I am sure that if you have been reading through my blogs for a little while now you would know how, more and more, I am relying on my MacBook Pro to carry out my daily job rather than whatever else I have been using in the past. I know that for plenty of folks out there this wouldn’t be really any piece of news, but, believe me, to me it surely is. And very good ones!

I could talk about the many, many things I am thoroughly enjoying over the last few weeks. I could talk about the excellence on the multimedia components. I could talk about the really good quality of different Mac apps. I could talk about the incredible community of folks who share their passion about the Mac day in day out. And the list goes on and on and on. Yes, I know, I guess I could talk about that, yet, I am not going to. Instead, I am just going to share with you all why today is going to be a light blogging day and why every day I am becoming more and more a Mac fanboy:

4 Windows crashes, 4 Windows reboots, three of my most frequently used Windows applications out of order and still not knowing what is going on with them. Complete waste of productivity for the day… Enough said!

Yes, folks, I never thought I would be saying this, but I am becoming a Mac fanboy. Just wished that would have happened quite some time ago. So many frustrations would have been just a thing of the past. Sigh

(Stay tuned, because, as a follow up, I am writing up a blog post where I am sharing how this MacBook Pro is helping me improve my own overall social software experience, both inside and outside of the corporate firewall. Who would have thought about that, right?, just a few months back, eh? :-D)

Tags: Mac, Apple, MacBook Pro, MBP, Windows, Notebook, Lenovo 3000 N100, Fanboy, Productivity, Tools, Productivity Tools, Reboot, Crash

It’s Friday!! My brain toasted. Completely shattered. It’s been a long long exciting week with far too much happening and still digesting some more of it. But not to worry, I shall be sharing some of the stuff as time goes by.

Was just thinking about creating the daily weblog post over here, as usual, but in the end decided to just be your YouTube pimp for the day, once again, and leave you with another superb video clip from the Did You Know series.

Did You Know 2.0:

Yes, indeed, another very enlightening video clip, don’t you think? With plenty of food for thought to discuss further, I am sure, but right now I feel like the weekend is just around the corner, waiting for me, so I better get ready and grab it, before it leaves me behind …

Have a good one everyone!

Tags: Life, Changing World, Work Life Balance, WLB, YouTube, 21st Century, Future, Reality, Now!, Globalisation, Jobs, Learning, Connected, Connections, Technology, Shift Happens, Conversations

Tags: Announcements, Fun Stuff, Humour, Globalisation

Well, not really. I mean, I was supposed to. A huge announcement, actually. Today. But when things need to happen in a certain way they do regardless, don’t they? In the last few days I have been twittering and sharing messages in my Facebook accont about this particular announcement and how I was planning on letting it out today, but alas, at the very last minute globalisation takes place, the news need to spread further first, before I can let them go out myself. Yes, I know. It happens sometimes.

But not to worry, that big announcement I will be sharing in my blogs will eventually be taking place beginning of next week. So stay tuned, because it is going to be way cool! Yes, indeed, just as cool as this one:

(Not to worry, it will not be just as hilarious as this one above! heh)

Hummm … Well, you may need to think about it twice. It is Friday, the weekend is just around the corner and you would probably be much better off reading something light to get you going, right? Well, here it is. In an era where plenty of people think that Knowledge Management is a discipline that was put together a few decades ago, here is something that clearly shows quite the opposite: KM has been with us for a long while and will continue to be so, whether we like it or not. And here is a living proof of it, dating from about 5,000 years ago! Yes, you read it right: 5,000 years!!

But before I get to share it, I just want to thank Kirti Kapoor, one of the active members from the ITtoolbox nextwork, for sending me an e-mail with the actual slide deck I am about to share on the subject. I asked her if she would be willing to share it in Slideshare, so that everyone would benefit from it, and she right away agreed with it. Way cool!

I could probably say a lot of things about the presentation itself, but, like I said at the beginning of the blog post, I am going to keep it short and just challenge you to see if you can identify some of the main key KM principles that transpire throughout the slide deck. You would be amazed about how much KM was applied a few thousand years ago with this particular Lessons on Strategy from The Mahabharata:

Have a good weekend, everyone! (Oh, and I am writing this particular weblog post while attending remotely the speaker session from Stephen Collins at the Office 2.0 event on "Knowledge Worker 2.0"! Can it get better than this?)

(Thanks much, Kirti, for sharing the slide deck with us! Greatly appreciated to be shown there is no need to reinvent the wheel )

Tags: Knowledge Management, KM, Knowledge Sharing, KM Strategy, Strategy, Mahabharata, Kirti Kapoor, Teamwork, Commitment, Competence, Cooperation, Collaboration, Knwoledge Management 2.0, KM 2.0, Stephen Collins, Acidlabs, Office 2.0

Tags: Barcelona, Cancellations, Holiday, Twitter, Baloncesto, Basketball, Basket, Eurobasket2007, Eurobasket07, Championships, Warriors, Crown, Spain

You would remember how a couple of weeks back I mentioned that this coming Wednesday I was planning to take some vacation and head over to Barcelona, hoping to be able to meet up with a few folks who I have met in real life or on line in the past. Alas, I am afraid that I will have to wait for another opportunity, because over the course of last week a personal emergency has kicked in and shifted around all of the different plans and priorities. So much so, that earlier on this morning I cancelled the hotel reservations and had to postpone the holidays for a later time. Yes, I know. A bummer.

I cannot talk much about that particular personal emergency, other than mentioning that things are going all right, although with a slow recovery process (Don’t worry, it is not me), but I am hoping that once it is all over I may be able to share something over here on the kind of impact this experience has been having on all of us over here. Stay tuned for some more.

I am not sure when I would be able to make it to Barcelona again, but I am hoping that perhaps some time in October or thereabouts I would have the opportunity, so if you would still be around by that time I will let you know, just in case. For those folks who contacted me to get together, I have been twittering the main cause of it and know you would understand why I had to cancel it. I am hoping though we would be able to meet up at some other point in time and catch up. Thanks for sticking in and for all of your understanding

So, I am not going to go to Barcelona after all, and I surely was looking forward to it. What can I do in the mean time to console myself? Well, I may have just found it. I do know that this is completely off topic, like it was exactly a year ago, but I just couldn’t help mention, even if it is just briefly, how over the next few days I shall be enjoying one of my other passions in life: basketball (Or like a well known wise man would say — BA - LON - CES - TO!!!).

And all of it because of this particular event that got started today and, of course, because of these guys:

Pictures courtesy of Kaplan DF

Our warriors!

(Good luck to everyone and let’s play!!)

That is exactly what I had earlier on this week when, thanks to Kellypuffs, I bumped into this particular video clip from YouTube:

There is just not much more than I can say about it, is it?, other than it is these little things we keep bumping into every now and then that make it all very worth while, don’t you think?

Very touching, moving, adorable. Priceless!

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Plus it is now Friday, getting ready for the weekend and just found out earlier on today that I am about to exceed the monthly bandwidth from elsua.net, so need to take care of it as we speak. You may expect a few hours of down time while I get it all sorted out. But I guess that is what it takes to be popular, right?, although nothing to compare with Conny and her over 7 million hits and counting!

Have a good one everyone!

Tags: Conny, YouTube, Video, Life, Wizard of Oz, Somewhere over the Rainbow, Precious Moments, Talent, Kellypuffs, Goose Bumps