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01 Nov 09

10 Useful Tips for Optimizing Ubiquitous Capture : Getting Things Done

  • This violates several of the rules described below: it’s expensive and it doesn’t invite you to create quick and dirty notes.
  • 1. Use simple and quick tools
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21 Feb 09

"Curious George" Copsey's Rim-to-Rim Trip Report

  • 7 hours from the N Rim to Cottonwood 6.9 miles


    7 1/2 hours from Cottonwood to Bright Angel (including an 1 1/2
    hr, 1 mile diversion to Ribbon Falls) 8.3 miles


    4 1/4 hrs to Indian Gardens 4.7 miles (easy, lots of shade, except
    Devil's Corkscrew: hard)


    2 1/4 hour to Plateau Point and back 3 miles (includes sunset gawking
    time)


    5 hrs out via BA trail 4.6 miles


    2 ½ hrs from Cottonwood to Roaring Springs: 2.2 miles


    1 ½ hrs Roaring Springs to Cottonwood: 2.2 miles spent 1
    1/2 hrs at Roaring Springs


    met young NPS man at Roaring Springs-- there on horse named Chile
    Dog, to clean the bathrooms (no mules that day, so could use horse)


    Total mileage: 24.5 under pack 7.4 w/o pack

22 Jan 09

BackpackingLight.com Forums -- Food, Hydration, and Nutrition » Just-add-water Group meal ideas

  • In a quart freezer bag:
    1 1/2 cups instant mashed potatoes
    1/4 tsp salt, if desired
    1/3 cup instant milk
    3 Tbsp cheese sauce powder
    Shelf stable bacon, to taste (2-3 Tbsp or more), leave in package.


    Add the bacon to the dry ingredients.
    Add 2 1/4 cups near boiling water. Stir well, let cool a bit and eat.
    Serves 1 - 2, depending on how hungry. 1 for logger sized appetite, 2 smaller or if other food is present.
19 Jan 09

New Rules of Car Buying

  • But as long as you have good credit, you can still borrow to buy a car. Today's median credit score is 720, and the auto-loan world looks different depending on which side of that line you're on. With a score below 720, you'll find that no-money-down deals are hard to come by.
  • On average you'll pay about $1,000 more for a CPO than for a plain-vanilla used car, and $2,500 more for high-end models, according to IntelliChoice.com's Bell.
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Fishing : Fish, Technique, Hooks, Bait

  • When a likely area is chosen, select an appropriate bait e.g. caterpillars or fruit (elder berries) falling into the water from an overhanging tree, slugs, worms, crickets on the river bank etc, cut to matched to the size of the fish being targeted.
  • the highly curved wooden hook is made by steaming the wood to make it flexible, then placing it in a mould whilst it dries and cools, retaining its shape when removed
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16 Dec 08

scottberkun.com » Questions on Innovation from Microsoft: Answered!

2. Don’t call what you’re doing change. Call it satisfying customers. Call it making money. Find some other attribute that your idea will provide the company and focus on talking about that instead. Don’t say “This is a huge revolution in blah blah blah.” Instead pitch something like “This plan will eliminate our top 5 customer complaints and improve sales by 10%”. Make a non-change centric argument. It’s not hard. Fish through the project and division goals for a good angle to pitch your ideas.

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  • 2. Don’t call what you’re doing change. Call it satisfying customers. Call it making money. Find some other attribute that your idea will provide the company and focus on talking about that instead. Don’t say “This is a huge revolution in blah blah blah.” Instead pitch something like “This plan will eliminate our top 5 customer complaints and improve sales by 10%”. Make a non-change centric argument. It’s not hard. Fish through the project and division goals for a good angle to pitch your ideas.
03 Dec 08

Why We Lost Focus on Development Practices

  • In almost 3 years of teaching this class, over 4 continents, and around 12 occassions with groups ranging from 16 people to 250 people (at Javapolis in 2007), I have concluded that developers are the constraining factor on project and team performance less than 10% of the time. In some groups it is as low as 3%.
04 Nov 08

Kanban, Flow and Cadence « AvailAgility

The following guidelines can be useful to help in this situation.

1. Can you help progress an existing kanban? Work on that.
2. Don’t have the right skills? Find the bottleneck and work to release it.
3. Don’t have the right skills? Pull in work from the queue.
4. Can’t start anything in the queue? Is there any lower priority to start investigating?
5. There is nothing lower priority? Find other interesting work.

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    • The following guidelines can be useful to help in this situation.



      1. Can you help progress an existing kanban? Work on that.
      2. Don’t have the right skills? Find the bottleneck and work to release it.
      3. Don’t have the right skills? Pull in work from the queue.
      4. Can’t start anything in the queue? Is there any lower priority to start investigating?
      5. There is nothing lower priority? Find other interesting work.
  • The consequences of using a kanban system are that the Product Backlog can be eliminated, because the immediate queue is the only work of interest, timeboxed iterations (i.e.Sprints) can be eliminated, because work is pulled as necessary, and estimation can be eliminated, because work is not planned into iterations.
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