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If you've got two frogs to eat, which one would you eat first?02 June, 2011
Just finished with listening to another audiobook a couple days ago while walking, and wanted to share my review and highlight two important concepts I learned from it. First concept: If you have two frogs in the pond to eat, which one would you eat first? The ugliest one. Once you've done with the ugliest o
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You don't know the basics02 June, 2011
Everybody knows how to breath, and that is taken for granted because we all do it and we all seem to do it right, since we're not asphyxiating. Now, breathing right for proper oxygenation and prevention of side cramps or "stitches" is something totally different. Just came back from my daily walk, and today I tried to sustain proper breathing throughout the exercise. It is amazing how hard it is to get rid of your wrong breathing habits and substitute for a right one. I just ended up figuring t
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Challenging Myself31 May, 2011
My idea While watching my weight go up due to long hours of work sitting in front of a computer and some health problems began to appear, I just decided that I had to undertake some sort of regular exercise so that I could keep up with my weight, shape and health. About 3 weeks ago, I began to go out with Noah first thing early in the morning to walk in a fast pace (not actually jogging yet) for about 3 Km (1.8 mi), and since Noah can't keep up with long conversations yet I'm using that time to
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Done with "The Now Habit"31 May, 2011
Finished with listening to this audiobook last week, but only had the chance to write my final review now. I did a previous post about one thing I learned while listening to it, and thought I should conclude with a review. This book doesn't teach with straightforward techniques to fight procrastination. Rather, it tries to help you fight the root causes of it with psychiatric techniques through positive thinking and attitudes. I liked this book, though I
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Chromebook14 May, 2011
Nice video from Google on their new Operating System, the Chromebook. They're just about to release, and Samsung is the vendor manufacturing their new chrome is embedded laptop. The video explains in an easy way the technology: Are you Ready?
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Charlie Bit My Finger14 May, 2011
The original Charlie Bit My Finger video on YouTube is now with almost 320 million views, if you didn't watch it yet, take 1 minute of your life and do it now. A few directors just took the audio from that video, and created other three versions in the form of short movies with different genres: dark comedy, musical and horror. Their claim is that anyone can upload, but few can direct a movie. But I bet these directed short movies won't beat the original Charlie Bit My Finger! The Dark Comedy
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The Now Habit14 May, 2011
I'm not even in the middle of this audiobook , but I just learned a comparison the author made that I really wanted to share before I finish with it. Imagine you're given the task of crossing a board about 30 feet long, 4 inches thick and 1 foot wide placed on the ground. Would you dare? Of course everybody would, and it actually seems a pretty easy and risk less task to undertake. Take that same board, and place it co
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Ideas Hubs08 May, 2011
Want to spread your good idea? It could be easier than you think if you use the right HUBS... Check the video bellow (Warning... it is in Spanish) Cab drivers? Hairdressers? What other professional do you think could be considered an idea hub?
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Work like you Sleep07 May, 2011
Ok, I'm not going to tell you to work like you sleep in the sense of how much work you get done out of your sleep time. Actually, there is a much more interesting perspective to that relation. After watching this TEDx Midwest talk, I just confirmed what I always believed to be true but in a very well explained manner: Interrupting work is just like interrupting your sleep. With a 4 months old baby boy, I just realized how bad it is to your attempt to get some rest when you are interrupted 3 or
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Linked07 May, 2011
Just finished with listening to this Audiobook , and it was so amazing that I wanted to share it here in my blog. Drawn by my interest on Networks (no, I don't mean the computer networks here) and the science behind it, just decided to give a this book a try, and I was amazed on all the sorts of networks mentioned in this book and how they relate to each other. From Hollywood networks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_D
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Google Summer of Code 201125 April, 2011
As you may already know, Umit Project is in as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2011, and it happens that we just got through the selection process, and earlier today Google announced the winning students ! This year, Umit received 42 proposals, from 40 talented students from almost all continents in the world! We were absolutely astonished with so many talente
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Open Source To The Rescue20 April, 2011
Open Source is the key to innovation. Innovation requires a lot of effort and while most companies rely on a limited amount of experts to develop the things they need, others open source whatever they develop and get a crowd of experts testing, using, debugging and contributing to their software in a scale that no company can afford to maintain. That's why Linux is the most advanced operating system in mos
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