Dolenni Diddorol / Interesting Links: October 08, 2009

Start.io: A custom homepage, made simple

"Start.io allows you to create a custom homepage, filled with links to all of your favorite Websites and blogs. You can customize the way your page looks and even choose to be notified when a site you have listed has new content."

http://demogirl.com/2009/03/26/startio-a-custom-homepage-made-simple/

1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo

"This modem was given to me ~1989 by the widow of a retired (IBM?) engineer. Computerhistory.org has a Model B dated 1965, and I've seen a ~1967 Model C written up in a magazine. (Interestingly, incorrectly identified as being only 110 baud.)

Even better than seeing it in a museum, I decide to hook the trusty Model A up and make it talk to something. After some trial and error, I manage to get it to talk to a terminal server at work and use it to connect to a linux box. It's ALIVE! So, 45 years after it's creation, this antique modem gets to send data to and from the modern Internet."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE

Deming and Performance Appraisal

"Performance appraisals were replaced with ‘development appraisals’ which focused on how they achieved the goals relative to company and team values, etc. Customer satisfaction and Teamwork where key values. Coaching was done throughout the year.. An employee education process and center soon followed to help employees and teams improve their performance; the company supported pursuit of undergraduate and advanced degrees and most important, partnering with nearby universities and professional associations to help every level of the organization improve and share our experiences with others."

http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2008/04/22/deming-and-performance-appraisal/

Schneier on Security - UK Defense Security Manual Leaked

"it seems to be the bureaucratic equivalent of spaghetti code: a hodgepodge of things written by people from different backgrounds, and with different degrees of clue, in different decades."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/10/uk_defense_secu.html

"When moving a Hippopotamus by road, in no case should the container nor any truck bearing the container be labeled "Hippopotamus"."

FOSS Wiki - Freeware and Open Source Software

"Founder, Stacy Reed: I made FOSSwiki because I needed a place to keep track of my favorite freeware applications. I've been an advocate for free and open source software for many years and I thought this would be a great resource for friends and family to find it all in one place."

http://foss.librarianchick.com/

Buddhism In The West - Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

"To establish the practice lineage, it must be passed down through realizations of the teachings on view, meditation and conduct. Whatever instructions are given to us must be completely understood through our own personal experience. Only then will our own realizations be real and equal to the realizations passed down to us. By embodying, or holding, realization in this way, we can actually free ourselves from the suffering of samsara and cyclic existence and fulfill the greater motivation of benefiting others. With time and the consistent effort of many people dedicating their lives to finding meaning through the practice of dharma we can really establish the practice lineage."

http://mindrollinginternational.org/dharmadhrishti/journal/2009_Spring/DzKR_BuddhismInTheWest.cfm

"We have to think long term; thinking about a few centuries is actually very short term when we think about mankind and what might serve mankind best. Technology and science have contributed much to the progress and comfort of mankind. If however, the true spirit of human beings is to flourish in a genuine and positive way, it will depend on how much dharma is there in the world—not just dharma in name, but dharma in essence."

Britain’s Secret Underground City

"Imagine being caught in the middle of a nuclear war. You’re terrified of the fall out and all you want to do is spend time with your family. You know you may never see them again, so time is precious. Then imagine that your work inform you that you can’t go home (just when you thought you had the perfect excuse not to have to work for a very long time), you can’t see your family one last time, because unbeknownst to you, you’ll be serving queen and country for just a little while longer. Only this time you don’t get to see the light of day, well not much light gets through the walls of a nuclear bunker."

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/britain-secret-underground-city/5162

"This extraordinary city was kept in working order for 30 years, just in case, but in 1991, at the end of the Cold War, the MOD took over management of it until it was decommissioned last year. Since then all memorabilia has been removed and today the only guard protecting the entrance to this remarkable piece of British history is a solitary garden gnome."

""You Americans are always going on and on about the 'Second Coming' of Jesus Christ [...] Well, he came, and you missed it."" (attributed to Gyaltrul Rinpoche) ... "He was talking about Trungpa Rinpoche"

http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.com/2009/08/did-trungpa-die-for-our-sins.html

Dolenni Diddorol / Interesting Links

Pages

2009-10-08