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This should be posted in all schools and work places.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
For many, organization was just a dream, something we aspired to reach but couldn’t. Then, devices came along that helped organize our lives. Do you remember the personal digital assistants (or PDAs) when they first came out? But like all great technology, they’ve evolved and part of that evolvement is what you see in the PDA smart phone you can now purchase.
Old PDA electronic devices were made to fit comfortably inside the hand and were lightweight enough to be used all the time without strain. They certainly made keeping track of the day a lot easier.
While the PDA of old couldn’t function as a cell phone, a cell phone can function as a PDA. So you can still get all the things you loved about having a PDA and more. That means you get a cell phone that can act as a computer and help keep you on track. It’ll remind you about your appointments, keep up with all your contacts and even let you make that all important to-do list.
You’ll be able to get connected to the Internet to surf or check your messages so that you’re never out of reach. Plus, with some models, you can synchronize them with your home computer and you can even be able to use instant messaging. Many also come with word processors so that you can use the program to write whatever you need.
You can find that some models of a PDA smart phone come unlocked by the manufacturer. An unlocked phone means that you can use your SIM card even if the service provider isn’t the one who provided the phone.
When phones are locked, it won’t allow the information on your SIM card to be read. There are pros and cons to either side of the unlocked versus locked argument but do keep in mind that unlocked phones are generally more expensive.
The features you can get with a smart phone that has PDA ability are many. You can get a keyboard that makes typing easy and quick to use, a color LCD screen to make viewing the menu and completing tasks a pleasure, a way to take clear pictures that you can transfer to your computer and send friends and family and more.
If you’re already a super organized person who never loses track of any appointments, you can still benefit from the features of a PDA because you’ll be able to rest assured that all your important information is at your fingertips.
You won’t have to switch between using a PDA to hunt for information you need and then using your cell phone. When you want to keep your life organized, having a PDA smart phone can help you reach and maintain that goal.
Taken from http://nerdreview.net/mobile/let-a-pda-smart-phone-organize-your-life/
Do you find yourself in a shambles throughout the workday? Are deadlines impossible to meet? Is rummaging through your PC a task best left for treasure hunters? If so, you need some serious organization to get your office life on track. Some of you may think this an impossible task. It’s not. All you need is a little time and effort and you can be as organized as you want. Of course, organization doesn’t just mean neat and tidy. Organization covers just about anything that will keep your day-to-day needs and schedule on track. Here are various ways you can accomplish this seemingly impossible feat.
WordPress 3 has finally been released for bloggers.
Major Changes And Features in WordPress 3.0
-The Default Theme is the new sexy looking “Twenty Ten”
-Easy Implementation of Custom Backgrounds, Headers, Shortlinks, Post Types, Taxonomies and Menus
-Multi-Site functionality with the merge of MU and WordPress
-Contextual Help Function t the top right on every screen
-New Updates Tab in Dashboard for a Single Click Update of Entire WordPress Core, Plugins.
-WordPress claims it has fixed 1127 bugs and feature enhancements
You can down load it from WordPress site.
Being a freelance web designer is definitely hard work! But if you are willing to put in the time and effort it takes to be a good one (i.e. make a living), it can be both financially rewarding and fun! Here are a few articles, links, and tools to help you along on your freelancing journey…
This article has many useful links for freelancers.
http://anidandesign.com/web-design/resources-for-freelance-web-designers/
I like this article, it also has links of some other helpful article, here is the link:
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/How_to_Survive_as_a_Freelancer
Author says:
“When I first started freelancing as a college student, I was eager to do any website and would say “Yes” to anything, regardless of my skill set or the time involved. It was just nice to know that someone needed me for a skilled task. Unfortunately, I quickly found myself working all the time, eating Ramen noodles, and not getting anywhere in terms of paying off my wonderful college debt. To make things worse, these people were also giving my contact info out to other such people (you know, the lady who has been thinking about selling dog sweaters online and has a $100 budget for an e-commerce site, 1000 brochures, and a guaranteed #1 Google search result for the words “dog”, “sweater”, and “love”).”
Here is the complete article
http://www.wakeuplater.com/freelance-lessons/10-absolute-nos-for-freelancers.aspx
I like to share some nice articles about web development mistakes, hope we can avoid it.
Here are some interesting points, let’s check out sites.