Hungry, and not precisely for a life of understanding...Guess I'll need to pay a visit to El Rey.

The roots of this lie within DJ Black's ability to fulfill the requirements or racism inherent to his origins?. http://bit.ly/z4Hwb

RT @יהוה Fiat Lux

RT @Adam @Lilith dumped me because she wanted to be on top.

@home

@Retouchiere

Ahhh the virtues of self-sufficiency :-)

Wondering if going out tonight or rather invest some time on finally starting Kafka on the shore...

Wondering what Uribe is thinking...

The Internet has allowed Autistic groups to coalesce and communicate with others...that's awesome. No longer islands.

"Oops, damn I was thinking on importing cheap by land from South America, well, I'll try again next year" ... http://bit.ly/HvH2n

An interesting article from La Gringa... http://bit.ly/lH7Sy

Wonder where's the ANAM in all this? Bat populations are in decline worldwide... http://bit.ly/ZLQ1Q

Out of an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 human genes, 4,382 genes have been claimed as US Intellectual property. http://bit.ly/h5UHJ

A Culture Ministry will be important for Panama’s ability to put culture and creativity at the centre of our national life.

Sure he won't open it...People would trough time following the power lines... http://bit.ly/XzEY8

This genie is out of his bottle...http://bit.ly/Q0mKL

Having lunch: Weights

Indeed...

Interlude: Are you sure you want to do this, cool off...I'm done...It's been a five years relationship for G's sake...I'm done...So it be.

It seems everyone had the same impulse to do late night shopping...

I've no idea who, but it's strong enough to blind me

Just saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona, there's so much of us in every character

Note-to-self: Don't summon things that may choose to show up...

Amazing tale by an amazing lady...

Escuchando la historia de una senora sobre Omar Torrijos mientras esperamos un Taxi comprando una camisilla medium de hilo para el General

Optimism, n. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. Ambrose Bierce

@Rasputing having too many espressos and working on Artificiarium, a cabinet of artificial curiosities.

Note-to-self: Add to FreeMind: www.tepilo.com Drawing atop a 3D object Mola animation Mola filter Artificiarium

RT @chrisbrogan: Knowing what matters and who matters clears up many things in life.

Note-to-self: Mapping pen to 3D object

Could this be the solution to the lack of handwriting skills on the digital age?...http://bit.ly/19BNOt

On Monday night they rounded up 86 minors around the country...That's 10% of crime? Go figure.

Note-to-Self: I wonder if its plain luck, an over commited guardian angel, good karma or the writer of my tale rewrites reality when needed

Note-to-self: Recharge your ipod, the sort of things you may overheard at the weights room can make you question humanity's future

Off to the gym...Dear Universe, please make forget my trainer today is Legs' day

Today feels like doing some work aux trois crayons...Can't take a black/white/red image from mind, guess it wants to be created.

d yfd weight 214

d yfd drank 2 coke

Just overheard: "Married men don't live longer, it just seems longer"

Cable seated row 2x10@100 Full body workout completed now to McDonals :)

Back extensions 2x20

Cable crunch 2x8@115

Barbell close grip skull cruncher 2x8X25

Barbbell curl 2X8@45

Dumbbell shoulder press 2x8@35

Barbbell bent over row 2X8@20

Dumbbell flyes 2X8@25

212 Lb Self minus 8 Lbs

Machine leg curls 2X8@45

Doing Squats 3X8@45

Type your ping here ....A new market for "coimas" that's what this mess is. Bunch of self-rigtheous ...

Type your ping here ...All this money and resources to target 1O percent of "crime" what about the other 90 percent

Mayin when asked if the parents are poor and dont have the money to take their kids out:That's not an excuse

You're betting our future on a test...One of them, I'm betting just one possible future, a safe one...Safe choices leads to stagnation.

Interlude:You had to do it, right?...To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen

Note-to-self: We ran out of Jerk sauce...

Interlude: The rest I will tell to those down in Hades...You might add if we ever get there in the first place...

5 poems and a song in one morning...dare to deny you are in love...

Interlude: I hate when you're in love with the same person too long...Why?...You start to show it, God help us if this one is the one.

The sea is always good. There is nothing I can look at for very long except the sea...and well, you on your sleep.

I should'd change my workplace before, working while looking at the sea reminds you there's always going to be something bigger...

You take much more than I'd ever ask for...

Finally, after months, I've a chance to install the new printer...

Note-to-self: Don't listen idoser's Genesis at work, had to reset twice! Good for sunrise trips tought.

