きもちNovember 6, 2006 11:12 am

no more Baguio

at exactly 12:35 Sel(Criselda) arrived at the office with a bag of Jollibee burger, fries and coca-cola has brought with her a bad news. We don’t have a place anymore to stay in Baguio. Her uncle will gonna resign effective November 30, 2006.  Do you know who her uncle was? well.. it was only the Secretary of the Department of the National Defense(Philppines), Sec. Avelino Cruz Jr…. wow sugoi… No more Baguio… bye bye Baguio…emoticon

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きもち 11:08 am

unproductive

i am not productive again.  this is the 16th day that i am so lousy and unproductive.  i maybe sick, i wonder what it is…emoticon

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あたまがいい 11:00 am

productivity paradox

The so-called productivity paradox is the observation made in Computer Supported Cooperative Work and other business process analysis that, as new information technology is introduced, worker productivity may go down, not up. It was especially common in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

A number of explanations of this have been advanced, including:

  • The tendency - at least initially - of computer technology to be used for applications that have little impact on overall productivity, eg word processing.
  • inefficiencies arising from running manual paper-based and computer-based processes in parallel, requiring two separate sets of activities and human effort to mediate between them - usually considered a technology alignment problem
  • poor user interfaces that confuse users, prevent or slow access to time-saving facilities, are internally inconsistent both with each other and with terms used in work processes - a concern addressed in part by enterprise taxonomy
  • extremely poor hardware and related boot image control standards that forced users into endless "fixes" as operating systems and applications clashed - addressed in part by single board computers and simpler more automated re-install procedures, and the rise of software specifically to solve this problem, e.g. Norton Ghost
  • technology-driven change driven by companies such as Microsoft which profit directly from more rapid "upgrades"
  • an emphasis on presentation technology and even persuasion technology such as PowerPoint, at the direct expense of core business processes and learning - addressed in some companies including IBM and Sun by creating a PowerPoint-Free Zone
  • the blind assumption that introducing new technology must be good

— from Wikipediaemoticon

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