Public Speaking – How I Prepare Every Time

In the past several weeks, I’ve been asked quite a lot about public speaking.

While downing gin tonics over Brazilian BBQ at the SXSW Interactive tech conference, I was approached by the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of a start-up I advise.

She pulled me aside to ask primarily two questions:

1. Where can I learn about the right social media tools to use?
2. What books should I read to learn how to get good at public speaking?

Here were my answers….

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Cassandra

Apache Cassandra an alternative for RDBMS. Something to think on...

Good Point On Approach

I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die - Ted Dziuba

I want to fly that thing!

Google vs. China

f Google will win China, Corporations will lead Governments.
I think that it is the beginning of an end.

To be continued...

Супер :)

xxx: мля... я наконец отчетливо понял разницу между инженером и программистом
xxx: Инженер сначала продумает чертеж, учтет все на бумаге, а потом соберет корабль. Прораммист сначала наделает переборки, движки, каюты, пластины корпуса, а потом будет долго ебать мозг как эту груду металлолома собрать в корабль и чтоб оно хотя бы не потонуло через 10 секунд после спуска на воду.

http://bash.org.ru/quote/406133

Krylov: Swan, Pike and Crawfish

When partners can't agree

Their dealings come to naught
And trouble is their labor's only fruit.

____________

Once Crawfish, Swan and Pike
Set out to pull a loaded cart,
And all together settled in the traces;
They pulled with all their might, but still the cart refused to budge!
The load it seemed was not too much for them:
Yet Crawfish scrambled backwards,
Swan strained up skywards, Pike pulled toward the sea.
Who's guilty here and who is right is
not for us to say-
But anyway the cart's still there today.

Nice Quotes

The past is history. The future is a mystery and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called 'the present'.

Sweet Misery A Poisoned World

Истинное лицо правительств/The true face of governments

Правительство Германии отказалось вводить налог на фастфуд

Министр по защите прав потребителей Ильза Айгнер (Ilse Aigner) назвала требование введения налога на фастфуд "чистым популизмом", отметив, что вопрос здорового питания - личное дело каждого. Как отметила Айгнер, производители со своей стороны должны лишь предоставлять потребителям исчерпывающую информацию о продукте.

Вот и выходит, что правительствам наплевать на то что ест их народ. То есть, здоровье нации, правительства не волнует. Бизнес рулит... Гавно выпускают, ну ничего пусть выпускают, просто для приличия пусть напишут что это гавно. A то что у людей другой альтернативы нет как жрать гавно никого не волнует. И дело тут вовсе не в водить налог или нет, а в подходе к вопросу...

Federal government rejects taxation on unhealthy food

Aigner said that it considered claims as a tax on fast food for "pure populism." Good nutrition is a question of personal attitude, rethinking always begin in the head. Every man must decide for themselves what was for him the best. "But we give consumers all the information to feed themselves conscious, healthy and balanced," said the minister of the "image".

So it turns out that governments do not care about what their people eat. I.e. the health of the nation is not a concern for governments. Business rules... They produce shit, well that's OK, just for the form's sake let them write that it is shit. But the fact that there is no alternative for people other than produced shit, no body cares. This is not about to put tax or not, but the approach to the issue...

МЫ ПОСТРОИМ ВЕЛИКУЮ ЕВРЕЙСКУЮ ИМПЕРИЮ!

«Все главные ценности человечество получило через евреев. Именно через нас Бог дал гоям (неевреям) высшие истины, - говорит раввин Авраам Шмулевич (бывший Никита Демин из Санкт-Петербурга). - Все знают, что евреи - избранный народ, но избранный для чего? Для того, чтобы задать золотые стандарты всему человечеству».

