Glenda (Gloria, whatever) go away
Glenda sure messed up the week for most of us. And the guy who came before she did, Domeng, yeah, he ruined a few things for me as well.
Domeng made me miss two days of going to the office (but not of work, as I will later explain). DECS willy-nilly cancelled school and then took it back. Kuya Maui didn’t mind … it was his birthday on the 12th. He’s 14 now and noticeably taller than his mom.
Domeng showed us we needed to fix the roof on either side of the house. His sudden downpours made us remember Iligan, the land of the waterfalls, because the water came streaming down the walls on the kitchen and in the office area where the computers are. Made me wish I could get something like the setups on directbuy. He also made it difficult for the phone lines to function properly, and our DSL kept getting disconnected as his rains came and went.
Last Friday night (the 21st) I got a text message from my Dad telling me our Lolo Mike had passed on. Lolo Mike is the oldest of all my grandparents, at 86. He looked real nice lying there, but then he’d always been the looker, Lolo Mike was. I saw my relatives again at the wake, and heard the usual jokes about the weight gain and the short hair (yeah, my hair used to be waist-length and curly).
Glenda made us cancel plans to go malling at the humongous Mall of Asia and lunch at Dampa (at that new place near the mall) for my birthday on Sunday. She didn’t keep me from taking a quick ride to the nearby KFC and Pancit ng Taga Malabon to pick up merienda-into-dinner stuff. There are no pictures from my birthday. Mainly because we all looked like we stayed in bed.
We were marooned again Monday and Tuesday, with Kuya Maui delighted that DECS called no classes even the night before. What he wasn’t delighted about was the SONA, which he was forced to hear snippets of, since his computer station was only a few feet away from the t.v. I still worked, wonders of the Internet yeah, didn’t have an excuse not to put up the new company mining blog entries and the mods to the website.
Sam’s got a good one about the SONA.
Manage a 24-hour day
I can’t.
Last Friday two co-workers and I attended a Time Management seminar at 6750. It was sponsored by Microsoft and given buy People Ignite. It was supposed to set us on the right course on how to manage our time, not only in the office, but in our life in general.
I must admit there was nothing said there that I hadn’t heard before, from my father who I consider among the best managers of all time.
We were taught to divide our daily concerns into 4 Quadrants:
- Urgent AND Important
- Urgent BUT NOT Important
- NOT Urgent BUT Important
and
- NOT Urgent AND NOT Important
Once you have examined your concerns and tasks and have placed then into the proper Quadrants you will be able to manage your day and end it with a feeling of accomplishment. We were able to classify office meetings, emails in reply to clients, dates and family outings and personal activities into where we felt they belonged. The trick was to stick to it.
Now almost a week after that seminar I got up at 6am (instead of my usual 8am) just to write this blog, otherwise I may not have an entry for the rest of the week.
A 30-hour day would be good.
Tagged by the Wandering Deity
Weird Habits Tag
The writer will create a blog with “6 weird things/habits about yourself.”
People who get tagged will have to post a blog of their own telling 6 weird things/habits about themselves.
At the end of your 6 weird/things/habits, you need to choose 6 people that you would like to be tagged and list their names.
Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “You are Tagged!” in their comments and tell them to read yours for instructions on how to proceed!
Here goes …
1. I argue with my monitor when things are not working the way I want them to on the websites I make. I do this no matter who happens to be in the room with me.
2. I unintentionally start sounding like the person I am having a long conversation with. Accents and intonation are contagious.
3. I actually keep bus tickets in my bag instead of throwing them away after I’ve alit at my destination. Sometimes the tickets stay in my bag for a week until I decide to throw them away or change bags.
4. When I make coffee (brewed or instant) I put in the sugar before the coffee.
5. When I’m bored I doodle lines and arrowheads that point to nowhere.
6. I talk to my plants. Which may be a habit I should drop, as none of my plants seem to live very long.
I now tag the following people:
So that’s how they taste like …
Something you should do before they wise up and take the thing down.
Go to www.google.com.
Enter “earthworm hamburger” as a seach term, with or without the quotes.
Look at the top result. Click on the link and look at the bottom part of the page, where it is all red but otherwise apparently blank.
Click then move the mouse over the blank red bottom part of the page and look at what you see.
Web/html savvy people, take things a bit further and do a “view source” on the page. Do a CTRL+F for an image named 1.jpg and look at the alt-text that comes with each 1×1 px image. Crafty, eh?
This is the work of a group that we in the office refer to as The Barnaby Brothers. You will find their company name in the meta and alt tags in the site mentioned above. What is unclear to me about their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) methods is did the client company know that the words “earthworm burgers” appear as meta tags on their site? Or maybe they do know and are using it to their SEO advantage?
What this company (the fastfood one) should do is take down this old site so that in time no one will find them in #1 position for earthworm burgers. As it is the cached pages in Google will serve for quite some time after the pages have been removed.
Search engines have long memories.
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