M.Y. Lessons Learnt

Boston is really a nice city. Check out the photo album (an utility called SimpleViewer is used) to find out … http://www.80days.com/boston/

Filed under: Book, Off Topics, Photography, Travel on August 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

The first copy of the photo book is good looking and beautifully printed, so I think it is time to make it public and available for sale online in Blurb.com. One can pick up a copy of the book with soft cover, hardcover with or without dust jacket.
Frankly, I don’t expect to sell any, but [...]

Filed under: Book, Photography, Travel on June 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This beauty finally arrived from the mail and it looks absolutely gorgeous. It took altogether 4 weeks to finish and here are the details:

Day 01 - download the free software BookSmart from Blurb.com
Day 02 - starts the “design” of the book … and it lasts 15 days, as I needed to select the photos, add [...]

Filed under: Book, Photography, Travel on June 17th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

According to the productivity guru David Allen, we shall re-read his book Getting Things Done every three to six months - to see if we can learn something new. But after reading his book two times in the past already, it is not easy to pick up the book again. So this time I tried [...]

Filed under: Book, Services & Products on June 1st, 2008 | No Comments »

Last week hundreds of thousands people went through their lives’ worst setback, it is about time to search for recovery and reclaim their lives. According to the book, I Will Not Be Broken, there are five key stages of overcoming a crisis:

First, face the facts. “None of us will get very far without first examining [...]

Filed under: Book on May 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

I am sure many of us already mastered the use of Microsoft Project - we can produce good-looking Glant charts, critical path diagrams and even resource utilization reports. But I am also pretty sure that most (if not all) of us don’t know how to manage a project, even with the powerful Microsoft Project software.
So [...]

Filed under: Book, Technology on April 1st, 2008 | No Comments »

Finished the book Presentation Zen (see below) some time ago but still I was puzzled by one thing. That is, even we can create the most eye-catching slides with today’s advance graphic software, but how can we make the message we send across stick in the audiences’ minds ? It’s the reason we do the [...]

Filed under: Book, Presentation, Services & Products on March 31st, 2008 | No Comments »

Oh new books arrived today from Amazon, just before the long weekend. Good timing … perfect to kick start my 2008 Q1 reading plan. My plan for this quarter is to finished some readings about presentation and ROR. Therefore, here they are:

Filed under: Book on February 6th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

What is a good customer services experience ? Here is one example …
As the owner of the Search Engine Marketing 1.0 by Dan Thies, I had a chance to upgrade to the version 2.0 with a discount. I therefore ordered the new book and it arrived yesterday. However, I found another book in the package [...]

Filed under: Book, Services & Products on January 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »

One of the best book this year, I would say, is The Black Swan Theory. You may wonder why the theory is called “the Black Swan”. According to Wikipedia,
The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that all swans were white. In that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that [...]

Filed under: Book on December 29th, 2007 | 3 Comments »