Мы сидим на кухне и мирно пьем кофе, и я узнаю, из чего соткана душа иудейского племени. Раввин Шмулевич - чрезвычайно харизматичный персонаж, и я легко поддаюсь магии его красноречия. Этот «гиперсионист» (как он сам себя называет) и лидер израильского движения «За Родину!» рисует мне величественную картину будущей еврейской империи, которая привольно раскинется от Нила до Евфрата. «Мы возьмем кусочек Египта, территории Ливана, Сирии, часть территории Ирака и отщипнем от Кувейта - это и есть земля, данная Богом Еврейскому народу, - говорит раввин Шмулевич, показывая мне карту будущей Еврейской империи. - Кнутом мы освободим нашу землю, а живущим на ней народам предложим выбор: либо умереть, либо жить по нашим правилам. Если вы будете делать «Кассамы», мы вас убьем, если хотите служить в израильской армии, милости просим». - «Идея понятна: вы хотите быть мозгом, остальные - руками. Но как посмотрит мировая общественность на такой, мягко говоря, разбой?» - «А никак. Международный закон - это право сильного. Законы используют, чтобы навязать свою волю. У кого есть сила, те на них плюют». - «Но на этой территории проживают 250 миллионов человек и всего шесть миллионов евреев». - «А сколько было греков, когда они создали свою империю от Греции до Средней Азии и Индии? Много меньше, чем евреев. Что сделал Александр Македонский? Он собрал всю элиту и отрубил им головы. Потом взял местных мальчиков-юношей и зачислил их в свою гвардию. Те, кто согласился принять греческую культуру, получили равные с греками права, и эллинизм распространился на всю территорию. Когда Израиль возьмет под свой контроль пространство Ближнего Востока, он произведет зачистку по методу Александра Македонского, несогласных истребят, а покоренные народы включатся в имперскую систему».

«Чем же вы тогда отличаетесь от Гитлера и Сталина?» - спрашиваю я. «Ну не надо приводить примеры перегибов. Идея империи привлекательна своей стабильностью и обещанием процветания». - «Но история нас учит, что все империи рано или поздно терпят крах». - «Ничего, лет восемьсот нам хватит. Потом настанет конец света, и уже будет не до того». - «Когда, по-вашему, придет час Израильской империи?» - «При той скорости, с которой происходят события, - через 10 - 15 лет. Когда система входит в воронку, любое действие только ухудшает ситуацию. Нынешняя война ничем не закончится. Израиль планирует уничтожить ХАМАС и посадить на его место «Фатх». Сначала в Газу войдет египетская армия (об этом уже идут переговоры), а вместе с ней отряды «Фатха». Это приведет к гражданской войне. Но Египет боится брать под контроль Газу. Главная проблема режима Мубарака - организация «Братья-мусульмане». Вся египетская молодежь, которая смотрит сейчас по телевизору Газу, поддерживает ХАМАС, а значит, радикализация Египта неминуема. Режим Мубарака падет. Хаос в Египте выплеснется рано или поздно на Саудовскую Аравию, где вспыхнет шиитское восстание. Вечные разборки: шииты и сунниты. Американцы уйдут из Ирака, и правительство не удержится. Запылает весь регион, вспыхнет мусульманская Европа. В этой ситуации Израилю придется брать ответственность на себя».

«Объясните: почему в любой стране мира евреи - самые ярые либералы, но только не у себя дома, в Израиле?» - «Либерализм был методом выживания евреев под чужим господством, а борьба за права человека - еврейская защитная реакция. Вспомните, как было в России до 1917 года? Евреям нельзя было владеть землей, они жили за чертой оседлости, они не могли поступить в университет, если не крестились. Почему среди коммунистов было столько иудеев? Марксизм обещал решить национальный вопрос. И люди, которые страдали тысячу лет от дискриминации, начали бороться. Отменим все нации, отныне все люди равны! Если человечество не позволит евреям жить на своей земле, оно получит повсюду еврейский либерализм». «Звучит как шантаж. Евреи уже получили свое государство, однако власть еврейского либерализма не уменьшилась», - замечаю я. «Потому что евреи выиграли в честном конкурсе идей. Согласитесь: приятнее жить в либеральном обществе, чем в феодальном. Когда-то сионизм ставил узкую задачу для иудеев - отсидеться в бомбоубежище под названием Израиль. Но время пришло: евреи должны вернуться к своей исторической миссии. Оркестру нужен дирижер. Мы - программное обеспечение человечества, которое тысячелетиями пользуется еврейскими идеями. Другие народы исчезли, а мы почему-то существуем. Есть такой анекдот. Были египтяне и евреи: египтяне вымерли, евреи остались. Были вавилоняне и евреи: вавилоняне вымерли, евреи остались. Были римляне и евреи: римляне исчезли, евреи выжили. Были инквизиторы и евреи, и где теперь те инквизиторы? Были нацисты и евреи: нацистов повесили, евреи выжили. Были коммунисты и евреи: коммунисты сгинули, евреи остались. Что в итоге? Евреи вышли в финал».

