GREEN TIP OF THE DAY

GREEN TIP OF THE DAY: Some tax credits for home renos expire at the end of 2010, so plan your green fixes now.

The field of conscio

The field of consciousness is tiny.  It accepts only one problem at a time.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Stress is the trash

Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.  ~Danzae Pace

Give your stress win

Give your stress wings and let it fly away.  ~Carin Hartness

Don't underestimate

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.  ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

Take rest; a field t

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.  ~Ovid

The man who doesn't

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Do anything, but let

Do anything, but let it produce joy." —Walt Whitman

Some people require

Some people require a little assembly. Don't write them off so quickly.

"We find comfort wit

"We find comfort with those who agree with us; growth among those who don't" ~ Frank A. Clark

"I make the most of

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"

"Only I can change m

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." ~ Carol Burnett

"Let positivity prev

"Let positivity prevail no matter what. Adversity, turmoil, and turbulence exists, but we all have a choice how to deal with it. Choose positivity." ~ Eliot Lee

"Give thanks for wha

"Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow." ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

If you move forward

If you move forward without a plan, you'll just keep getting turned around.

VbDon't worry if you

VbDon't worry if you fall down occasionally. The point is getting back up again.

Cut the fat and keep

Cut the fat and keep the good stuff. Your life isn't defined by your possessions.

“The foundation of

“The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.” ~ Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

“Give up all bad q

“Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.” ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“In general, pride

“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.” ~ John Ruskin

"The past is a ghost

"The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now." ~ Bill Cosby

"The ego constantly

"The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice." ~ Darren L. Johnson

"Always tell the tru

"Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time." ~ Sam Rayburn

"a man travels the w

"a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." ~ George Moore

You'll get a lot mor

You'll get a lot more accomplished if you just accept things the way they are.

"One day your life w

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.”~ Unknown Author

“A lot of people a

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.” ~ Madonna

"Everyone chases aft

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.” ~ Bertolt Brecht

"A wonderful paintin

"A wonderful painting is the result of the feeling in your fingers. If you have the feeling of the thickness of the ink in your brush, the painting is already there before you paint. When you dip your brush into the ink you already know the result of your drawing, or else you cannot paint. So before you do something, "being" is there, the result is there. Even though you look as if you were sitting quietly, all your activity, past and present, is included, and the result of your sitting is also already there." - D.T. Suzuki

"Success usually com

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Believe me! The s

“Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who strikes the

"He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument." Chinese Proverb

"Everything is a tes

"Everything is a test to see what you will do. Mistaking what's before your face, you'll have to start anew. Truly recognize your own faults. Don't talk about the faults of others. Other's faults are just my own. Being of the same substance is called great compassion." ~ Buddha Dharma

"We're never so vuln

"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy." ~ Walter Anderson

“Joy is the feelin

“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.” ~ Melba Colgrove

"If a mistake is not

"If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake." ~Eli Siegel

"Kind words can be s

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~ Mother Teresa

"Glory is fleeting,

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"As long as the worl

"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes." ~ Mel Brooks

"Dealing with a turb

"Dealing with a turbulent past that winds itself through the present is best done with utmost compassion and forgiveness, letting completely go of resentment and anger." ~ Eliot Lee

"I've learned that y

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time." ~ Oprah Winfrey

“Life has taught m

“Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.” ~ Donna A. Favors

“So when you are l

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Too often we unde

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~ Leo F. Buscaglia

"There are chapters

"There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud." ~ Carol Shields

"All men should stri

"All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." ~ James Thurber

"Moments are all we

"Moments are all we have. They come and go. Experience them, but don't get hooked by them. Life is impermanent." ~ Eliot Lee

"Too many people are

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." ~ James F. Byrnes

"Our life is fritter

"Our life is frittered away by details...simplify, simplify." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Web Admin Tip: Using

Web Admin Tip: Using Selenium Grid in concert with either Cruise Control or Hudson will provide easier mechanisms to do continuous integrated testing of web applications.

"Stillness leads to

"Stillness leads to calmness. Chaos leads to madness." ~ Eliot Lee

"Play for more than

"Play for more than you can afford to lose and you'll learn the game." ~ Winston Churchill

"Be Kind. Treat your

"Be Kind. Treat yourself and others with kindness when you eat, exercise, play, work, love, and everything else. When you think, feel, and act kindly, you hasten your ability to connect to the power of intention." ~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“When you judge an

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” ~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Web Admin Tests: One

Web Admin Tests: One drawback to Selenium Server is that it does not contain email results option, only generation of web page results. Need other tools like Cruise Control to handle robust notifications.

"Pleasure in the job

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle

“I'm not concerned

“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” ~ Jackie Robinson

My intent will be ev

My intent will be evident in the results.” ~ Thurgood Marshall

"To create a better

"To create a better world and transform war into peace, we must begin by changing our minds." ~ Buddha Dharma

Web Admin Tip: Over-

Web Admin Tip: Over-use of Ajex and Web 2.0 in Web sites can make them clunky and difficult to use.

"We would often be s

"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified." Aesop

"Acceptance works li

"Acceptance works like love, I believe. If you love yourself, then you can love others! If you accept yourself wholeheartedly for you who you are, then you can accept others! Plain and simple, but so difficult to employ!" ~ Eliot Lee

"I think of life its

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part." ~ Shirley MacLaine

"There's no point in

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."

Web Admin Tip: Never

Web Admin Tip: Never assume that a manager in charge of software development understands all technologies, even the simple ones like HTML.

