Saturday, December 15, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
excel: last index of
assuming that text is in cell A1, and we are looking for "\" character, this works: =SEARCH("@",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\","@",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"\",""))))
from here.
from here.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Monday, October 08, 2012
excel: lovely keyboard shortcuts
very simple, but oh so useful:
- shift-space: select row
- control-space: select column
Monday, October 01, 2012
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Monday, September 03, 2012
Sunday, September 02, 2012
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
our unhealthy obsession with winning
an interesting article from harvard business review regarding our obsession with winning (my emphasis at the end):
… the way we've defined winning makes it attainable only for a tiny percentage of people, and even then demands a kind of single-minded focus that can create a narrow and limited life.
How can we redefine winning so there are more ways to do it, and it's more satisfying? A few suggestions:
- Winners are people who consistently invest effort, persevere, and keep getting better at whatever it is they do — regardless of whether they win anything.
- Winners have goals, which provide direction and motivation, but recognize that the ongoing satisfaction comes from the everyday experience of moving towards any given goal.
- Winners are people who aren't afraid to lose — and they learn and grow from it. "I missed more than 9000 shots in my career," says Michael Jordan. "26 times I was trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Winners use their skills not just to build their own value, but also to add value in the world — to give back and pay forward. Jimmy Connors and Andre Agassi both won the same number of Grand Slam tournaments during their careers. Connors invested in casinos after he retired from tennis. Agassi invested in building a charitable foundation, a charter school, and a residence for abused and neglected children in Las Vegas. For my money, only one of them is a real winner.
What winners recognize, above all, is that the ultimate goal is never to vanquish an opponent or to prove something to others, but rather to more fully realize their own potential, whatever that may be.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
view from ISS at night
this is incredibly beautiful:
aren't we so small and fickle?
Every frame in this video is a photograph taken from the International Space Station. All credit goes to the crews on board the ISS.
I removed noise and edited some shots in photoshop. Compiled and arranged in Sony Vegas.
Music by John Murphy - Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)
itunes.apple.com/us/album/sunshine-music-from-motion/id297702863
Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory,
NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
eol.jsc.nasa.gov
aren't we so small and fickle?
there is great relief...
... in unsubscribing from feeds in your RSS reader. I have been struggling for a long time to keep up with the number of posts, and noticed that there were items from a number of feeds that I would never bother reading but just clicked through. well, what's the point of keeping it? unsubscribe and forget!
Saturday, July 21, 2012
technology tips
I was having a conversation with a friend last night, and showed her some of the (computer) tools, applications and methods I was using to keep myself and various notes organized. she was very impressed and stated something along the lines of wishing to know more about what exists and thus be able to use them herself. with that in mind, I will start writing some of my usages and experiences with various software, and how I use them. hopefully it will be useful for other people too!
Friday, July 20, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
mind blown
two cool things combined: wireless power, and levitating objects (using magnets). mind = blown.
Sunday, July 01, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
take control of your life
seven simple, doable (!) steps:
- Start to focus on what you're doing with your attention
- Take a few minutes every day to define and write down the two or three most important things you want to accomplish tomorrow
- Do the most important activity first in the morning
- Eliminate as much "insecurity work" from your life as possible
- Keep a running list of everything that's on your mind — in order to get it off your mind
- Each time you go online to do anything, ask yourself "Is this best use of my time?"
- Systematically, train your attention
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
evernote 2 and windows 8
there's a lot of people who prefer evernote 2 to the latest version 4. installing it on windows 8 turned out to be troublesome at first, but running the installer in compatibility mode for win xp sp3 made sure the installer worked. it's now running perfectly fine, and I can go back to tagging in peace!
update: just to be clear, you have to run the application in compatibility mode as well.
update: just to be clear, you have to run the application in compatibility mode as well.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
10 commandments of teaching
quite an interesting post from brain pickings:
Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
- Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
- Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
- Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
- When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
- Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
- Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
- Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Saturday, June 02, 2012
Friday, June 01, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Saturday, May 05, 2012
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