Source:

Part1: http://www.kp.ru/print/article/24236.5/436406

Part2: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24237/437014/

ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)

Beautiful presentation...

ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)

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Unfortunately... Very realistic...

The Fable of the Ducks and the Hens

(George Lincoln Rockwell)

Many, many years ago

When animals could speak,

A wondrous thing the ducks befell;

Their tale is quite unique.

Down by a pond dwelt all these ducks

Ten thousand at the least

Their duckish joys were undisturbed

By any man or beast.

One day down near the entrance gate

There was an awful din

A hundred hens all out of breath

Were begging to come in.

"Oh let us in" these poor birds cried

"Before we do expire!

'Tis only by the merest inch

That we escaped the fire!"

Their feathers burned, their combs adroop

They were the saddest sight.

They'd run a hundred miles or more,

All day and then all night.

"Come in! Come in!" the ducks all quacked,

"For you our hearts do bleed!

We'll share our happy lot with you;

Just tell us what you need!"

And so these poor bedraggled hens

Amongst the ducks moved in.

"For after all," the ducks declared,

"We're sisters 'neath the skin."

Before too many months had lapsed,

The hens were good as new.

They sent for all their rooster friends,

And those were welcomed too.

To please their hosts, these chickens tried

To waddle and to quack.

To imitate the duckish ways,

They quickly learned the knack.

This pleased the flock of ducks because

It gratified their pride.

But hear my tale and learn how they

Got taken for a ride.

The ducks, it seemed, spent all their time

In fixing up the place,

In growing food and building homes

And cleaning every space.

They asked the hens what they would do

To earn their daily bread.

"We'll teach and write and entertain

And buy and sell," they said.

And so these hens began to teach

The baby ducks and chicks.

They traded food and eggs and things,

With many clever tricks.

They wrote great books and put on shows

Of genius they'd no lack.

It wasn't long till chickens owned

The Duckville Daily Quack.

One day a mother duck who took

Her ducklings to the lake,

Was flabbergasted when one said,

"A swim I will not take!"

"Why duckling's always swim" she gasped,

"It's what you're built to do!

Like bunnies hop, and crickets chirp,

And cows most always moo!"

"You're nuts!" her son replied,

"That stuff is all old hat!

It's wrong for birds to swim, besides

It's damn cold on my prat!"

"Oh fie!" the mother duck exclaimed,

"You're talking like a fool!"

Up quacked the other ducklings then:

"He's right! We learned in school!"

"Such talk must stop!" the mother cried,

"Those hens can't tell such lies!

For sheer ingratitude and nerve,

I'm sure this takes the prize!"

But she was wrong, for even then

The hens did thump the tub

Demanding they be let into

The Duckville Swimming Club.

"But you don't swim!" the ducks exclaimed,

"To join, why should you care?"

"That's not the point" the hens replied,

"To exclude us isn't fair!"

The younger ducks, who'd been to school

Agreed right there and then:

"To keep them out is bigotry!

'Twould just be anti-hen!"

Outnumbered by the younger ducks,

The old ducks soon did lose.

The hens could join the Swimming Club,

If they would pay the dues.

That night the Duckville Daily Quack

Contained this banner spread:

"REACTIONARY DUCKS ARE LICKED!

