Ottawa nears all-time snowfall recordCity’s snow-clearing costs double normal amount at $18.5MLast Updated: Thursday, March 6, 2008 | 10:28 AM ET CBC News With 357 centimetres of snow already this winter and more to come on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Ottawa seems on track to top the record 444.1 centimetres that fell in the winter …
Let me know if you like it at all John Martyn with Kathy Mattea – May You Neveror do you like this version better? John Martyn – May You Never Technorati Tags: Music, Video
Some of the best short entertainment pieces are commercials like these two:Let this guy contribute to the environment Beer opening competition Technorati Tags: Entertainment, humour, Video
Over at the Life Learning today blog there is a post about how to teach children to be good and happy people. The best way is to be a role model: “Practice what you preach”. Many of these objectives should be obvious but isn’t it worthwhile to have the list to remind ourselves sometimes of …
Guy Kawasaki was one of the original Mac evangelists for Apple computer and now is a venture capitalist who plays hockey. On his blog he has a video on a clever idea to use the energy from a children’s play structure to provide clean water for a village.The importance of clean water is explained in …
Stephen Covey in the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People writes about the gap between stimulus and response where we have free will to chose and take responsibility for our response. This is habit 1 Be Proactive. To quote from the 7 Habits wikipedia article: 1. Be Proactive. Here, Covey emphasizes the original sense of …
Check out this Youtube video on whether it is a good idea to do something about global warming. Arnold Schwarzenegger also has an environmental message that managing the risk doesn’t have to be all about sacrifice and not living an attractive lifestyle. Technorati Tags: Environment
Here is a wishlist of Wii interactive games from Brain academy, Dance Dance revolution, Guitar Hero, on up to Boogie. Description Purchase Price Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party Bundle (Nintendo Wii) Buy Online $79.99 Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo Wii) Buy Online $49.99 Cranium Kabooki (Nintendo Wii) Buy Online $39.99 Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest …
This article from lifehacker provides an overview of why so many people are keen about using lists to achieve their goals and different ways it can be approached.Breaking goals down into small tasks and focussing on the next action can be really effective in tracking progress (love those little checkmarks) and getting things done (GTD). …
I am still using Googledocs for some of my goal tracking but I found joesgoals has a lot of the features I was looking for.I particularly like the capability of tracking both things you want to reduce and things you want to increase.Ben Franklin’s virtues of tracking goals for not doing things can be balanced …