a blog of Taras Filatov

I have logged into facebook which I havent’ checked for a long time and have received a storm of various inviations

as famous Russian “vkontakte.ru” is nothing but Facebook, soon the same will start happening in Russian-speaking internet

social networks will eat 70% time of those who can’t stop themselves from using useless applications

as with any other thing, there are good and bad sides about social networks and it depends on how you use them

those guys will earn a lot who create these timewasting applications such as plugin allowing you to drop snowballs into your friends or application picking random phrases about Chuck Norris

the future is bright

let’s use the social networks, maintain our contacts, have fun, but do it considerably

thanks bro :))

P.S. I might start developing applications for social networks, it seems a good business. Will try to make useful ones though.

I was always looking for a free and easy to use software allowing to create Gantt charts which are very handy in project management and time management.

And now there is a perfect match, an open source GanttProject, you can download the software here:

http://ganttproject.biz/download.php

Very easy to use and install, I have installed it and created a chart for my project in 15 minutes, then exported it into PNG file. Cheers to the development team!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCHo0ar_2mE

a brilliant motivational speech by Steve Jobs

Stanford, 2005 (sent by Vladimir)

I’m very unsatisfied with the speed of my thinking over last couple of years. The only solution I have to make my brain work as it used to is sport. I really believe in saying “the healthy mind lives in a healthy body”. I’m therefore going to take in sports quite seriously and see if it works for me.

The other thing I want to deal with is my inability to be active the whole day and switch off during the night. It’s really annoying. Mostly caused by two years of office slavery, I suppose. The solution I have for this is to make every day action packed. My Nokia N95 to do list should be always full and I’m going to try and do more work and stuff every day. I feel it is mine, having to deal with, say, 7 projects simultaneously. This is a way it should be.