Resseting to 8Khz...

Listening Clint Mansell + iDoser's Genesis...

When you're too in love to let it go, but if you never try you'll never know just what you're worth...

To have a friend is to acknowledge that some part of someone else's life might well die with us.

To have a friend is to acknowledge that some part of someone else's life might well die with us.

I'm all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and you're all earth. You're here to ground me, and I'm here to help you fly....

When you are walking, walk. When you are sitting, sit. When you are Ken, Multitask.

This lesson is so evident that sometimes we forget it. One cannot have a single thing without its
opposite...

Hence I noted my two favourite activities are four letter words...

Dear self, her nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus, hippocampus and insula are firing up like it's New Year's eve...CEASE FLIRTING NOW.

England wins 2nd Ashes Test against Australia by 115 runs!

Pondering into the incomprehensible scale of the Earth as an object while I devour a Pizza slice delivered by a flirtatious maid...

The wind carries music, water and sea salt today. It seems is going to rain...

NOTE-TO-SELF: Don't drink Fernet mixed with anything if you'd been working all night and your bff birthday party starts in two hours...Damn!

You must be at heathrow waiting for your flight to depart...probably pissed off because you had no news from me...

How to prepare my CV before january ends

"It was enlightened, amazing the things I'd do since the last CV update."

How I did it: I couldn't find my old CV. I started from scratch using the generic CV we use at the office to submit as part of project documentation.

Then I did some research, the new CV should reflect what I'm looking on a prospect employers, so I made more emphasis on my role in every main project I took part. Also put a section with all the technical background.

Lessons & tips: -Decide who's going to be the receiver, and what you as him/her would like to now first.

-Start! it only would take like 10 minutes, but if you never do, you'll never have it on your hand.

Resources: -Google

It took me 4 months.

It made me

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How to record all the books i read

"God, I read a lot!!"

How I did it: There's a website called weRead, it has a facebook application (called back then iread). It really makes you easy to look for the books you have read and mark them as readed, reading, wanting to read, won't read, also allows you to chuck books to your friends, leave comments, tags and ratings.

Downside, there's no way to get that data back to you for other purpouses.

Lessons & tips: If you can't find a book you can import the basic data, if you can't see your edition click a small link under the cover that reads "show all editions".

Resources: http://www.weread.com 

It took me 3 months.

It made me

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How to create a container garden on my porch

"Wicked"

How I did it: Went on a shopping spree, got the containers, two soil bags, gardening tools, four kitchen herbs ready to plant, 2 packages of vegetable seeds, four different types of floweris.

Lessons & tips: Keep handy a lot of old newspapers in order not to have to clean the soil later (it can get messy)

Resources: -Local gardening store

It took me 1 day.

It made me

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2009-03-10

1. Knowing what’s me and what’s not me.
2. Contentment
3. Family
4. Sarah Brightman’s voice
5. Silence

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Installed Fusion, 3D Lightwave, iClone and Blender. I’ll get familiar with the computer animation workflow and tools this month.

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2009-03-08

1. A sunny day
2. Time to myself
3. Mom’s visit
4. All the women in my life
5. Summer breeze

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Lacking on all my goals...

I need to stop, reevaluate and schedule to identify where I’m wasting my time!

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22090129

1. Reading this entry about the Goal PRESERVE marriage rights in California
2. The anxiety I’m feeling, it says to me I should stop and have a conversation with myself to find the source.
3. Keeping clean my desk for two days in a row! WOW!!!
4. Family
5. Feeling blessed despite the circunstances.

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Registered the domain...

http://www.ken-chen.co.cc

The Main page would be Curriculum Data.

Pondering if adding links to my personals blogs.

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20090127

Installed the latest version of Jasper Reports and downloading the new version of Pentaho. Still worried it would be to overkill for my development machine.

Found an open source library to implement a secure shell connection, hope it would help me to solve the issues I’m having with my current setup emulating the interaction with the solaris client.

Urbanitas and Artificiarum DNS problems solved last night, finished configuring Wordpress around 1:00am. Now to install Joomla at Hegemon and ken-chen domains.

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20090127

1. A Sunny day.
2. A woman giving birth to eight kids.
3. Completing the setup of www.urbanitas.co.cc and www.artificiarium.co.cc
4. A cold Canada dry.
5. Goals.

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Targets for the remaining of the week

Connect:
Start a conversation with a total stranger every day
Be Active:
Running at the park everyday
Take Notice:
Carry my digital camera everywhere every time
Keep Learning:
Get familiar with Wordpress, Magento, Jasper Reports, Actionscript and Pentaho.

