is commented by a Senior Executive to another peer (to DG Rivera of NCC 2007) -- Mrs. JA Vidal, DDITM PNPCS 2007.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Argument

Lesson Learned (LL):

You cannot win an argument by trying to change the view of another person!

- Julius on his anger with another person argument and persuasion.
- Another incident... can't quite remember it...

Friday, August 17, 2007

Blogging Best Practice

Got this from http://www.silenceandvoice.com/blogging/

Posted by Jeffrey

Thanks Jeff.

Comment:

Blogging is just starting to interest me. While trying to find out how to post a pic in my blogger account using scribefire (have not yet figured out how, though...) - having the same problem as in item no. 3, I stumble upon this blog. I posted it here so that I can alway refer to it. Thanks again.

Ruben.

Liveblogging Best Practices

I have completely revised and added to my initial list of LiveBlogging Best Practices that I initially published on 6/26/07. This comes from feedback I received and having reflected on my learning from the 3 separate conferences I liveblogged. [this post was revised later in thesame day with another item (#15) added based on a comment from Robin Yap.]

Liveblogging Best Practices

Have an extension cord. You never know how far away the outlet is.
Plan on there NOT being any wireless Internet access.
Regardless of what may be expected or promised you never know what may happen with it, who may be downloading every DVD ever made and clogging the network in the process, and how even the most stable technology fails when we may need it most (not to mention when the access is "free" after a daily credit card payment).
Use an offline blogging program.
I am using Ecto for this here. I also tried ScribeFire for Firefox, but I could not get the image uploading FTP to work to save me, and their help pages were not too helpful. I do not mind paying developers for their work, and think those who created Ecto certainly deserve what I paid them for what they delivered. As I am about to migrate from XP to
Vista, it is important to check compatibility (such as with Macs) and have a freely-available trial period.
Have a fully-charged battery. This goes without saying, but often the unstated is forgotten or assumed!
Create entry shells prior to the sessions. This way, you are assured to have the correct names of the sessions and the spelling of the participants for each entry.
Disclose what editing is done later.
I consider myself a researcher-practitioner, and as such want full-disclosure of what I liveblog in real-time, as I conduct research with my entries as they are. These are real data, and as such it would be counter to the research process to go back and edit, spell-check, and otherwise clarify what happened at a previous time as the point of
liveblogging is to capture the experiences in real-time. Of course, if I am able to spell-check and otherwise edit as I go, then that is another situation.
Distinguish between internal and external experiences.
I am a constructivist qualitative researcher, and as such do not believe the researcher can separate himself or herself from the research experience. When I am liveblogging a conference, I find myself writing about what I see, hear, and experience, as well as the
meaning-making that occurs in real-time. I cannot separate an objective happening from my perception of it, in that I do not believe there can be any objective meaning or experience apart from one who experiences it. In practical terms, I can record what I hear and what strikes me, but then I often begin to process the experience and add to the meaning-making event. This means that liveblogging makes me more than an active participant--the public-blogging and my ability to discuss my own thoughts and feelings of the event makes me in effect a co-presenter. [I think I will have to revisit this to try to develop it more]
Have a camera and its sync-cord. While picture taking while liveblogging may be icing on the cake, it does add a nice touch.
Have an international adapter/plug.
Liveblogging in Canada, for example, uses the same plugs as in the US. The AHRD conference I am liveblogging in England means I have another device I have to carry with me if I want to plug in.
Adjust the computer time to the local time. I have blogged around the world, and prefer to capture the sessions in the real time where I am.
Consider a hyper-link policy.
If I am liveblogging and there is wifi, then it is easy to add links to the presentations or papers or the people who present themselves, However, with the editing policy I listed above (see #7), determine how to find the links and add them, with full-disclosure, at some point in time. This allows the readers to try to see as much of what you experienced while it happens. If there is no wifi available, I consider it appropriate to add hyperlinks after the session when the Internet access is again available.
Plan for breaks. I blogged with a laptop, and had to decide what I was going to do with it when I went to the restroom and getting coffee. Without a personal contact whom I could trust it with when using the restroom or otherwise, it came with me. I had to close it and carry it as a notebook (I wonder if that is how the name originated?)
Get a comfortable seat. Liveblogging is tiring, so get comfortable because it will be a long session.
Consider keywords carefully.
I have started to include Technorati keywords in all my posts, and use common keywords if they exist for the event, as well as names of participants and the primary topic. While I blog for many reasons, I want my experiences to be found by those in attendance or otherwise interested in the events I attend (if they so choose).
Tag the posts with an agreed-upon tag.
Technology-related conferences often announce a unique tag that they encourage people to use when uploading posts or photos so they can be found by searchers and other attendees later. However, not all conferences or events do this. If not, create a unique tag for the
event that will be easy to locate and share it with anybody else liveblogging the event (for consistency). Finally, name it in a post so readers and potential searchers will see it.

