September 2013 Archives

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Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from krav maga expert David Kahn’s book Krav Maga Weapon Defenses. Welcome back to another installment of the Krav Maga Technique of the Month.


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Hi there, How would your workflow systems hold up if you were sick in bed with the flu? Would you still be able to easily get something out of your mind, decide what it means and what you want to do about it, AND get it into a trusted place holder? All while balancing the cough syrup, tissue box an


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Your job is not what you do, but the goal you pursue. Your real goal, however, is not your individual KPI, but the team’s goal. Whether you play defense or offense, your real goal is to help your team to win the game. Winning is each and every player’s primary job.


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With hundreds of new features to boot, iOS 7 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is a gold mine waiting to be explored to its full potential. Today, we’re going to go through some of the most lesser known features and tips which we believe you should try right now. All set? Let’s begin.


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With a season change upon us, it's important to take extra good care of ourselves. Therefore, I've designed this little 20-step plan, full of tips on how to re-vamp without feeling hungry or doing anything too extreme. Be prepared to take it easy and wake up the next day feeling better than ever.


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A 61-year-old man has taken the term "beer belly" a little too literally after being diagnosed with an infection that mimics the signs of intoxication. It all began when the man checked himself into a Texas emergency room complaining of dizziness, reports NPR.


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Today is going to be a balancing act. You will try to keep all the events in your daily life in check.


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This group on Flickr shows just how fantastically designed Japanese manhole covers are. Here are some of my favorites:


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Mondays suck, and Fridays always seem to be a waiting game for the weekend. Reader and Hackerspace author Fred Castagnac has a few recommendations for boosting your productivity—all week long—with these two days as "bookends." Check out her full post on Hackerspace below.


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I’ve been reading Scott Berkun’s book The Year Without Pants which details his working life at Wordpress.


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Some of you might remember Art Streiber as the man who photographed an absolutely epic shot of a huge group of celebrities for Paramount’s 100th anniversary. Well Art is back to give you a look on how he captured these images for the #1 hit nonfiction show that has an astonishing 11.


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Between shooting for clients, teaching my kids photography class, family obligations, and all of the non-photography activities essential to running a photography business, Life has a way of not letting me shoot just for me very often.


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Let me stop you right there, mmmm-kay? I can tell by that little intake of breath what's coming next. Thank you in advance, but I already know that motorcycles are "dangerous." After nearly twenty years of riding on the streets, I am aware; telling me now will not be a revelation.


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Editor’s note: We’ve talked before about how and why to become a regular journaler/diary writer. (I like to call it a journal myself, but “diary” didn’t used to have the feminine connotations its acquired in the present day.


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Last weekend I spent nearly four days leading a retreat, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. To get to this Zen center, you make a journey through a twisting bumpy rising falling mountain road, and then you've arrived.


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Over the last few years, interest in coding (especially for the web) has led to a blossoming of resources that help average people learn how to program from scratch. Google has decided to join the fun with a new tool called Coder — along with the help of the low-cost Raspberry Pi PC.


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Using the same ‘middle of the road’ aperture setting such as f/11 or f/16 for landscape shots is an easy habit to fall into. But this can mean you end up with simple record shots, rather than interesting photos.


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SAY, did you see the news from Libya — the last country we bombed because its leader crossed a red line or was about to? Here’s a dispatch from Libya in the Sept. 3 British newspaper, The Independent:


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During law school I had unfortunately accumulated a decent amount of credit card debt. This calculator helped me to pay down all my credit card debt in a short time. The snowball method helps users pay down multiple credit cards in a way that minimizes the interest payments.


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Planning let’s you know what you will be doing on a particular day. You review your todo list and the appointments you have on your schedule.


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Making macro photography can be a really challenging, yet very interesting task. This world is a unique place of extremely close distances, very thin depth of field and long exposure time.


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Skip to main content Facebook Google Plus Twitter LinkedIn YouTube You are here Home » About » Blog » To my daughter's high school programming teacher To my daughter's high school programming teacher Tags: © USENIX 2013


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I worry a lot about deep work (giving sustained attention to hard things that create value). As a professor, deep work is required to produce new results. Therefore, the more I do, the better. The simplicity of this rhythm is satisfying.


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Most people pick their desk based on the space they can jam it into—"Open corner? Corner desk it is!"—and treat different desk layouts as though they are largely interchangeable. Pick out your desk based on your workflow needs.


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You know, the type who jumps out of bed, bounding with energy and ready to face the day? Me neither.


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With a major trip ahead of me and the need to travel with more photographic equipment than ever before.  I went shopping for a bag which would do the following:


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Fall is indeed a magical time for everyone. With the air becoming clean and crisp, you get to dust off your overcoats and walking boots. You’ll hear the chopping of the wood that will see everyone though the winter months.


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We love guest blog posts! Today’s awesome article on 4 photography lessons is by Jason Groepper. Jason is a great photographer from Maple Valley, USA and we are huge fans of his tilt-shift work. Do you want to write a guest post for our blog? Get in touch!


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It’s time to leave work. You are about to head out, when your last meeting runs over.


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A cross-platform Password Manager I am pleased to announce that Password Gorilla is now a community hosted project at github. Please visit Password Gorilla's new homepage at http://wiki.github.


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Productivity can hold you back and hold your company back, as many reports now find. Productivity is getting more and more attention as the realisation that what you get done, and not how many hours you spend at the office, is what counts.


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If you’ve been reading our time management case studies, you’ll notice that a recurring recommendation is the use of journal entries as part of morning and evening rituals. The reason for this is simple: journals help you keep track of things, in a very useful way.


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Today we’re going to looking at how to turn notes into actionable steps that you can implement. What is this used for? Say you read a non-fiction book, or a text for a class or an article – anything really, so long as it’s something you want to learn from and use in your life.


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Last year, we introduced Pocket Listen, a unique way for users to consume their Pocket list while on the go. With Listen, articles are read using Text-to-Speech technology on any Android Phone or Tablet. Each week, users listen to more than 25,000 articles, and the stories are 2.


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For only the second time in my adult life, I just completed a vacation of more than seven days—10, to be exact. Corroborating my first experience, I am now convinced that there is a certain magic to the 10-day vacation and have resolved to make them an annual habit.


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An update for Google Authenticator was released today that wiped stored tokens tied to online accounts. Google Authenticator users then ran into issues logging in to their sites and services since the token was no longer recognized.


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By Cory Bennett and Ariel Tseitlin We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often. By frequently causing failures, we force our services to be built in a way that is more resilient.


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Dogs don't have the best of boundaries and that certainly applies with skunks. If your dog gets sprayed, you can remove the stench with a simple bit of chemistry. High school chemistry teacher Sally B.


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Scripps Networks Interactive was ahead of its time in anticipating that cable television viewers would flock to a network that stressed lifestyle programming. That was the key to Scripps becoming a successful enterprise in the crowded cable-television industry.


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Critics don’t create. They wait for the creations of the brave souls who are willing to lay it all on the line to create something. It’s the critic who then decides to dissect it, tear it down, and look for its flaws. The critic doesn’t matter.


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It’s no secret among my friends and family that I have an Evernote addiction. Between Evernote and my personal scanner, I cannot decide which one is more important to my work and personal life.


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Sometimes this "productivity" thing weighs a lot heavier on us than it should. Even the idea of "stress-free productivity" can sound like more work than we can or care to do. So, sneak behind the garage with me for what I'm sharing in this essay. It'll be our secret.


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