Sunday 30 December 2007
Saturday 22 December 2007
Friday 21 December 2007
Thursday 20 December 2007
Thursday 13 December 2007
Motivating Project Staff over Christmas
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
It takes a talented Project Manager to keep their project on track over this period and deliver an outstanding result. To help you do this, use these 5 tips...
Tip 1: Plan Ahead
Often, Project Managers have no idea who is taking leave until the week before Christmas. So they suddenly become short of resource and unplanned delays occur. You need to plan ahead.
Find out right now, who in your team wants to take leave over the Christmas period (December and January) and for how long. Then negotiate with them as to when that leave is taken. Try and schedule the leave for a timeframe that fits with your project plan. For instance, if you're in the design phase over Christmas, try and convince your construction workers to take their leave over this period.
Tip 2: Make it fun
It's fair to say that most people don't want to "slog it out" between Christmas and the New Year. They really want easy, interesting work that is fun to do. They don't want to do anything repetitive, anything stressful or anything too big, while others are on holiday. So get the most out of their performance by giving them work that fits their needs.
Every project plan is full of "fun" tasks and "mundane" tasks. Try and give your team members that stay behind and work over Christmas, some of the fun tasks to do. Whether it's researching a new solution, designing a concept, creating a marketing plan or creating prototypes, as long as the work is fun then your staff are more likely to maintain a high level of productivity.
Also, by giving them shorter tasks to complete over this period, it makes them feel like they're achieving more.
Tip 3: Don't burn-out on the run-up
Project Managers often try and finish as many deliverables before Christmas as possible, so that they can show that they have delivered more within the current year. So teams are usually stressed around this time.
It's fine to increase the work slightly before Christmas, but remember; only a percentage of your team will be taking a holiday and will be able to wind-down afterwards. So be careful not to overload the guys that will be staying around over the Christmas period, or they might burn out early in the new year. Remember: overloading only works if it is short term and is followed by a period of complete rest.
Tip 4: Regroup
Post Christmas day, many staff quickly become de-motivated. The Christmas cheer has finished, the office may feel empty and the telephone never rings! Now is the perfect time to regroup by taking your team out to lunch and revisiting your work goals for the next few weeks. Get your team together frequently over this period, so that they feel like a team within a team, while the others are away.
Tip 5: Reward and Recognize
And finally, make a special effort to reward achievement over this period, as you normally would when everyone else is there. A valued team will always be more productive!
By taking these 5 tips, you'll be able to keep team motivation levels high during the Christmas period and allow your team to gain the time to regroup, refresh and gain new energy for the coming year ahead.
Tuesday 11 December 2007
10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT
| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
August 31st, 2007
by Jason Hiner, Executive Editor
If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the "dirty little secrets" listed below may surprise you because we don't usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you've probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to add - and please, by all means, take a moment to add them to the discussion. Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT managers, and desktop support professionals. This list is not aimed at developers and programmers - they have their own set of additional dirty little secrets - but some of these will apply to them as well.
10.) The pay in IT is good compared to many other professions, but since they pay you well, they often think they own you
Although the pay for IT professionals is not as great as it was before the dot-com flameout and the IT backlash in 2001-2002, IT workers still make very good money compared to many other professions (at least the ones that require only an associate's or bachelor's degree). And there is every reason to believe that IT pros will continue to be in demand in the coming decades, as technology continues to play a growing role in business and society. However, because IT professionals can be so expensive, some companies treat IT pros like they own them. If you have to answer a tech call at 9:00 PM because someone is working late, you hear, "That's just part of the job." If you need to work six hours on a Saturday to deploy a software update to avoid downtime during business hours, you get, "There's no comp time for that since you're on salary. That's why we pay you the big bucks!"
9.) It will be your fault when users make silly errors
Some users will angrily snap at you when they are frustrated. They will yell, "What's wrong with this thing?" or "This computer is NOT working!" or (my personal favorite), "What did you do to the computers?" In fact, the problem is that they accidentally deleted the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop, or unplugged the mouse from the back of the computer with their foot, or spilled their coffee on the keyboard.
