December, 2007

Thankfully, they’re willing to share

You don’t need to make millions or billions to make a difference, simply do what you can to share positive energy. May the spirit of the season be with all! Much thanks to these celebs, and organizations; and to all others who do whatever they can to help continually make our world better. Thankfully, they’re willing to share. Tonight may everyone be able to sit back and chill, with friends or someone they love, to share a special moment and bring in the New Year with great joy. Love and Light Always, Cheers!

What the tech?

Viewed today on G4techTV (more info here): Cape Breton (NS) caller via Skype to TheLab, asked about Wi-Fi with Ubuntu challenge he was having; X-Play winner for best game of the year 2007 was BioShock. Accepting the award for the latter, the lead designer expressed that gamers are interested in thinking and in more than just blowing things up. For gamers and others out there (e.g., cast of The IT Crowd), here are a few things to perhaps think about: Will violent games and videos make a future world that is more violent? Will TV in future award IT Pros in many more categories and will this include various social responsibility awards given to those who in someway give positive energy towards a notion of continually making a better world? What the tech is next in a world interconnected by software, technology and information? Will it somehow help to improve the quality of life for all?

The power of positive energy

What is green, good for the environment, solves for issues and has the potential to give positive energy to many who view or encounter it?

See this site to learn more.

For years, air and other aspects of quality were not given great attention. Thankfully awareness of such things is increasing. As we move towards the future the power of positive energy will as well. When one or many encounter something that gives them a positive feeling, it raises the positive, and the potential for the positive to be shared and multiplied. The net effect can be far reaching and extremely good. Be part of a living wall of pros and the general public that beams intrinsic and pervasive value through all that interconnects thanks to software, technology and information. Share awareness of positive news and sites that in some way have the potential to help the world become continually better. Thank you for doing so.

Encounter back, to the future, electronic online educational resource

What do these have in common? Close Encounters of the Third Kind (an intelligent film in which a five-tone musical motif used for communication with aliens has become as quotable as any line of movie dialogue); Back to the Future (tells the tale of an accidental time-tourist who is stranded in the year 1955 and must find a way home as well as repair the space/time continuum and save his family from being erased from existence).

This December they were saved, in this electronic online educational resource, for the future. Even as many fill theatres to see new releases, few are aware that many films produced before 1950 (and the vast majority made before 1920) are lost forever. More info here and here.

Improve the quality of life for all

The world can increasingly become one and live in peace. Looking back (e.g., at Cat Stevens playing Peace Train live on his Earth Tour in 1976), and looking at the world today, it is essential all give positive energy to making important changes from various perspectives by 2020. Anything is positive, we just have to believe and act. Software, Technology and Information (and all connected) have tremendous potential to continually improve the quality of life for all. Thank you for all you do to help make things increasingly better.

Making important changes by 2020

“The pervasive notion among music users is that because it’s on the Internet, it should be free”

“specialty marketing isn’t a new idea … it was used generations ago by jeans manufacturers and soda pop companies like Coca Cola, which paid for the Guess Who and The Staccatos (later the Five Man Electrical Band) to record a platinum-selling promotional album in 1967.”

The above quotes are from this Dec 27, 2007 4:30 AM thestar.com post titled 2007 in Review: Music, Age of confusion. As shared on this page of foxytunes.com (which includes reference to the noted post), the Five Man Electrical Band was a Canadian rock group noted for songs like their 1972 hit “Signs”. Look within the noted page on foxytunes to the lyrics of another song —I’m a Stranger Here— by the same band. It may just make you wonder a bit more, about how much has changed over the years (since the 70’s for example), and whether things are getting better, and how much better we can make the world by working more as one to ensure important changes by 2020.

Pros and the general public

There are many stories that present need for change. Often they include a rough road before success is achieved. One example (mentioned in the news on this webpage) is a person who will live forever in the hearts of many for helping a nation better respect those within who spoke another language. From various perspectives, the future can be saved. Pros and the general public increasingly working as one can help to ensure it.

Who saved the future?

It may be we have been living, and for years yet still must live, within a modern day David versus Goliath storyline. In many ways however, IT Pros and the general public can rise to unimagined proportions to save the future. One example may relate to helping enable a future of automotive history that betters for all throughout the world; for a bit of very interesting background see this website. It is time for change in many ways. It is time for all peoples to increasingly contribute to shaping a better reality, and be among those who saved the future, a better future, for all.

It’s A Wonderful Life

Each of us can make a positive difference in the lives of others. Miracles can come from each of us. Believe. Help make it a wonderful life for all.

Good tidings of great joy

On this day it seems appropriate to give thanks and to share positive energy.

Merry Christmas

Feed the world

Help make Christmas and New Years better for all. Thank you for doing so. PS: Real quality is inherent and virtually invisible. Like the code behind a button that provides free food to those in need. And like the dream behind the video. If you arrived at this post from a direct link and do not see a video, click ‘VIEW ALL POSTS’ to see the video that is inherently part of this post. It was made in 1984, and will live forever. Working together we can end hunger, poverty, homelessness, war, and even corruption, while significantly reducing the cost of errors to the global economy, while significantly reducing concerns about global warming, and while increasingly enabling greater levels of trust, love, peace, joy and value-inherent (intrinsic and pervasive) into the steps of all that is associated with software, technology and information. The world is still evolving, and now we have a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to contribute to the positive evolution of our world and interconnected universe.