This list is a work in process, and I hope to add to it as new issues arise or as feedback and research dictates.

Every endeavor has an ultimate goal!

I've been thinking of technology and life. What really is the ultimate goal of every endeavor or invention or activity in life and technology. Examples:

Technology -- Goal -- End/life goal

Computer -- Artificial Intelligence -- More like Us

Cellphone -- Worldwide commo -- No boundary/free commo

3-G -- Video/Pic/Audio/Data Transmission -- A feel and touch

Air Transpo -- Fast transpo -- Supersonic Travel and Space travel-vacation

Land transpo -- fast and convenient -- Flying car, flying man with special contraption and using renewable fuel.

Internet -- World commerce -- Single currency, anything you want to buy,
-- World commo -- Free commo
-- World library -- Everything you want to know
-- World Wide Web -- A smaller world

SoHome -- Home work -- Application of PC in every aspect of home-life/entertainment (Single PC controlling everything): Security, utilities, tv/movie/video, music, and other home needs

Next is what really technology teaches us....

Monday, August 13, 2007

My Sis is coming

My Sister from US just is having a vacation in Manila after almost 10 years.

It has been quite a while, but one thing for sure... We are family and for the filipino, it is a big matter of having a family to turn to...

Church Life

Christian Life:

"We are not human being in spiritual journey, rather we are spiritual being in human journey..."

- Anonymous

Attended church yesterday - VCF.

I've been thinking of life... I know I am not perfect, that's why the sermon of the church is just fitted for me... Grace Works.

What a wretched me, if not for my Saviour Jesus.

Thanks be to our Lord.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Mozilla Firefox --- Cool!

I had been using Mozilla Firefox up against other browsers for the reason that it is more secure particularly with the storage of web cache.

But right now, I've learned to use some extensions that is really cool! such are:

1. Scribefire - for my blog
2. Foxsaver - for my screensaver (with very small file signature)
3. Foxtune - for my music
4. Fotofox - for my photo upload to the internet
5. PDF download options ~ for options to: open or save pdf file in the web browser
6. Themes - for various options to modify theme for my browser.

I am yet to experiment more add-on of firefox and hopefully I'll not overload/burden firefox in its main function as web browser with regards to opening the browser and loading webpages.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Learning Experiences

Okay, with regard to my current experiences and lesson learned, I think I better post some so that I will not forget them:

Lesson learned:

1. Procrastination ~ On answering an appointment, if you will prefer it today or tomorrow. You better answer with an open-ended answer so that he/she will be the one to tell if you have to do it today or other day. (On meeting somebody -- today or other day)

2. Practice what you teach - I alway though that I am in control of myself. I teach my kids the basic of driving: S -- Safety first; A -- be Alert, always; and R -- Relax and be cool, dont lose your patience. But, in one instance, while I'm driving a marked vehicle, I thought I must assert the authority of my vehicle, and overpassed some cars. Not knowing that it was to late to avoid a mishap. The car I was driving was side swipe by a 10-wheeler truck while turning. Fotrunately -- or may I say its a God's blessing while teaching me lesson of life, the truck shoulder all the insurance for the repair of the vehicle. I was not hurt during the accident, but it took a while before I am comfortable again in my driving.

3. Pocket your smile ~ I been cautioned twice on smiling while there's an environment of pressure. I've learned that you should keep your smile to yourself eventhough there is something to smile at.

4. Expectation ~ Never expect too much or you will be discouraged. Expect little so that if greater things happened your will really appreciate them.

5. Life is a Gift ~ While reading a book -- God little devotional book, I read about how some cancer patients can still live life and be happy, especially children. It is because they live their life not as a right or privilege, but as a gift... Just look how they can still smile and laugh.

That's all... I have to remember others...

Ouline of Workflow? - Management Question

I have partly finished my work in a Manual particularly on our office procedures and definitions. Although we already have an existing administrative manual, we had been introduced to a new outline format to follow in writing our workflow. I have already posted the outline in Yahoo Answer but have failed to gain answer on my query on where can I get reference regarding the outline. Our outline is as follows:
I. Objective
II. References
III. Definition of Terms
IV. Requirements
V. Flowchart
VI. Narrative
VII. Service Standard
VIII. Sample Format