8.) You will go from goat to hero and back again multiple times within any given day
When you miraculously fix something that had been keeping multiple employees from being able to work for the past 10 minutes - and they don't realize how simple the fix really was - you will become the hero of the moment and everyone's favorite employee. But they will conveniently forget about your hero anointment a few hours later when they have trouble printing because of a network slowdown - you will be enemy No. 1 at that moment. But if you show users a handy little Microsoft Outlook trick before the end of the day, you'll soon return to hero status.
7.) Certifications won't always help you become a better technologist, but they can help you land a better job or a pay raise
Headhunters and human resources departments love IT certifications. They make it easy to match up job candidates with job openings. They also make it easy for HR to screen candidates. You'll hear a lot of veteran IT pros whine about techies who were hired based on certifications but who don't have the experience to effectively do the job. They are often right. That has happened in plenty of places. But the fact is that certifications open up your career options. They show that you are organized and ambitious and have a desire to educate yourself and expand your skills. If you are an experienced IT pro and have certifications to match your experience, you will find yourself to be extremely marketable. Tech certifications are simply a way to prove your baseline knowledge and to market yourself as a professional. However, most of them are not a good indicator of how good you will be at the job.
6.) Your nontechnical co-workers will use you as personal tech support for their home PCs
Your co-workers (in addition to your friends, family, and neighbors) will view you as their personal tech support department for their home PCs and home networks. They will e-mail you, call you, and/or stop by your office to talk about how to deal with the virus that took over their home PC or the wireless router that stopped working after the last power outage and to ask you how to put their photos and videos on the Web so their grandparents in Iowa can view them. Some of them might even ask you if they can bring their home PC to the office for you to fix it. The polite ones will offer to pay you, but some of them will just hope or expect you can help them for free. Helping these folks can be very rewarding, but you have to be careful about where to draw the line and know when to decline. For help, take a look at TechRepublic's free download "Ten ways to decline a request for free tech support."
5.) Vendors and consultants will take all the credit when things work well and will blame you when things go wrong
Working with IT consultants is an important part of the job and can be one of the more challenging things to manage. Consultants bring niche expertise to help you deploy specialized systems, and when everything works right, it's a great partnership. But you have to be careful. When things go wrong, some consultants will try to push the blame off on you by arguing that their solution works great everywhere else so it must be a problem with the local IT infrastructure. Conversely, when a project is wildly successful, there are consultants who will try to take all of the credit and ignore the substantial work you did to customize and implement the solution for your company.
4.) You'll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones
One of the most attractive things about working in IT is the idea that we'll get to play with the latest cutting edge technologies. However, that's not usually the case in most IT jobs. The truth is that IT professionals typically spend far more time maintaining, babysitting, and nursing established technologies than implementing new ones. Even IT consultants, who work with more of the latest and greatest technologies, still tend to work primarily with established, proven solutions rather than the real cutting edge stuff.
3.) Veteran IT professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies
A lot of companies could implement more cutting edge stuff than they do. There are plenty of times when upgrading or replacing software or infrastructure can potentially save money and/or increase productivity and profitability. However, it's often the case that one of the largest roadblocks to migrating to new technologies is not budget constraints or management objections; it's the veteran techies in the IT department. Once they have something up and running, they are reluctant to change it. This can be a good thing because their jobs depend on keeping the infrastructure stable, but they also use that as an excuse to not spend the time to learn new things or stretch themselves in new directions. They get lazy, complacent, and self-satisfied.
2.) Some IT professionals deploy technologies that do more to consolidate their own power than to help the business
Another subtle but blameworthy thing that some IT professionals do is select and implement technologies based on how well those technologies make the business dependent on the IT pros to run them, rather than which ones are truly best for the business itself. For example, IT pros might select a solution that requires specialized skills to maintain instead of a more turnkey solution. Or an IT manager might have more of a Linux/UNIX background and so chooses a Linux-based solution over a Windows solution, even though the Windows solution is a better business decision (or, vice versa, a Windows admin might bypass a Linux-based appliance, for example). There are often excuses and justifications given for this type of behavior, but most of them are disingenuous.
