Some thought on the article "Russia's Bid for Arctic Energy"

Russia and many countries want to prove sovereignty on North Pole because there are very rich natural resources including oil , natural gas and gold. In the world, who can own more natural resource mean who has more power. It would be more clear especially at this time that the price of oil is very high. At the same time, many alternative energies are developed in order to reduce the usage of oil.

A stupid thing happened to me today.

Hi all,

I wanna share one thing stupid I made today with you. That is, in great delight I took the new Advanced magazine I bought in KingStone book store to home, and was ready to read it immediately. But, to my surprise, I noticed that the month flag in this magaznie is marked as DECEMBER 2007!

The bad news is, I still don't have a magazine of Jan.

The good news is, I do have a magazine of Dec. 2007 eventually even though I couldn't find a one in the nearest book store around my house just one month ago.

A reading report supposed to be posted two weeks ago

Hi all,

Please forgive me being a such lazy boy. This article is supposed to be posted two weeks ago. Actually I did write half my report at that time, but I forgot to save it before a rebooting of my notebook. So.. now I'm trying to rewrite it from my recall memory.

The topic I chose that week is the news discussing Corcs shoes. After reading this article, I really have a good impression on Corcs shoes' comfort. As I told you, I am willing to do anything possible to build up a comfortable working enviornment. So, a pair of Corcs shoes has been marked as a must-by item in my buy list. I will definitely buy a new pair in the next time I happen to walk around a Corcs store, and then wear them in my office. I intend to use Corcs shoes to replace my casual slippers. After all, slippers are not decent at all in working place. I think it might be more unnoticable whiling I'm fooling around my office with Crocs shoes.

BTW, if you have any tips that can make you work more comfortably or refresh your mind while you're tired of your task at hand. Please share them to me. That would be much obliged.

Thanks
Hugh

One sentence I noticed from "How to save Time"

It seems that the article "How to save Time" is nothing special, because everyone knows that saving one's time is important. But one sentence in this article makes me impressive, and the sentence is "In order to delegate, you must come to terms with the fact that the task will not be done exactly how you would have done it."

My boss often tells me that I'm the project manager of the project which I responsible for, and I think this also means I have to responsible for the success or fail of the project. But my boss often intervene too much, and at the end, it seems that this project becomes the idea of my boss, but I still have to responsible for the success or fail.

In the darkness side, the behavior of my boss is "To say is one thing, To do is another thing", she says that she wants to delegate, but what she did is being afraid that the outcome of the project will not as she originally think, so she intervened. In the brightness side, my boss just wants everything is perfectly done.

There are three members in our team, and our more powerful bosses said that our team did not attain the performance of three people. Maybe one of the reasons is that my boss spends too much time on telling us how to doing our work, so my boss said that in the new year, she had to delegate more power to us to get our work done. I think it's a good thing, and I hope the work performance of our team in the new year will be better than the previous year.

The photo I noticed in "Christmas Comes to Elkhart Lake"

The topic I would like to talk is about one photo in this article, "Christmas Comes to Elkhart Lake". And the photo is in the bottom-left side in page 34, and the title of the photo is "Nesting dolls made in Russia for sale".

Interestingly, I also have a nesting doll, too. You can see my nesting doll by clicking the hyper- link. My brother's Russian customer gave me the nesting doll as a gift, and I think he would like to show his appreciation for accompanying him to visit National Palace Museum(故宮). I received the gift, and feeling extremely flattered because only I got the gift!! ha~ha~

I think the nesting doll is a very special stuff which could be one of the characteristic of Russia. As you open the first doll, you find the second doll which is smaller than the first one, and you continue opening the third one and curious about how many dolls in it until you open the last one. The drawing of each doll is different, and I'm not sure if the doll is handmade. If so, each doll is unique and priceless!! :)

After reading the article "Too many vacationers tied to office e-mail"

In this article,the author tell us that as technology improves we have to bear more pressure from our workload. It is very interesting point of view. We develop a lot of technology to help us accomplish tasks more easily, but some of them make us more nervous on our vacations. This article mention that it is hard to never check the emails when you are on vacation because you don't want to miss any message. It is the same as cellar phones. If don't get some phone from your boss, you should turn off the cellar phone to get rid of those interruptions on vacation.(To be continued....)

When I read the article, "Collaborative Culture for Software Developers", I noticed the word "pet project".One of the task of our team is to encourage staff in TL willing to develop their own pet project.

However, it is difficult to accomplished resulting from different factors such as policy, human nature,..etc. To be honest, I think I don't have enough enthusiasm to do so.

Even if someone who have great motivation, energy, enthusiasm to develop his or her pet project, what does their boss might think? "Oh! he has time to develop the pet project, did I give he too less work? Maybe I should increase his loading" or "Oh! he often told me that he is exhausted to do the work. Maybe it's because he pay too much attention on his pet project ! "

To me, pet project means difficulty, dilemma. Maybe this is because I'm not the one who can develop pet project. ha~