DUCKVILLE MOVES AHEAD!"

Down at the Duckville Gaity,

The young set laughed with glee,

At cracks about "old fuddy ducks"

In burlesque repartee.

Next day the hens were at the Club;

A petition they'd sent round

They objected to the Swimming Fund

With fury and with sound.

"You use our dues to fix the pond,

To keep it neat and trim

And this is wrong" they said, "because

You know we do not swim!"

"God help us!" exclaimed a wise old duck,

"Those chickens have gone mad!

We'll take this thing to court, by George!

And justice will be had!"

But when they went before the judge,

Imagine their dismay!

A chicken judge decreed that they

A heavy fine must pay!

"Minorities must have their rights!"

The judge declared right then

"To use hens' dues to fix the pond

Is very anti-hen!"

Once more the Duckville Daily Quack

Emblazoned 'cross the page:

"OLD FUDDY DUCKS REFUSE TO SEE

THE GREAT NEW COMING AGE!"

In Duckville's church, on Sunday morn

The preacher spoke these words:

"Discrimination's got to stop!

Remember, we're all birds!"

The wisest duck in all the town

Sat down in black despair

"I'll write a book," he thought, "and then

This madness I will bare!"

"Let swimmers swim, let hoppers hop,

Let each go his own way

Let none coerce a fellow bird!"

Was what he had to say.

"'Twas wrong to force the hens to swim,

So here's the problem's crux:

It's just as bad for hens to try

To chickenize our ducks!"

"I can't print that" the printer said

"'Twill put me in a mess!

My shop is mortgaged to the hens

The chickens own my press!"

This worried duck then tried to warn

His friends by speech and pen,

But young ducks fresh from school just jeered,

"He's a vicious anti-hen!"

Now up the stream a little way

Was Gooseville, on the lake

The hens had come to Gooseville too,

But the geese were more awake.

When the hens began to spoil the young

And Gooseville's laws to flout,

The geese rose up in righteous wrath

And simply threw them out.

Of course you know where they all ran;

On Duckville they converged

"We've got to take these refugees"

Was what the ducks all urged.

The Duckville Daily Quack declared:

"Those geese will stop at naught!

They plan to conquer all the world!

Atrocities they've wrought!"

"That's right!" the young ducks all agreed,

"We'll help our fellow birds!

Those geese have plans to conquer us!

We've read the Quack's own words!"

They let the hens from Gooseville in,

The whole bedraggled pack

And every hen took up a job

On Duckville's Daily Quack.

When Duckville's Mayor's term was up,

The Quack put up its duck;

A vain and stupid duck he was,

A veritable cluck!

But when he praised the wild young ducks

And cursed the evil geese,

The Quack declared he was "all-wise"

His praise would never cease.

The hens chipped in to help this cluck

Give grain away for free

The old ducks sadly shook their heads,

The writing they could see.

And sure enough, this stupid duck,

He was elected Mayor

From this point on, the Duckville ducks,

They never had a prayer.

The Mayor said, "Gooseville must go!

We'll wipe them off the map!"

While Duckville slept, the scheming hens

For Gooseville set a trap.

They called the geese by filthy names;

They filled their pond with sticks

They helped the weasels catch the geese,

And other hennish tricks.

The geese got mad and threw some rocks,

"IT'S WAR!" the Quack announced:

"We ducks must fight those evil geese

Till they've been soundly trounced!"

The ducks (who knew not of the tricks

Indulged in by the Mayor)

Were filled with patriotic zeal,

And pitched right in for fair.

Now when the ducks had whipped the geese

The Mayor called "Retreat!

Our Henville friends should really take

Goosevilles's big main street!"

The hens are back in Gooseville now;

They starved and beat the geese

They prayed for peace but organized

The Henville Armed Police.

They drained the Gooseville swimming pond;

And 'De-goose-ified' the schools,

They wrung the neck of Gooseville's Mayor

On lately made up rules.

They formed a council of the hens,

'United Birds' the name

The other birds who joined the thing

Did not perceive their game.