1.) IT pros frequently use jargon to confuse nontechnical business managers and hide the fact that they screwed up
All IT pros - even the very best - screw things up once in a while. This is a profession where a lot is at stake and the systems that are being managed are complex and often difficult to integrate. However, not all IT pros are good at admitting when they make a mistake. Many of them take advantage of the fact that business managers (and even some high-level technical managers) don't have a good understanding of technology, and so the techies will use jargon to confuse them (and cover up the truth) when explaining why a problem or an outage occurred. For example, to tell a business manager why a financial application went down for three hours, the techie might say, "We had a blue screen of death on the SQL Server that runs that app. Damn Microsoft!" What the techie would fail to mention was that the BSOD was caused by a driver update he applied to the server without first testing it on a staging machine.
Saturday 8 December 2007
高雄净园咖啡休闲农场
观看飞机起降的地方
人山人海
可以感受到飞机起降时的冲力，怔撼的声音
最特别的，还是厕所的设计。。。
当你把门关上时。。。
厕所的墙壁是一面镜子
镜子里面是一个鸟笼
鸟笼里有几只大鸟
小解的一所一动，都被大鸟看完！
Friday 7 December 2007
Thursday 22 November 2007
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Monday 19 November 2007
Thursday 8 November 2007
Monday 5 November 2007
Friday 2 November 2007
Sunday 28 October 2007
Friday 26 October 2007
Saturday 13 October 2007
Angkasawan
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| Category: | Other |
The Expedition 16 crew members pose for a portrait at the Johnson Space Center. From the left (front row) are Russia's Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer and Soyuz commander; astronaut Peggy Whitson, commander; and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor. From the left (back row) are European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Léopold Eyharts, astronaut Garrett Reisman and astronaut Dan Tani, all flight engineers.
KUALA LUMPUR: Just weeks before the first Malaysian blasts off into space a curious controversy has arisen over, of all things his job title.
Like all International Space Station (ISS) expedition members, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor's photograph was posted on Nasa's official website. While he looks as handsome as ever in the picture
taken at the Johnson Space Centre in Texas, what has upset many Malaysians is his designation.
The Internet has been buzzing, with email flying back and forth, that instead of calling him an astronaut Nasa
referred to him as Malaysian "space flight participant", a term reserved for space tourists.
"It was kind of disappointing that Nasa didn't call him an astronaut. He's been through all kinds of tests for so long. Why isn't he recognised as a
proper astronaut?" asked Nur Alifah Mohamad Naba, 25.
The photograph of the Expedition 16 crew members shows Sheikh Muszaphar posing with Russia's Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, astronaut Peggy Whitson, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Léopold Eyharts, astronaut Garrett Reisman and astronaut
Dan Tani.
Only Sheikh Muszaphar was not referred to as an astronaut or a cosmonaut. This has led to some confusion over what the designation of our Malaysian space traveller actually is.
American space tourists Dennis Tito, Gregory Olsen and Charles Simonyi, who all paid for their trips into space, were called space flight participants, as were South African Mark Shuttleworth and Iranian Anousheh Ansari.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, an astronaut or cosmonaut "is a person trained by a human space flight programme to command, pilot, or serve as a spacecraft crewman".
Both Malaysian candidates received training for space flight in Russia, but it is unclear whether they received the same training as the Russian cosmonauts.
Sheikh Muszaphar will blast off on Oct 10 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft will dock with the ISS on Oct 12.
While the rest of his teammates on Expedition 16 are slated to remain there until spring next year, he will spend
only 10 days there -returning with members of an earlier expedition.
Meanwhile, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis said titles were of little significance compared with the trip to space.
"Let Nasa give him whatever title they want.
"What is important is that Russia recognises him as a cosmonaut," he said at a buka puasa event organised by his
ministry at the Putra World Trade Centre
Saturday 6 October 2007
Friday 5 October 2007
Monday 1 October 2007
被點名
遊戲規則：
被點名的，在自己的部落上寫下以下題目的答案，並另出一個題目，然後把所有的題目丟給另外2個人。發揮想像，讓問題更創意。
1：2007年，你的野心是什麼！
升职
2：一天早上起來，發現自己身邊的人都變成蛤蟆似的只會跳，只會呱呱叫，你怎麼辦?
昨晚的魔兽大战还没打完
3：如果發現自己最近衰到極點，你會怎麼辦?
在家睡觉
4：世界末日前三天，你最想做什麼瘋狂舉動？
去珠穆朗玛高峰
5：如果想得到的東西近在咫尺你卻全身無法動彈，你會怎麼辦？
静静的
6：理性與感性，對於你來說哪種比較占上風?
理性
7：如果看到最愛的人熟睡在自己面前，你會做些什麼？
抚摸她的头发
8：你最害怕無法達成、實現的事情或願望是什麼？
45岁退休
9：如果聽到自己心儀的人突然放屁， 你會怎麼做？
偷笑
10：當你有哆啦A夢的時光機，你會做什麼?
带一只小恐龙回来
11：如果你樂透中了200億元會怎麼花?
环游世界
12：會使用什麼手法報復仇人？
不理他
13: 使自己快樂的方法？
跟一大班朋友去吃好料
14：如果有一天遇到外星人，你會怎樣？
借他的飞船来驾驾
15: 哪一天發現自己開始禿頭時你該怎麼辦?
顺其自然
16: 如果有天你的紅顏／藍顏知己突然跟你示愛，你會......？
以为开玩笑的
17: 如果明天考试，今晚会要。。。？
足够的睡眠
点名： JunPing， Jessy Liew
Saturday 29 September 2007
我在黑社会的日子
| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Action & Adventure |
剧情介绍：
影片以复杂的剧情，交代了黑社会的勾心斗角和残酷狠毒，部分动作凶杀场面令人发指。主要讲述洪兴社龙头李坤被杀，其子李万豪返港奔丧，无意沾染黑社会的他把龙头职位推荐与谢胜出任，自己意欲回美国。但对万豪有救命之恩的杨港心有不甘，并与谢发生争斗。另一帮的棺材绳乘机杀死谢的家人，嫁祸于杨。为洪兴社众人误会不满的杨求助于周老板，不料周与棺材绳勾结，把白料放在杨的车里。万豪面对此种种，不愿做视不理，于是决定留下来……
演员表：
周润发 .... Li Man-Ho
陈慧敏 .... Tse Shing
Jing Chen .... Lunatic
张耀扬 .... Yeung Kong
Kau Lam .... Uncle Ping
Hon-Lam Pau .... Chow Sai-Lin
Ming Yan Lung .... Coffin Rope
Hong-Ning Ng .... Thug
成奎安 .... Mad Keung
仇云波 .... Coffin Rope's Man
田丰 .... Uncle Kwan
曾江 .... Sergeant Chan Tin-Lok
Chi Yeung Wong .... Little Ha's Man
Kelvin Wong .... Little Ha
Kit-Man Mak .... Jenny
以前现在
来了巴林短短的两个礼拜
感觉来了一年
原因是要去的，都去了
要玩的，都玩了
要吃的，都吃了
况且现在是斋戒月，能吃的
都很少机会买到
去年到现在，总共来了巴林三次
住上大概5个月了
以前宿舍离公司30分钟，现在2分钟
以前上班在别人办公室，现在有自已的office
以前衣服拿去dobi, 现在自已洗
以前去site坐taxi, 现在自已驾车
以前喜欢叫外卖，现在自已煮
天气依然那么热
空气依然那么多灰尘
周末依然上网，看戏，打机
感觉来了一年
原因是要去的，都去了
要玩的，都玩了
要吃的，都吃了
况且现在是斋戒月，能吃的
都很少机会买到
去年到现在，总共来了巴林三次
住上大概5个月了
以前宿舍离公司30分钟，现在2分钟
以前上班在别人办公室，现在有自已的office
以前衣服拿去dobi, 现在自已洗
以前去site坐taxi, 现在自已驾车
以前喜欢叫外卖，现在自已煮
天气依然那么热
空气依然那么多灰尘
周末依然上网，看戏，打机
Thursday 27 September 2007
Mobile SSH (Secure Shell)
Check out this:
http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/
U also can have some free applications running on SEK800i:
Gmail mobile --> http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html
Google map --> http://www.google.co.uk/gmm/index.html
MSN --> http://www.three.co.uk/personal/products_services_/windows_live_messenger.omp
Mini Opera --> http://www.operamini.com/beta/
Wayfinder --> http://www.wayfinderearth.com/
Have Fun!
