Links and references to get you started with the concept: (also see Welcome! New Tablet PC User) Tablet PC Home Page @ Microsoft Tablet PC How-To Articles Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition: An Overview1 Narrated Tablet PC Presentation Resources for the Tablet PC Developer The MSDN site for Tablet...
Home Business recently had an article on this topic and offered the following tips:
Find a professional. There are many experts that can help you plan an individualized diet and exercise program that will benefit you the most while suiting your preferences and lifestyle. Visit professional organizations’ web sites like those of the American Council on Exercise (www.acefitness.org) to search databases to locate certified personal trainers, group fitness instructors, clinical exercise specialists and lifestyle and weight management consultants, or the site of the American Dietetic Association (www.eatright.org/) to find food and nutrition professionals.
When possible, combine business and exercise. Walk to get office supplies or as you talk on your portable or cellular phone; ride a stationery bike while you read your mail; or invite another home business entrepreneur or customer for a game of tennis and afterwards have a business “power” lunch (low-cal, of course).
Plan your meals. Persons who plan their meals and snacks lose weight and eat healthier than those who just grab whatever food is nearby when they are hungry.
Make exercise a regular habit. Skip the cinnamon bun and coffee break and instead schedule short, regular exercise breaks during your work day to dance, stretch, …
In this article, InfoWorld talks to Greg Sullivan, lead product manager at Microsoft, about Longhorn and reports: Although it is too early for specifics, Sullivan said Longhorn should be a better performing, more stable, and more secure operating system because it will be based on the Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Service...
Nic, points out in a comment on this post titled The decline of enterprise influence over IT that CSC Research Services have recently published a report on Consumerization, which I have just read and must say makes very good reading, especially the first few pages. One of the authors is currently thinking through some of the related personal responsibility issues. This topic has sparked my interest and I have been talking through some of the implications with network, storage and infrastructure services architects. It took a while for them to get it until I used the Internet Access analogy which we all lived through:
1. When the internet was first established enterprises saw individual Internet access it as an activity of little interest, undertaken by enthusiasts only, with niche needs.
2. Then they saw it as a threat as they noticed people with networked PC’s who also had active modem connections to the internet, they started to create policies to control it
3. Then they saw it as a need, but only to be provided to the select few and only then in very controlled conditions
4. Then the saw it as obvious …
InfoWorld: In search of the bottom line: July 30, 2004: By Robert McMillan : PLATFORMS Linux on the desktop might mean freedom from software-licensing costs for some IT departments. But when it comes to evaluating desktop Linux’s TCO, it’s the human cost that is most important. According to industry research...
Linux Doesn’t Make Sense for Desktops By David Coursey August 31, 2004 Longhorn’s woes may open a door for Linux—a very tiny door—but Linux just isn’t a good choice for desktops. Instead, desktop Linux proponents should wake up and switch to the Mac OS.
Given all of the negative talk about the delay to WinFS I just wanted to say that I have thought since I first glimpsed it that Microsoft are really onto something with WinFS, I have discussed it before but its timely to give my top five reasons again: 1. It’s...
IT is becoming more accessible and more personal in many ways. The combination has many implications.
1. If I can get at the services others provide for me from anywhere
2. If I can customise the access to these services in a way that suits me
3. If I can aggregate the information that flows to and from these services in a way that suits me
and if I can do all of this from any device, and over any network then the power that corporate IT held over me declines and IT just becomes more like the rest of the world I live in, for example:
1. Most companies don’t specify which car a salesman has to use they just provide the money to buy it.
2. They don’t specify or fund the suit he wears, just the standards he has to comply with
3. They often don’t specify the pen I use, or the type of diary
As standards mature, security becomes more pervasive and applied to content, rather than container, (e.g. the content of the document is protected, rather than the directory it resides in), IT will go in this direction. …
Joe Beda has some very interesting comments on his blog about the impact of the changes in the Longhorn roadmap on Avalon. The most interesting snip for me was: Terminal Services and Remote Desktop. We were planning on remoting Avalon at a completely different layer. It is unclear how we...
Managing a team is always a challenge, but often great fun.
Peopleware is the best book I know of that talks about managing IT team and individual productivity. This article provides a fairly detailed analysis of the importance of personality types on team composition. If you are building a team for a really important task, I suggest you take a look.
| The report is in 3 sections: |
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| 1: Poor Performance |
| 2: Effective Personality Attributes |
| 3: The Optimal Team |
Here is the conclusion: