Blog Pickle - quote - illiterate

Quote found on Facebook status:

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."  - Toffler

Blog Pickle - Awesome quote site

I love quotes on almost any topic and needed a little pick me up this morning and found this site - http://thinkexist.com  . There are probably quite a few others out there, but I'll worry about them later. There are enough quotes on here to keep anyone busy for a while.

Blog Pickle - quote - politics

From a Facebook wall:

Quote of the day:
Jesus was a community organizer; Pontius Pilate was a governor.

For future reference - this is comparing Barak Obama experience to Sarah Palin. Very clever...however, one is running for president and the other for vice-president and...the position Jesus plays in this world doesn't happen to be up for a vote in an election process.

Nevertheless...clever and eye-catching.

Blog Pickle - Requirements gathering

Ok, so I looked at http://floodchronicles.blogspot.com/2008/09/reinventing-stop-sign.html 

and can totally relate. In fact, I will have to find the famous (in government anyway) cartoon strip about what the government asked for and what the contractor thought they should create.

However, this does a pretty good job of demonstrating daily life in the world of clients and contractors understanding requirements...or not understanding.

http://www.glumbert.com/media/stopsigndesign 

Blog Pickle - Cake Decorating blog - Cake Wrecks

Someone shared this on a friend's wall on Facebook and I thought it had some fairly interesting cake decorating wrecks.

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

Blog Pickle - quote - dreams and success

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life in which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.--Thoreau

Blog Pickle - Quote - managing the good and the bad

Found on Facebook status

Mark - David Weinberger- "we manage the abundance of the bad but we don't know how to manage the abundance of the good".via Twitter - 8:44am - Comment

This has great meaning to me today because I find that we sometimes spend a lot of time trying to make sure "non-performers" are accommodated even though they are creating more work for everyone else. Meanwhile, the performers get overworked and under appreciated. Time to manage differently and go let the non-performers not perform elsewhere.

Blog Pickle - quote - boat rocking

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

--Jean-Paul Sartre

There is a lot of truth to do this, but sometimes ....it's a good idea to stop rowing and see where you are headed. So, I guess it depends upon the reason that you stopped rowing - rest, laziness, confusion, re-assess, etc.

Blog Pickle - quote - Freedom

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong... Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words", said by John Diefenbaker^[40]. - pulled from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_catch_phrases

Blog Pickle - Quote - Dream it

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Blog Pickle - Coconut Oil

I just read an interesting blog entry on a friend's blog - http://floodchronicles.blogspot.com/2008/09/coconut-oil-week-one.html - about coconut oil.

Hmm. I'm willing to give it a try. I'm exercising a lot and trying to eat healthier and have taken off 10 pounds in the last two months, but it would be nice to speed the process up a bit, aye?

Blog Pickle - Quote - Excellence

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

Blog Pickle - quote - idiotic job

A quote from the book that I am reading called Maslow on Management from the journals of Abraham H. Maslow:

"To do some idiotic job very well is certainly not real achievement. I like my phrasing, "what is not worth doing is not worth doing well."

Interesting.

Blog Pickle - Quote - on life storms and rain

From Heidi's blog - http://floodchronicles.blogspot.com/

Quote of the Week
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

Blog Pickle - Ubiquity for Firefox

Just another cool step in integrating all the different web capabilities.

http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/2008/08/ubiquity-from-m.html