Check out this:
http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/
U also can have some free applications running on SEK800i:
Gmail mobile --> http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html
Google map --> http://www.google.co.uk/gmm/index.html
MSN --> http://www.three.co.uk/personal/products_services_/windows_live_messenger.omp
Mini Opera --> http://www.operamini.com/beta/
Wayfinder --> http://www.wayfinderearth.com/
Have Fun!
Wednesday 26 September 2007
Tuesday 25 September 2007
Monday 24 September 2007
Sunday 23 September 2007
Wednesday 19 September 2007
Collegues New Car - Lumina SS
6000cc
v8 engine
400 hp
6 speed automatic
Max speed 270km/h
RM 120k
Road Tax - Free
Sunday 16 September 2007
Thursday 13 September 2007
Friday 7 September 2007
Teamwork
It takes one leader with a strong vision, to guide the rest of the team to reach Peaks!
Submitted this comics strip to HR during the "Team Work Month"
It won me RM 20 cash voucher from Metrojaya :)
Monday 3 September 2007
阿许哥辣汤餐馆 - Citrus Park (Plaza Oug, Sri Petaling
虾米包菜 ***(好多虾米哦）
炸豆腐 ***
花雕鸡 *****
辣汤 ****
三色奶茶 x 2
清凉梅花茶 x 1
一杯茶 x 1
白饭 x 4
RM 51.40
Thursday 30 August 2007
Saturday 25 August 2007
Thursday 9 August 2007
Wednesday 8 August 2007
http://www.blackle.com/
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Other |
Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.
Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002
In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.
We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.
Friday 3 August 2007
星期五 - 午餐，晚餐，看戏
比Seri Kembangan 的还要正。。。
回来大马后。。。胃口大开
午餐 - 志明海南鸡饭 (www.cheemeng.com.my)
Halal Food
2碟 烧鸡+白斩鸡 可惜白斩鸡不够滑 ：（
1碟 蒸豆腐
2碟 介兰
1碟 大葱蛋
9个饭， 7杯水
普普通通的菜竟然要 RM90。。。 太贵了
晚餐 - Puchong Kinara 瓦煲鸡饭
5 x 椰子鸡
2 x 瓦煲鸡饭 加 腊肠咸鱼
2 x 水
总共RM 52， 价钱算公道。
鬼佬也识途，叫了几个炖汤，还帮鸡脚拍照。。。
Sunday 29 July 2007
Friday 27 July 2007
Lunch @ Rabbit (Sri Petaling)
New place for lunch
RM 8.90 and you can get
1) Soup of the day + Main Course + Fruit + Drink
or
2) Rojak + Main Course + Drink
Saturday 21 July 2007
Day 1 Night - Sleeper Train
Sleeper train from Cairo to Aswan
Distance: 850+ KM
Duration: 12 hours
1 Dinner, 1 Breakfast
RM 200++
Day 1 Afternoon - Pyramid
Ticket price：
50 - Pyramid
25 - Second Pyramid (nothing to see inside and have to go through a small size tunnel. Difficult to breath inside.
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