Make me better... "on the shoulders of giants"..

It struck me that most blogs I read only have X number of postings on the front page - and as with Google these days, it's very rare to go past the initial front page. This doesn't quite hold true if you have been a long term reader of a blog or get updates from Bloglet http://www.bloglet.com/ , but the point being 'less' is 'more'... quality over quantity per se..

I hereby set myself the challenge to keep this blog at one page, almost like a Wiki... but it's still a blog OK? This means reduced graphics, shorter explanations and more links to let you guys go 'walkabout', to read around the edges -> as most things have been said before anyway...

So I have some filters on my Gmail namely 'Efficiency / Productivity' and 'Reading List', and I thought I'd share some of them with you..

Efficiency and Productivity

• How to Write Micro Content http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html
• WikiWikiWeb based TiddlyWiki Remote http://phiffer.org/tiddly/
  
• Read this for a deep, deep insight into the workplace http://www.changethis.com/ go to the 'View Manifestos' link and then make sure you read Slacker@Work and How to Manage Smart People . Then maybe spend some time at http://www.slackermanager.com/
• Motivate yourself and 'develop personally' ;) with http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/ , I particularly enjoyed reading How to Become and Early Riser and then went to http://headrush.typepad.com/ and goofed around with a focus on Users aren't Dangerous and F**k the Rules
• The aptly titled http://www.lifehacker.com/ just too cool for school !
• The Josh Kaufman "Personal MBA" Program http://www.joshkaufman.net/archives/2005/03/the_josh_kaufma_1.html ( could kinda' be in the 'Reading List' section ! )
• GTD 'Getting Things Done' based excellent blog http://www.davidco.com/blogs/david/ and a brief startup list http://merlin.blogs.com/43folders/2004/09/getting_started.html to get you going with a nice PDF workflow etc http://www.davidco.com/pdfs/gtd_workflow_advanced.pdf
• 43Folders 'A bunch of tricks, hacks & other cool stuff' http://www.43folders.com/

Reading and Listening List

• O'Reilly Radar http://radar.oreilly.com/ , Wired and Wired Magazine respectively http://www.wired.com/ , http://www.wired.com/wired/
• Joel on Software 's reading list.. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html
• Professional Integrity nowhere better explained as in 'The Fountainhead', by Ayn Rand
• Really great chat's with the big guys like Paul Graham, Steve Wozniak, Tim O'Reilly and Bruce Shneier on ITConversations http://www.itconversations.com/
• Keep an eye on Plan 9 and the GNU's HURD , let's not forget the 'to be' Open Sourced Solaris 10

• Solaris 10 sounds great and is possibly a more designed version of the below.
• UML ( User Mode Linux ) http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
• FreeBSD's JAIL http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html

• Some interesting blogs / essays I like, [Security, General] Bruce Shneier http://www.schneier.com/blog/ , [Security, Microsoft] Robert Hensing http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/default.aspx , [Security, Microsoft] Tim Rains http://blogs.msdn.com/tim_rains/default.aspx , [Hacking, Programming] Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html , [General, Techy] Robert Scoble http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/ , [General, Techy] Steve Gillmor http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/

Fun Stuff

• Happy Tree Friends http://happytreefriends.atomfilms.com/index.html
  
• Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/
  
• PodCast Alley http://www.podcastalley.com/
• Paradise Engineering anyone? http://www.bltc.org/
• MSN Messenger through most firewalls http://webmessenger.msn.com/