Author: ericblue

Pachelbel Rant

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA little bit of music humor for the weekend….

33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity

Reading Time: 2 minutesSteve Pavlina has posted another great series of articles! I have to say this series is one of my favorites. 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity (Ariticle one, two, and three) has quite a collection of useful advice to become a more productive individual. Here are some of my personal favorites: Article 1 7 –…
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Interview with Steve Pavlina

Reading Time: 11 minutesC4Chaos (Coolmel) recently posted a great series of articles featuring an interview with Steve Pavlina.  I’m a big fan of Steve, and have a great affinity for Integral Philosophy as well.  I thoroughly enjoyed the interview and would highly recommend reading Coolmel’s posts. Article inline… B-SCAN is a series of interviews with bloggers who are…
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Last.fm Music Visualization

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLee Byron at megamu.com has posted an article illustrating some visualization using the Last.fm social music service.

Positive Psychology Exercises

Reading Time: 3 minutesI came across a great post this morning on Integral Options Cafe. This is a repost from the Personal Development Suite 101 blog. Positive Psychology Exercises Research studies point out personal development directions Maximize your personal development results and get the most benefit from your personal growth efforts by incorporating these findings from the latest…
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Getting Real? Why is Spec a Dirty Word?

Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the last few months, I’ve spent a bit of time researching various development methodologies and have seen a lot of different approaches when it comes to the software development life cycle. After attending this year’s SDExpo, I can say that I had a lot of exposure to some agile approaches and am eager to…
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Mind Mapping on Theatre of the Mind

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently came across a really fascinating Podcast on iTunes called Theatre of the Mind by Kelly Howell. The podcast I just finished listening to (originally produced last April) was on mind mapping and featured Michael Gelb, author of a number of books on creativity, accelerated learning, and mind mapping. Here’s an overview of the…
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Listening To Words: Free Lectures on the Web

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI discovered a fairly new site called listeningtowords that provides a collection of links to free online lectures and courses. Here’s a sample of some of the more popular lectures: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole Power & Responsibility: Science, Humanity and Religion in the 21st century Linked: Networks from Biology to the…
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Advanced Network Performance Visualization

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInformation Aesthetics (infostetics) recently posted an intriguing article on a new network monitoring product called Netcosm. “Netcosm is one of many technology projects underway in the NetQoS Performance Labs and is one example of research on advanced visualization techniques to make complex network performance data simple…. Using color, shape, speed, size, changes in sound tone…
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How to Fix a Corrupt IPod/ITunes music database

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe other week I posted an article about my IPod music and videos suddenly disappearing. I had some time this evening to start digging into the problem and came up with some interesting results. The first thing I did was backup my entire iPod (originally formatted under Windows). I was planning on restoring, and then…
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