Web Admin Tip: Autom

Web Admin Tip: Automated interface testing requires periodic rewriting of test cases for regression testing.

Web Admin Tip: Forci

Web Admin Tip: Forcing SSL access requires redirecting all traffic from port 80 to 443 within Named Virtual Hosts.

"To know when to go

"To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship." ~ Doménico Cieri Estrada

"He that is good for

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Before you criticiz

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes."

"Greetings. I am ple

"Greetings. I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us." ~ Mr. Spock

"Having someone wond

"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need." ~ Margaret Mead

"Don't smother each

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." ~ Leo Buscaglia

"Compassion literall

"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing

"When your heart is

"When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme." Jiminy Cricket

"Love life and life

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back." ~ Arthur Rubinstein

"Never apologize for

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

"The major block to

"The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation." ~ Diane Berke

Internal struggles a

Internal struggles and triggers are part of being human due to innate connection to the past.

Happy National Desse

Happy National Dessert Day!

If things aren't goi

If things aren't going the way you want, it's time to take control and make changes.

Strike out a new dir

Strike out a new direction, be bold.

Intimacy is the hard

Intimacy is the hardest thing to grasp and hold on to.

Web Admin Tip: It is

Web Admin Tip: It is recommending syncing up resources between individual developer environments with integrated development servers to avoid targetshooting annoying inconsistencies.

"Never cut a tree do

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." ~ Robert H. Schuller

"Even if you walk ex

"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same." ~ A. R. Ammons

"Truth is one foreve

"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator." ~ Wendell Phillips

Web Admin Tip: With

Web Admin Tip: With using Glassfish Java Server, environment variables are configured in the /glassfish/config/asenv.conf. Setting environment variables in startup scripts will be overwrote by configurations in this particular file, including LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

“Tenderness and ki

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"Almost every wise s

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." ~ George Satanaya

Not sure how to phra

Not sure how to phrase what you've got on your mind? Don't rush

Web Admin Tip: Be ca

Web Admin Tip: Be careful when using third party web server modules. They may contain security holes and cause performance problems.

“Kiss your life. A

“Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you're waiting for don't pass you by.”

“The truth is that

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

“Life gives us bri

“Life gives us brief moments with another...but sometimes in those brief moment we get memories that last a life time...”

Web Admin Tip: Googl

Web Admin Tip: Google search tip. Enter a mathematical equation in the Google search box and you will get the answer.

"A preoccupation wit

"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past." ~ Eric Hoffer

“It is no use tryi

“It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Web Admin Tip: Be cl

Web Admin Tip: Be clear about what process users should follow, don't assume anything.

"A sound mind in a s

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." ~ John Locke

You can try to plan

You can try to plan ahead in life, but you can't always succeed. Stay flexible.

Don't get hooked on

Don't get hooked on emotions...recognize, refrain, relax, resolve.

"At the height of la

"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities." ~ Jean Houston

Web Admin Tip: Commo

Web Admin Tip: Common variables should be stored in a properties type of file across any server-side programming language. Repeating variable configurations or unsetting variables in scripts is not wise.

"However, there are

"However, there are times where you or that person has changed to the extent that it's necessary to let go of the relationship or friendship, so that each of you can fulfill your life path." ~ Unknown Author

Talking is always go

Talking is always good, but doing is much better today! It's time to take action.

"Recognize...Refrain

"Recognize...Refrain...Relax...Resolve"

"Let the world know

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be - because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose and then, where are you?" Fanny Brice

Love cannot be force

Love cannot be forced. It takes time and energy.

Web Admin Tip: Restr

Web Admin Tip: Restrictions in third party applications can be hidden in database configurations. Check database constraints before pulling hair out or banging head on wall.

"Ability is of littl

"Ability is of little account without opportunity." ~ Napoleon

"Opportunity is ofte

"Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards." ~ William Arthur Ward

If the doors of perc

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. - William Blake

"All conditioned thi

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification. - Buddha

In criticizing, the

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all. - Bankei

Web Admin Tip: One o

Web Admin Tip: One of the biggest challenges in web systems is decoupling systems and working on them in parallel since all systems are intertwined and interdependent.

No one can predict t

No one can predict the future. So why worry about the unknown. Be free and live in the now.

Adventure is everywh

Adventure is everywhere; you just have to see the opportunities each day brings.

Anxiety is a sign of

Anxiety is a sign of the ego and subconscious fighting each other. Ego is a big bullly and can be brought down.

A healthy partner bu

A healthy partner builds, supports, and encourages versus an unhealthy partner competes, discourages, and controls.

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Web Admin Tip: Using

Web Admin Tip: Using Apache XSSI can help to set up conditions between different environments (development, staging, and production).

Leave drama where it

Leave drama where it belongs, on stages and studios. Drama is wasted energy in everyday life.

Everyone deserves co

Everyone deserves compassion and understanding.

Web Admin Tip: Make

Web Admin Tip: Make unsubscribe requests easy for users. Do not make them go through hoops to unsubscribe from email lists.

National Waffle Week

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Free Burger Opportun

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The road to happines

The road to happiness is never straight and contains bumps and pitfalls.

Clear mind leads to

Clear mind leads to clear actions.

"Of all forms of cau

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." ~ Bertrand Russell

"With the gift of li

"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing." ~ Catherine de Hueck

Web Admin Tip of the

Web Admin Tip of the Day: Application loads are important to bear in mind in terms of server performance.

Enjoy the randomness

Enjoy the randomness of life.

"It's easy to make a

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." ~ Tom Brokaw