Whatever: Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don't Want to Work at Writing

Site: Whatever
Post: Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don't Want to Work at Writing

John Scalzi gives several writing tips that are simple and straight forward. I think I will try out a few of these tips.

Motley Fool: I Turned $3,000 Into $210,000

Site: Motley Fool
Post: I Turned $3,000 Into $210,000

It is the story of one investor who held on some stock a little to long and the lessons she learning. I think I will need to educate myself a little bit more before jumping into the market.

dmh2000: C++ vs Java vs Python vs Ruby : a first impression

Site: dmh2000
Post: C++ vs Java vs Python vs Ruby : a first impression

I found the posting to be a semi interesting. Since I don't have a lot of experience with any of these languages, I was hoping for a bit more of a comparison and little direction on which language I should be learning.

Poynter Online: Fifty Writing Tools

Site: Poynter Online
Post: Fifty Writing Tools

The posting has more then 50 writting tools. This posting reminds me of the book 'Elements of Style.'

Free Software For Windows

Update 2006.02.21
Still looking for more freeware? Checkout 'Neowin's Freeware Alternative List.'

Update - 2006.01.25
Today I found another list of Freeware software. The list has several categories:

• 3D Graphics
• Anti-Virus
• Anti Spyware
• Audio Creation
• Audio Players
• Audio Tools
• CD/DVD Burning
• Compression / Decompression
• Defrag Software
• Desktop Enhancements
• Download managers
• Encryption and data security
• File Managers
• File repair and recovery
• Firewalls
• FTP Clients
• FTP Servers
• HTML Editors
• Image viewers
• Instant Messenger
• Internet Explorer Front-Ends
• IRC Clients
• Mail programs
• Anti-spam programs
• Network Tools
• Office Suite
• Partition Managers
• PDF Utilities
• Photo manipulation and image design
• Programming
• Pop-up Blockers
• RSS Readers
• System Information and monitoring
• Video codecs
• Video players
• Video tools
• Web browsers
• Web servers
• Webcam Software
• Checksum Utilities
• General Utilities And Other Applications

Original - 2005.10.06
Absolutely Free Software is a list of software that is available for Windows. The list is broken down into several major headings including:

• Free Office Applications
• Free Anti Virus Software / Security Software
• Free Internet / Network Software
• Free Graphic Software
• Free Mutlimedia Software
• Free Utilities-Essential
• Free Utilities-Useful
• Free Informational-Educational Software

I already use several of these tools.

Free education On The Internet

Free-ed.net has set a mission for itself "to deliver quality distance education at not cost to the user." There are no fees, no books to buy, no grades and no deadlines. I think I will have to give a couple of the courses a try in the near future. This may be a nice way to expand my knowledge into other disciplines without a large investment in books.

Near The Speed Of Light By The End Of The Century?!?

Physorg.com has an interesting article entitled 'Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation.' I wish the article had more details into Dr. Felber's theory. It will be interesting to see how this story develops over the next few years.

Webcasts/Podcasts From Berkeley

UC Berkeley has made a few of their classes available on-line as a webcast or as a podcast. I have added a few of the classes to my podcatching client.

Java Training

Since Monday I have been in a 5 day Java class. The class has covered a lot of material and I hope I can remember some of it on Monday next week. I still have another day worth of training to go. I am hoping to get back to a regular schedule this weekend.

Web Developer's Handbook

Wow. I came across the website the 'Web Developer's Handbook' which is a huge list of resources covering CSS, Color Tools, Web Tools, AJAX, DOM, Typography, Blogging, usability, Accessibility and SEO.

Amazing Tech Facts

The blog 'Amazing Tech facts' Trivia that gives you the Edge so has only one posting 'Amazing Tech-facts.' There are some interesting tidbits here. I am not sure how many are true and how many are urban legends.

Increase Your Reading Speed

For the last few months I have been looking into speed reading and starting to increase my reading speed. There are just too many books I want to read. Keith Drury's posting 'Speed-Reading Techniques' is a good summary of all the how to speed read material I have looked at.

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs

From Incompetech.com you can get 'Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs.' There are several different PDFs to choose from.

Free Management Library

I just love free. Check out the 'Free Management Library.' This on-line library has 675 topics to choose from. This looks like a great resource for learning about a management topic.

How To Win Friends And Influence People

Over at 'Notes of intelligence' there is a great summary of Dale Carnegie's book 'How to Win Friends & Influence People.' It takes about 5 minutes to read the summary. I am going to have to read the book now.

Print Your Own Ruler

For those times when you can't find your ruler, just print one out.

Some printable paper rulers [vendian.org]