No sooner had they set this up,

Than they announced their plan

To seize up Swanville as a home

For all their hennish clan.

They took a vote amongst the hens,

And every one approved!

"Swanville was for hens!" they said,

"Way back, before we moved."

And so they kicked the swans all out

With Duckville's help and power

And Duckville could not understand

Why swans on them turned sour.

By this time, Duckville was a mess;

The young ducks had gone mad

They stole and laughed at truth and law

They'd gone completely bad.

The hens were selling loco weed

In every nasty den

But ducks who dared to mention this

Were labelled 'anti-hen.'

The hens all preached of 'Tolerance';

They invoked the 'Golden Rule'

But they subsidized the indigent,

The greedy and the fool.

At last the very dumbest ducks

Began to smell a rat

"This Mayor is no good" they cried

"And we will soon fix that!"

But the hens had planned for even this

A candidate they had,

Whom even wise old ducks believed

Just never could be bad.

This hen-tool duck had whipped the geese;

A soldier duck was he

Although the hens had set him up,

The ducks all thought him free.

This hen-tool got elected,

Through ignorance and greed,

Through hennish lies in press and speech

And bribes of 'chicken feed.'

The hens now kicked the ducks around,

Without a blush of shame

Until the Mayor ran the town

In nothing else but name.

They pumped the swimming pond all dry;

They taught the ducks to crow

While duckish numbers dwindled,

The hens began to grow.

The hens stirred up the happy crows

From out the piney wood

To fight and mix and marry ducks

In the name of 'Brotherhood.'

Things got so bad that fifty ducks

Who knew of days gone by,

Took up their wives and children

And decided that they'd fly.

They flew through storm and tempest;

They froze, and many died

But on they drove, until at last

A lovely lake they spied.

They settled down exhausted,

But soon went straight to work

To build and clear and cultivate,

No danger did they shirk.

Now after many years of toil,

This little band had grown

The fields around were full of grain

From seeds that they had sown.

The first ducks now were long since dead;

Their struggles long had ceased

Through hard work and through suffering

Their joys had been increased.

One day down near the entrance gate

There was an awful din

A hundred hens, all out of breath,

Were begging to come in.

"Oh, let us in!" the poor birds cried,

"Before we do expire!

'Tis only by the merest inch..."

This epic really has no end because

No matter how you fight 'em,

Those hens will show up every time

And so... ad infinitum.

Lenta.ru: Ближний Восток: Глава Минюста Израиля предложил ввести суд Торы

Lenta.ru: Ближний Восток: Глава Минюста Израиля предложил ввести суд Торы

Мы плыли плыли и приплыли...

Ежик в тумане - Хром в тумане :)

Начиная, помоему с третей версии Хрома, в нем поддерживаются темы. Пока этот механизм не очень продвинут, как всегда в стиле Google - поддержка минималистичная. Например нет прозрачности окна и т.д. Вообщем, это все не важно...

Вот случайно набрел на тему посвященную знаменитому мультфильму "Ежик в тумане" :)

Прикольно :)

Open Source is evil. And not only Open source..

While surfing the news and beyond, faced the Loosing my religion blog post of Chris Messina. Nice post and right to the point. Even more, the same principle is reflected in all other areas, not only Open Source.

Tacitus on this: "In pace consulares, in bello imperatores, in periculo dictatores". English would sound like: President in peace time, General in war time, Dictator in danger time.

Car steer can be given to all if car accident is needed...

AIDS Dilemma

Interesting guy: http://www.duesberg.com/

Abstract:

Almost two decades of unprecedented efforts in research costing US taxpayers over $50 billion have failed to defeat Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and have failed to explain the chronology and epidemiology of AIDS in America and Europe. The failure to cure AIDS is so complete that the largest American AIDS foundation is even exploiting it for fundraising: 'Latest AIDS statistics 0,000,000 cured. Support a cure, support AMFAR.' The scientific basis of all these unsuccessful efforts has been the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by a sexually transmitted virus, termed Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and that this viral immunodeficiency manifests in 30 previously known microbial and non-microbial AIDS diseases.

