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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetEventually something like this was bound to happen... I've been thinking about trying out Win7, I guess soon i'll "have" to try it.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI've only used Cisco and Aventail Connect so far, and my vote goes to Cisco.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOk, imagine this. One's boss gives a list of, say, ten things to do and a deadline of eight hours to do it. If one finishes all ten things in four hours (no procrastrination, all productivity), one would imagine that one has the remaining four hours free, right?
Wrong, the boss will only come up with another list of things to do, and if there is nothing else to do, he'll make something up, no matter how useless it seems. Of course that this is a very generalist view of things, not all working places and bosses are like this, however i did see it happen several times.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOk, imagine this. One's boss gives a list of, say, ten things to do and a deadline of eight hours to do it. If one finishes all ten things in four hours (no procrastrination, all productivity), one would imagine that one has the remaining four hours free, right?
Wrong, the boss will only come up with another list of things to do, and if there is nothing else to do, he'll make something up, no matter how useless it seems. Of course that this is a very generalist view of things, not all working places and bosses are like this, however i did see it happen several times.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweet@mfusion: Actually, in Portugal "bica", "café" and "cimbalino" are exactly the same thing - "espresso". The diference remains in the region of the country that you are. for instance, if you are in Lisbon and ask for a "cimbalino" people might not know what it is, but if you ask for a "café" or a "bica" they do know what you want; "cimbalino" is used mainly in the area of Porto. The diference between all these and an "italiana" is that the "italiana" is a very short coffee whereas the others are regular (1/2 a cup).
In essence "Bica", "Café", "Cimbalino" and "Italiana" are words used to represent an espresso.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThe trick of putting it in the fridge I allready knew, but to unclog drains... that's a pretty good idea.. :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThe trick of putting it in the fridge I allready knew, but to unclog drains... that's a pretty good idea.. :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweet@JerryA: Although I agree, maybe i shouldn't have used the word "Expresso", but simply used "Café", "Bica" or "Italiana" or even "Cimbalino"...
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweet@arttmonkey: @matricks54:
I agree that we disagree...! :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetFirst of all, Starbucks (or almost any other café in the U.S) lacks one of the most important things for good coffee drinking: Coffee. And I do mean coffee, like an Expresso, not a galon of a brown drink that tastes like coffee in a bucket. There are very few countries in the world that have good expressos. One of those, fortunately, is mine. Portugal, alongside with Italy, France, some regions of Spain and some odd coffee shops in England, have good expressos.
If you want a Frappa-mocha-coca-loka-whatever that has everything BUT coffee; well, I guess you really don't need Starbucks for that. As it was very well put by you (Kevin) you can make your own, real cheap.. :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetMy first and only tip to survive a job that you hate is: "Quit that damned job!".
I don't really know how bad it is in the U.S., but where I live, jobs aren't also growing on trees. Still, it amazes me the panic that people around me feel just at the sight of losing their jobs. It doesn't matter if the job pays badly, it doesn't matter that they feel miserable, it doesn't even matter that they're at the brink of a nervous breakdown. All that matters is that they have a job. I always remember that old Confucius saying: "If you find a job that you like, you wont have to work a day in your life". And for me, that pretty much sums it up.
My current employer doesn't pay me much, but my work and worth are recognized, I have many other benefits, I work at my own time and speed (within some boundaries, of course), I have a boss that listens. Adding it all up, I'm a happy worker, and all that because I went out to search for another job and quit my previous one .
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI myself am into NOT tracking anything at all... Yay for no organization at all.. :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetMedia diet, you say?
Things I do not use or have:
* Smartphone
* Laptop
* Social Media
* Any type of gadgets.Things I use/have:
* Personal Desktop
* Work Desktop
* My very own server (sandbox).
* Mobile phone.
* Corporate e-mail
* Personal Gmail
* Facebook (just for occasional fun)To put it simple, I receive about 5 to 10 e-mails per day (Work and Personal).
I receive 10 to 15 phone calls a month, and make a few others.Don't get me wrong, I do have a lot of work to do, however, I think my life (personal and working) is pretty simple.
Oh and for computer, I'm an OSS guy, so my work is fully based on puters.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI'm still trying out 3.6 Beta 5 and the only problem i'm seeing is that it's voracious with memory.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI've always loved Thunderbird, but since using a desktop client for me is extra bagage and not useful at all, i stopped at TB2. These days I only use ffox combined with the gmail notifier extension and that works perfectly for me. At work, I'm stuck with ms outlook.