To achieve great things

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The words just read are those of Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747, moralist and essayist whose belief in the individual’s capacity for goodness played a part in the shift of opinion away from the pessimistic view of human nature). In the words there just may be some wisdom waiting to be unlocked by increasingly transforming or evolving important knowledge, such as perhaps evolving it increasingly from tacit to implicit. To enable the evolution perhaps things like increased sharing will help (e.g.). Perhaps too will extra bits of collaboration and imagination. For example, let’s imagine that your team recently embarked on a mission and set the related bar low, 30. Let’s imagine that your team managed to surpass the bar, achieving 32. Now imagine that your team set the bar higher, 55, and managed 40 or more in three quarters of the time. Your team might consider this a failure, i.e., something to learn from. The latter would be true; however, as each team member begins to look closer they will realize that it is possible to achieve even higher levels (e.g., 101 and up); in fact that it is indeed possible to raise the bar yet again, and then to inherently aim to surpass it. In fact looking closer each team member will eventually begin to see that it is possible to continually make quality more an innate part of the DNA of related processes, products, services, and resources. Each will begin to realize that eventually the team can achieve unimagined levels and depths of quality, value, excellence and simplicity. The results from productivity and other perspectives will in fact be far reaching and more so of benefit to all. The net message for this post is as follows. Set the bar high, and believe you can surpass it. You may achieve less than initially hoped, you may achieve more, but you will achieve more than originally seemed possible. To achieve great things: believe, keep optimistic magic in your heart, share positive energy and keep dreams alive by working smarter and giving dreams extra degrees of collaboration and imagination.   

Doing all we can

In the following quote, replace man with person, and he with they.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can — Drummond

Thanks Len for sharing the above quote. It just may be beneficial overall for each of us to pursue life with such being part of the mix. For example, in general, undertaking more than seems possible may move us all towards helping to ensure greater levels of inherent quality simplicity from one perspective or another in order to increasingly help make dreams or passions come true. Another aspect of the quote that some may enjoy is the connection to the thirteenth chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians; that is, to something written on the subject of love, and principally the love that all should have for everyone. On the light side, this was recently noticed and is shared now as it might come in handy for someone who needs a funny way to tell or show another that geeks are people too and that our passion comes first. For some of us, this may be connected to a piece of code, or a video game, or an IT initiative of some type that often takes precedence, however with all jokes aside about our geeks (or IT Pros) kind, it can be said that we are changing the world. Ideally in the process, we are doing our best to help spread love and continually make things better. Regardless of what or who one considers their divine source, it is important that unity and diversity become more one and that each of us are doing all we can to help grow love and innate joy as related to processes, products, services, resources, value and all that is intrinsically and pervasively related to doing all we can to make things better on the trek through the sea, sky and interconnected universe of the inherent technological way of life of ‘the cornerstone’ (quality).

Giving it the extra degree

Another inherent character trait of all IT Pros is giving it the extra degree. Play the video here as an example. Ideally you find it relevant or helpful. It is only shared for general awareness, and as a potential input that may help you or others when it is felt it is time for giving it the extra degree.

An inherent character trait of all IT Pros

Each of us must do our best. As example, we must do our best to matter more, to be indispensable, to work towards helping to provide intrinsic and pervasive value and goodness in all solutions, to strive to make each solution progressively better, and to mentor others to do similarly. We must give positive energy and believe that all can help to make the future increasingly brighter for all. We must believe all can be and will be lifted up to their highest, fullest and best. We must help all people to help themselves. Each of us must attempt to uplift and to inspire, by example, inference or suggestion. Each of us must help all to be radiant. BTW, thanks Zak and Len (at AYR) for sharing this link. Thanks also to B00M3R for your recent comment (attached to the prior post). It has been approved as it gets to the core. Hopefully it will generate a bit of discussion and take each of us more toward the edge. While it is possible to sing in good cheer of the accomplishments and best efforts of many IT Pros, and of many others since the beginning of time, we all must recognize that we are (as one world) a long way from evolving good to great. We each must therefore recognize that more must be done. We each must give our best (everyday) to contribute to making brighter futures for all. We each must believe we can increasingly come together and drive change towards a world that is continually better for all. To this juncture in the life of VIIP, several posts have received several comments from bloggers connected with WordPress. In each instance the comments shared positive mention and provided a link to the related post. While the comments were not added to VIIP, on this day for various reasons it seems appropriate to say thanks for all the positive mentions. And so, Thank You. Thanks also to WordPress and TechTarget for making blogging easy for anyone. Thanks also to TechTarget for today’s ITKE Community Update newsletter. Particularly enjoyed from within, was the following note from a friend of IT Knowledge Exchange…

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