Archive for September, 2008
Some software you may be interested in
1. MindManager. MindManager will help you generate ideas. you can write topic, sentence, word, freely on it, and drag it from one subtopic to another one. Want to know more about it, please visit http://bbs.21manager.com/index.asp?boardid=161.
2. EyeGuard. a smart but useful one, I use it to remind me that I should have a rest after a long time work.
3. Lingoes. I know that many people use iciba（金山词霸）, try Lingoes, you will love it. smart but smart. www.lingoes.cn
4. FOX PDF editor. Can PDF be edited? yes, fox PDF editor will help you do that.
5. HyperSnap. want to catch up some pictures? try it.
6. MyMoneyMaster. you want to write down how you spend you money? it will help you.
7. igoogle. don’t forget it. I really like it. how to use it? well, that completely depends on you. Whatever, you should have a gmail account before you use igoogle.
8. google desktop search. you have too many files and sometimes be lost in files? why not use it to help you?
9. FtpList. you want to tell your friends the list of ebook you have collected? how to tell him/her? use ftplist to generate the file name list.
10. depends on you. there are so many tools you can find, in my opinion, any problem you meet, you can find some software to help you. if you don’t know how to find, why not use google?
Perception is reality
王冉在《华尔街大地震后的几点思考》说到：
表象即现实，也就是英文常说的Perception is reality。我在《谁谋杀了贝尔斯登》中曾经说：“贝尔斯登之所以在48小时之内迅速崩盘，并不是因为它真的需要崩盘，而仅仅是因为人们怀疑它可能要崩盘。这正是这件事最可怕的地方…支撑现代金融体系最重要的基础不是物理世界中的实物资产，而是人们对于这个体系本身的信心以及这个体系中参与者在其他参与者心目中的信用。一旦信心动摇，一旦信用不再，再高的大厦也会在顷刻之间轰然坍塌，速度甚至比911中的世贸中心还要快。”上面这段话，我完全可以把“贝尔斯登”四个字换成“雷曼兄弟”原原本本再说一遍。
Just do it, and learn from mistakes you made
Well, today, a friend of mine asked me whether he should do something or not.
I answered, "well, try it, you can learn from mistakes you made." Don’t worry that you may make mistake if you do something.
We should accept the idea that making mistakes is part of our lives. Allowing us making mistake and have courage to try new things. If we’re worry about making mistake, then we will do nothing and be stagnated.
Just do it, and learn from mistakes you made.
人当心怀感激之情
刚回来看GOOGLE READER, 很伤心地看到Archi Pei 在simadu.com的网站已经被他删除了。
在这个世界，做个好人就这么难？
他在一段话里说到：“这个世界上比我有出息的人很多，比我事业更成功的人很多，但是，他们当中的任何一个人都不会理睬你。他们不开博客。他们不接受八竿子打不着的弟弟妹妹或者朋友的邮件。他们不会给你任何信息。他们不会接受你请的咖啡，也不会请你喝酒。他们不会接你的电话。他们不回你的短信。”
我一向很感谢那些帮助我和朋友，或亲或友，或仅仅是一面之交。但别人在帮助我的时候，我知道我都在占用他们的时间，他们没有义务一定要帮我，或者，有的事情，他们也不一定能够做到。如果他们帮我做到了，我会很感谢他们；如果没有做到，要多体谅别人。他们有他们要忙碌的事情，他们也可能会忘记，他们也可能无法给你提供帮助。甚至，他们有时间，他们有能力，但你也要记住，没有谁有义务为你做什么，你没有权力去要求别人。
Be diligent and take action
Few, if not none, will admit that s/he is a lazy guy. But I do find that some are lazy, as least I think so.
As far as I concerned, many things we can (learn to ) do them by ourselves. Teachers can be in many forms. Internet is always the best teacher, and free, that we can turn for help at any time.
I like to use Google and Wikipedia. Of course, many people use Google, but few have taken time to learn how to use those advanced skills of how to use it. you want to know? Why not click "Advanced search" at the right of the searching box? Take some time reading how to use them. If there are still something you are not familiar with and want to know more, why not use help and google itself to help you?
Don’t stay at your previous status. If you do something that consumes you lots of time and you find it’s tedious and you want to find a better way to do it or solve a problem, why not search it by internet? The more you search, the more quicker you can (and sometime you can’t) answers for your questions, and you will become more sensitive to how to use the right key words and which information you should read and sometimes work as a website crawler to seek information you want from the internet.
Wiki(www.wikipedia.org), don’t miss it. If something you have no concept, search it in wiki. Most of the time, I found what I searched in it.
Everything you want to learn takes your time, and the time you spent on studying will pay back. You will save lots of time and rewards from your study. Some people sometimes asked me how I know so many things, skills, methods. the answer it, if I don’t know, I will search it. Besides, new things always intricate me, when I encounter new things, I will take time to read more and test when it interests me or not.
Taking I have subscribed so many blogs by google reader( you don’t know what is google reader? why not search it?) for instance. These blogs I subscribed are from kinds of ways, by my friends, by google, by douban, by the articles I read.
You should be diligent, sensitive, aggressive and positive, and, take actions. Of course you will make mistake, take it easy, everyone makes mistake, only if s/he do nothing. If you just stay there and do nothing, nothing will change.
Import your MSN contacts to new account
You don’t like the old name of your present MSN account and want to apply a new account? But, there are so many contacts, it’s hard to image how to add so many contacts to your new account again. Thus, you abandon the idea.
Well, don’t worry. In fact, you can do it in a few seconds.
Step 1: in your old MSN, select "Show Menu"
Step 2: Contacts–>Save instant messenge Contacts
Step 3: In your new MSN, Import them.