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GTD David Allen's desk

http://lifehacker.com/5138412/take-a-tour-of-david-allens-office

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Things to ponder...courtesy of 43 things goals..

1.Stop holding on to the things that clutter my home and my life

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How to clean my desk

"You'll need a whole evening"

How I did it: Started picking stuff and sorting them atop my bed in groups like books, materials, references,cables, equipment, etc.

After everything was sorted and grouped I cleaned the Desk.

Decided then what I needed the most and start to put those stuff back, i.e. Desk Lamp, laptops, keyboards, mouse, picture frames,etc.

When that was complete I started to processing every remaining pile using the GTD Inbox approach, that was what took the longest.

Lessons & tips:

1. Choose a day you'll know you won't be interrupted


2. Have handy soft-drinks and snacks in order not to get distracted by preparing lunch or dinner. 


3. Put some energy boosting music, turn off TV. 


4. Make a list of the things you really want back on your desk.  


5. Take stuff once at a time and put on piles close by in the floor (I used my bed since my desk is inside my bedroom) sorted by purpouse. 


6. Have a trashcan and everything that you can judge to be trash throw it right there.  


7. Put back the stuff in your list.  


8. Start processing the remaining stuff in the piles using the GTD Inbox approach: Every item has to be placed inmediatly, wether that would be storage, a box or the trashcan, don't follow priorities after all you'll need to process everything. 


9. Relax and enjoy your new tidy and spacious desk. 

Resources:

1. 43folders blog


2. Zen habits blog 


3. Flylady 


4. 43thingers 


5. Getting Things Done 


6. Ferry Corsten's Right of way CD  


7. Big trash bags 


8. A couple of cartoon boxes 


9. Cleaning stuff. 

It took me 1 day.

It made me Überhappy

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Today's 26-jan-2009

New report, I would need to parse the statistics of every text file in the inbox and compare with the results once loaded, put that in a table so I can use Jasper to create a daily report on the loads.

I’ll need bash/Sed/awk/java/jdbc/pl/sql and an Oracle db.

Still fighting with the artificiarium domain, it’s the same configuration I’m using with the urbanitas one but the webserver is not answering correctly, I’m pissed off since that would be my daily vent blog.

Installed Wordpress at Urbanitas, still not sure about the services there but guess learning this new version would be worth.

Finished configuring Magento’s installation at Jessy’s domain.

Half trough the actionscript book it’s kind of boring.

Testing new version of Jasper, Pentaho was too overkill to be running on my machine to present as a decent demo so in the interim I’m generating the reports from within java programs, however I think that would be a good reporting environment for the daily extractions without requiring for them to use Business Objects.

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Today's 26-jan-2009

1. Finally cleaning up my desk
2. Completing the planned tasks
3. Coffee
4. Ikea
5. Books

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Temptative list of what to put back on my desk...

2 computer monitors
2 Laptops
1 Desktop Tower
1 PocketPC cradle
1 wireless keyboard
1 wireless mouse
1 Pen tablet
1 Printer
1 switch
1 desk lamp
2 Picture frames
1 Mouse Pad
1 set of speakers

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There we go again...

I stayed at home last night I woke up pretty early. Since I’d all this T I M E I decided to go on with cleaning off my desk.

BIG MISTAKE

It’s 4:00pm and I’d just clear off half of it, the other half of course being on my bed waiting to be catalogued.

Well, hope I finish cleaning it before the sun goes down, a clean desk only looks good under sunlight.

It’s a beautiful summer day, the pool must be cool and there’s a lot of breeze and singing birds…

BIG MISTAKE

:)

Wish me luck!

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Background...

NEF was commissioned by the UK Government’s Foresight project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing to develop a set of evidence-based actions to improve personal well-being. In this report, nef presents the evidence and rationale between each of the actions, drawing on a wealth of psychological and economic literature.

The 2008 Mental Capital and Wellbeing Project aims to analyse the most important drivers of mental capital and well-being to develop a long-term vision for maximising mental capital and well-being in the UK for the benefits of society and the individual.

The concept of well-being comprises two main elements: feeling good and functioning well. Feelings of happiness, contentment, enjoyment, curiosity and engagement are characteristic of someone who has a positive experience of their life. Equally important for well-being is our functioning in the world. Experiencing positive relationships, having some control over one’s life and having a sense of purpose are all important attributes of wellbeing.

The Study

A Good article on the 5 daily actions with examples

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