In order to develop a hypothesis that explains AIDS we have considered ten relevant facts that American and European AIDS patients have, and do not have, in common:

1. AIDS is not contagious. For example, not even one health care worker has contracted AIDS from over 800,000 AIDS patients in America and Europe.
2. AIDS is highly non-random with regard to sex (86% male); sexual persuasion (over 60% homosexual); and age (85% are 25-49 years old).
3. From its beginning in 1980, the AIDS epidemic progressed non-exponentially, just like lifestyle diseases.
4. The epidemic is fragmented into distinct subepidemics with exclusive AIDS-defining diseases. For example, only homosexual males have Kaposi's sarcoma.
5. Patients do not have any one of 30 AIDS-defining diseases, nor even immunodeficiency, in common. For example, Kaposi's sarcoma, dementia, and weight loss may occur without immunodeficiency. Thus, there is no AIDS-specific disease.
6. AIDS patients have antibody against HIV in common only by definition-not by natural coincidence. AIDS-defining diseases of HIV-free patients are called by their old names.
7. Recreational drug use is a common denominator for over 95% of all American and European AIDS patients, including male homosexuals.
8. Lifetime prescriptions of inevitably toxic anti-HIV drugs, such as the DNA chain-terminator AZT, are another common denominator of AIDS patients.
9. HIV proves to be an ideal surrogate marker for recreational and anti-HIV drug use. Since the virus is very rare (<>
10. The huge AIDS literature cannot offer even one statistically significant group of drug-free AIDS patients from America and Europe.

In view of this, we propose that the long-term consumption of recreational drugs (such as cocaine, heroin, nitrite inhalants, and amphetamines) and prescriptions of DNA chain-terminating and other anti-HIV drugs, cause all AIDS diseases in America and Europe that exceed their long-established, national backgrounds, i.e. >95%. Chemically distinct drugs cause distinct AIDS-defining diseases; for example, nitrite inhalants cause Kaposi's sarcoma, cocaine causes weight loss, and AZT causes immunodeficiency, lymphoma, muscle atrophy, and dementia. The drug hypothesis predicts that AIDS:

1. is non-contagious;
2. is non-random, because 85% of AIDS causing drugs are used by males, particularly sexually active homosexuals between 25 and 49 years of age, and
3. would follow the drug epidemics chronologically.

Indeed, AIDS has increased from negligible numbers in the early 1980s to about 80,000 annual cases in the early '90s and has since declined to about 50,000 cases (US figures). In the same period, recreational drug users have increased from negligible numbers to millions by the late 1980s, and have since decreased possibly twofold. However, AIDS has declined less because since 1987 increasing numbers of mostly healthy, HIV-positive people, currently about 200,000, use anti-HIV drugs that cause AIDS and other diseases. At least 64 scientific studies, government legislation, and non-scientific reports document that recreational drugs cause AIDS and other diseases. Likewise, the AIDS literature, the drug manufacturers, and non-scientific reports confirm that anti-HIV drugs cause AIDS and other diseases in humans and animals. In sum, the AIDS dilemma could be solved by banning anti-HIV drugs, and by pointing out that drugs cause AIDS –modeled on the successful anti-smoking campaign.

Mandatory vaccination...

If they think that vaccination is so necessary and will "save the world", why even medics are scared?

On the other hand they are vaccinating newly born children on mandatory basis. But the medics are still scared...

Наука - Science :)

Американские ученые обнаружили, что морские свинки размножаются гораздо быстрее если им не мешают американские ученые...

American scientists found that guinea pigs are multiplying much faster if american scientists don't prevent them...

Перезд...

Супер фраза :)

"...советские люди поверили западной пропаганде, продали СССР, собрали вещички едут, значит, в "светлое капиталистическое будущее"; приезжают, - а там везде решётки; возвращаются назад, а там пепелище и надпись на иврите "частная собственность"..."