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quotes

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Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.–Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), Poor Richard (July 1795)

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.–Hungarian proverb

I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.–Chico Marx

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.–Bob Hope, comedian

There are times not to flirt. When you’re sick. When you’re with children. When you’re on the witness stand.–Joyce Jillson

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.–Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.–George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

I do not like noise, unless I make it myself.–French proverb

Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot.–Steve Post

Go to bed. Whatever you’re staying up late for isn’t worth it.–Andy Rooney

He who is known as an early riser can stay in until noon.–Yiddish proverb

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.–Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916)

The amount of sleep required by the average person is about five minutes more.–Max Kauffman

The day will happen whether or not you get up.–John Ciardi (1916-1986)

There ought to be a better way of starting the day than having to get up.–Earl Wilson

All men are equal before fish.–Herbert Hoover, 1951

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.–Erma Bombeck (1927–1996)

Athletics have become professionalized.–Socrates (470–399 B.C.)

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.–Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944)

Football isn’t a matter of life or death; it’s much more important than that.–Bill Shankly (1913-1981).

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  • Frank Kanu on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006 @ 05:36
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new server

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I transferred my domains to a new server. Of course there was some downtime. But it’s so much faster now - compared with the old server…

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  • Frank Kanu on Friday, February 3rd, 2006 @ 13:30
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7 years of bad luck?

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My son just broke a mirror. Some think that it brings seven years of bad luck.

What do you think??


My daughter was born on Friday the 13th—only good luck there ;)

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  • Frank Kanu on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 @ 13:47
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Forced silence

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A few years ago one of my hard drives crashed—it just stopped spinning. I learnt from that experience, bought a big enough drive to do a daily backup. And have done this ever since—added a hard drive to the computer—for the backup. And felt save.

Until last week—when my machine miserably crashed. Both hard drives lived a short life and have caused me some headaches.

I’ve added a backup server to my network. It’s not only backing up the data but will also burn the backups weekly on DVD. At least I am not loosing more then a week. Except of course the hard drives and the DVD fail…

How do you back your data up?

And how often do you check if you backup can be restored?


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  • Frank Kanu on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 @ 22:51
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one of the best blogs of 2005

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C.E. Reid has a beautiful post about the Dirtiest 4 Letter Word

One of the best postings I’ve read in 2005.

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  • Frank Kanu on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 @ 22:14
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book title

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Stop Telling… Start Leading!
The Art of Managing People by Asking Questions
is the result of a focus study with managers to find the best title possible for my book.

Still, comments about the title range from horrible to fantastic.

What do you think?

And what do you do when you like or dislike the title of a book?



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  • Frank Kanu on Friday, December 16th, 2005 @ 19:10
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too good?

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Yesterday I talked with a deeply disappointed student. She has to re-do her term-paper. Why? Because what she did is too good. Her professor told her she will get zero points if she doesn’t do it again. And it must be worst than the original one.

Unbelievable!

What signal is this “teacher” sending? One that mediocrity rules, right?

Do companies really need more employees who will not even try to give their best—because their “teachers” already took care of destroying that habit…

What are you going to tell that student? Continue writing good papers and fail—or get mediocre and passing.

I am sorry, but if a “teacher” wants students to become mediocre—that person should leave school. Yesterday.

(PS: My manners do not allow me to say what I really think of that “teacher“.)

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  • Frank Kanu on Monday, December 12th, 2005 @ 11:59
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ethics

© Copyright Frank D. Kanu 2000-2008

It’s obvious that I just finished writing a book about managing people (do you really need me to link to all the postings about it?).

Some know that I am working now—besides promoting my other book—on a book about ethics. A hot enough topic to burn more then just the fingers… What I find rather annoying is the amount of people contacting me that they want to be a co-author. They do not know my writing style—without reading what I write—how would they? And—even more annoying—99% of them disappear the moment I am asking them to do some work; to show me something…

I am still researching—if you have a story to share or would like to just vent about ethics and how they have changed over the last few years…

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  • Frank Kanu on Thursday, December 8th, 2005 @ 10:43
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