Done.
If you have lots of contacts in your hand, and you want to add them to your MSN’s friend list. Well, that’s easy.
Use excel to help you, and, take time to read the following blue codes as txt.
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<messenger>
<service name=".NET Messenger Service">
<contactlist>
<contact>example@hotmail.com</contact>
</contactlist>
</service>
</messenger>
save above blue codes as Contact.ctt.
then,in MSN, Contacts,Import Contacts From File
Excel help: Good but not Enough
The Excel help file is good, but not enough. Many operating functions and skills need to be learnt by other tutorial.
Excelhome.net is a wonderful website. Often, I will turn it for help when I have some difficulties.
Of course, I need to learn more about Excel VBA. In order to master it, I have to take time reading tutorial books about VBA and make practice.
谁对谁忠诚？谁在背叛？
我已然忘记我最早是什么时候知道豆瓣(www.douban.com)的了，当然，肯定是在2005年3月之后，但却在我注册ID之前。
后来慢慢去得多了，就开始喜欢上了豆瓣。在豆瓣上，发现了很多的好书。如果没有豆瓣，很多的书我都没法知道，也不会找来读。在这一点上，我得感谢豆瓣。我在豆瓣上建着豆列，把书加入到想读的清单中，虽然很多我到现在还没有去读。因为我读书的速度远远赶不上我把书加入到我的待读清单的速度。
最开始，不时从首页的那些评论中发现一些自己也感兴趣的书，然后追根溯源，找到更多的书。而我的阅读视野也因此而扩大，阅读了一些我如果不是因为首页的推荐而可能从来不会去读的书。在每本书的下面有着“喜欢‘×××’的人也喜欢”，和右侧的“以下豆列推荐”、“谁读这本书？”。因而发现了更多的我喜欢的书。
现在豆瓣的首页没了，每天打开，看到的总是友邻又干了什么。我对友邻做了什么，只有一点了解的兴趣，我可不想一打开豆瓣就是“我的友邻广播”。但没有办法，杨勃要弄成这样，我又没有多大选择的余地。像我这种怀旧的人，想看过去的首页推荐也看不到了。改版的那四个广场，偏偏我就找不到一个我想去的。
我只希望，豆瓣，能不能给我这种恋旧的人一个选择的权利？我可以继续用过去的那个豆瓣？首页的推荐还是保留着？你可以改变，可以创新，但是，你为什么就要强迫着我们这些恋旧的人把过去的全部放弃，来接受这个新的豆瓣，连保留过去的权利也没有？你可知道，在这个新的豆瓣中，我找不到我要去的广场。我知道你是想为大家好，但那只是你想，而事实上，你那样做，我认为是更糟糕了。
豆瓣在改变，而我又太恋旧。豆瓣有错吗？豆瓣不过是杨勃的豆瓣，我不过是一个不起眼的用户，我的观点又能有什么用呢？用豆瓣这么久了，我还是喜欢用豆瓣收藏我想看到书，从那里去找书。但我真的不喜欢现在的豆瓣，我恋旧。豆瓣变了，但它不是我的豆瓣，它没有必要对我忠诚。它可以对我说，“你不喜欢现在的我？那你走吧。”我能说什么呢？是的，它没有必要对我忠诚，也无所谓背叛。这一切不过是我的一厢情愿罢了。豆瓣从来都没有把我当回事，虽然我曾经那么地喜欢豆瓣。
我现在还是每天上豆瓣，但我每次上豆瓣都很不爽。我不知道，哪天，我会不会离开豆瓣，离开这个我曾经这么喜欢的豆瓣？如果有那一天，那我是不是在背叛我自己呢？背叛我曾经喜欢的豆瓣呢？还是，是因为豆瓣背叛了我我才背叛呢？
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy ( part 1)
Well, I have to get ready for my graduate thesis now.
At first, I would take some time to read books written by Peter Weill and some other authors about the relation between business and IT. I’d like to take the relation between business and IT as my graduate thesis. I hope in this area, I can find something interesting.
overview of the book
l chapter 2: introduce the first discipline for creating the foundation for execution: the operating model and its two key dimensions—business process standardization and integration. Four different types of operating models are described: Unification, Coordination, Replication, and Diversification.
l Chapter 3: introduce the second discipline for creating the foundation for execution: the enterprise architecture. The key elements—digitized business processes, IT infrastructure, shard data, and customer interfaces—are indentified and linked in the enterprise architecture. The one-page core diagram is introduced, and comparative diagrams are developed for each of the four operating models.
l Chapter 4: the four stages of enterprise architecture maturity: business silos, standardized technology, optimized core, and business modularity.
l Chapter 5: how companies get unique business benefits at each of the four stage s of maturity by using various management practices and roles. We explain how achieving these benefits require implementing different management mechanisms at each stage to formalize organizational learning.
l Chapter 6: The third discipline for creating the foundation for execution: the IT engagement model. The IT engagement model has three ingredients; IT governance, project management, and linkages connecting the two. A good engagement model enables a company to build its foundation one project at a time.
l How outsourcing can contribute to enterprise architecture maturity but warn that outsourcing success is far from guaranteed. To improve the likelihood of success, we show how to use the operating model and enterprise architecture to determine what and when to outsource. We distinguish between three different types of outsourcing—strategic partnerships, co-sourcing alliances, and transaction relationships.
l Chapter 8: make the urgent case for increased agility in companies that must compete in a global economy.
l Chapter 9: summarizes the key ideas in the book with a review of the symptoms of an ineffective foundation for execution. We follow with a set of six steps for rethinking your foundation for execution. Then we provide ten leadership principles for building and leveraging a foundation for execution.
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