Arquivos » Janeiro, 2007

Your future PageRank

All of you that worship Google’s PageRank might be interested in using this tool that predicts your site’s future Pagerank (no comments about its reliability).
I got this info from JohnTP, that is now PR6 (in case you’re clueless, it’s a good thing). Congratulations John.
The company that makes this tool available is iWebTool. I had already [...]

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You or the Product?

Should you adapt yourself to a new product? Or should it be the other way around?
Yesterday I posted about my first experience with a Gillette Fusion razor, and one of the comments I got was from Paulo Pires. He said that maybe I didn’t really like the new razor because first my skin needs to [...]

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Gillette Fusion: 1st impression

I was quite excited to finally try the new Gillette Fusion. I wondered if it could replace my loyal Mach 3 Turbo. Fortunately I was given a brand-new razor, so I could finally try it.
The first impression that I have about the new Gillette Fusion is that it does cut very well but it’s very [...]

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Gillette Fusion: The late arrival

This week Gillette launched its newest razor, Gillette Fusion, in Portugal (that’s my home country, in case you haven’t figured it out). It’s a product that brings out two new interesting features: 5 blades on the front and 1 extra blade on the back of the cartridge.

Since I start shaving I’ve been a great fan [...]

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Delegation - Addendum

Michael Wade has a great blog about management and related subjects and given his expertise I asked him to give us his view about Delegation. He was kind enough to leave a very precious comment.
His notes are a valuable addendum to my previous post about delegation and are important enough to be on a post [...]

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Delegation

A good professional knows that delegation is a required action in order to cope with the growing work duties and to climb faster in the career ladder.
Delegation is the handing of a task over to another person. But what is the criteria to choose a task for delegation?
One might be led to think that you [...]

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Encrypt an Excel file

If you’re like most people you probably use an Excel worksheet in order to store some of your passwords. To add some security to that file we can encrypt it, using a simple built-in functionality.
Open your Excel file. Then go to File->Save as.
Then, on the top right label Tools, select General Options.

Click Advanced and then [...]

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Flashdance

A friend of mine sent me a very funny email and I asked him if he could write a post about it, so here it goes. BTW, he identifies himself as The I-don’t-dance-just-drink guy :).

I would like to dedicate this comic to all men who like me suffered from the “dancing pressure” from their female [...]

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Starting the engines

Intellectual work has a great problem: you must be really focused and motivated in order to start producing anything good.
Everyday I face different challenges and that’s great, because it makes the work less boring and helps me grow as an individual - both professionally and personally. On the down side, most of the time I’m [...]

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Quick CSS Mockups

With the proliferation of Web 2.0 sites, one of the involved tasks is the creation of a buzz page, that does [almost] nothing expect being one of the first step of the site’s promotion strategy - which is, indeed, quite important.
Those buzz/announcement pages should be quick to create, pretty and, if possible, XHTML compliant.
Quick and [...]

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