İnsan, âlemde hayâl ettiği müddetçe yaşar.

DENİZ TÜRKÜSÜ

Dolu rüzgârla çıkıp ufka giden yelkenli!
Gidişin seçtiğin akşam saatinden belli.
Ömrünün geçtiği sahilden uzaklaştıkça
Ve hayâlinde doğan âleme yaklaştıkça,
Dalga kıvrımları ardında büyür tenhâlık
Başka bir çerçevedir, git gide dünyâ artık.
Daldığın mihveri, gittikçe, sarar başka ziyâ;
Mâvidir her taraf, üstün gece, altın deryâ...

Yol da benzer hem uzun, hem de güzel bir masala
O saatler ki geçer başbaşa yıldızlarla.
Lâkin az sonra lezîz uyku bir encâma varır;
Hilkatin gördüğü rü'yâ biter, etrâf ağarır.
Som gümüşten sular üstünde, giderken ileri
Tâ uzaklarda şafak bir bir açar perdeleri...
Mûsıkîsiyle bir âlem kesilir çalkantı;
Ve nihâyet görünür gök ve deniz saltanatı.

Girdiğin aynada, geçmiş gibi dîğer küreye,
Sorma bir sâniye, şüpheyle, sakın: "Yol nereye?"
Ayılıp neş'eni yükseltici sarhoşluktan,
Yılma korkunç uçurum zannedilen boşluktan
Duy tabîatte biraz sen de ilâh olduğunu,
Rûh erer varlığının zevkine duymakla bunu.

Çıktığın yolda, bugün, yelken açık, yapyalnız,
Gözlerin arkaya çevrilmeyerek, pervâsız,
Yürü! Hür mâviliğin bittiği son hadde kadar!...

İnsan, âlemde hayâl ettiği müddetçe yaşar.

    -Yahya Kemal Beyatli

"I'm reading a book called All Your Worth right now. They recommend having 50% of your income go for your "must-haves", 30% go for your "wants", and 20% go into "savings", I could tag all my transactions with one of those three tags, for example, in addition to the traditional category, "groceries" "utilities" and so on. From my initial glance, it looks like about 70% of our income goes for must-haves, and I put 20% of it into savings, so maybe some of my frustration comes from trying to squeeze all our wants -- the camping, the classes, the flower essences, the DSL line, the swimming, the bicycle lights, the Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Cups, the trips to the café with the kids, and so on -- out of 10% of our income. We need to look at strategies to get our must-haves -- mortgage, utilities, groceries, insurance -- down to 50%. Things would definitely be easier." from Paul Cooley's CarFreeFamily blog. This is a GREAT suggestion for those looking to simplify their expense tracking! I've been using Quicken for Windows ever since I can remember myself, and in the past 5 years I find it cumbersome and time consuming to keep that much detail on a regular basis. It was great when I first needed to learn how much does it cost to raise a family of four and how much does it cost to get a divorce and how much does it cost to be the father of twins after the divorce and feelings of 'guilt' and so on. But now? i think 'Must Haves' 'Wants' and 'Savings' is plenty to figure out where the money is dissapearing. Wait! who defines whether if Foie Gras is with 'must haves' or 'wants'?

The singularity is near... (wikipedia it!)

Trying to get a feel of the new millenia...
Wondering how it will effect and how we will define human relations.

I created a tweet on Twitter; created a blog at the Blogger; opened a web album with Picasa; have had a map account with Google Maps for quite some time now; not to mention a Facebook profile (sorry myspace! could not quite warm up to you); oh! almost forgot -I even have a YouTube account, though not sure what to do with it yet.

...and now, so that my tired brain can access them easily, I centralized the links to all those under my Facebook profile. Am I missing anything?

On the professional end of the spectrum i do of course have a Linked-in and a Spoke account. I have dabbled in several more sites of the similar kind but am not 'sold' on them just yet. Will keep you posted once the jury is out.

You Shine.

There are some souls
on this earth that just seem
to shine a little brighter.
It's not because
they've been left to burn
in peace and quiet.
I think it's because
they've been stirred -
and poked, and prodded.
The fire grows and glows because of
the beautiful struggle they're in.
The flame gets a little hotter,
the heart a little stronger,
and the soul so very, very, bright.

You shine.

Someone was so very kind to send me this note, thinking of me when read it.
I think this is so flattering and so undeserved, and that I can think of so many people that I have met that these lines are more befitting to them, that I decided to post it here so that those of you who know who you are can enjoy this tribute to you(s).

Bruner Time Management Corollary

I stumbled on to this blog entry as I was poking around the net (my favorite pass time) and realized once again that we are all so much alike.
Read it and you will understand what I mean. This is exactly what I do and used to be ashamed to admit to it. Now I dare to assume that at least 80% of the readers will identify with it.

Quote'un'Quote from Rick E. Bruner's Executive Summary Blog (http://www.executivesummary.com/)

I call it Bruner's Corollary (to Maslow's Hierarchy) on Time Management. Abraham Maslow was a smart guy best known for something called Maslow Hierarchy of Needs, which can be summarized as "first things first," or in the human condition, breathing, food and water are more important for survival than love, art, morality, etc. As a metaphor, it's popular in business management, to the extent that posthumously a bunch of his ramblings have been cobbled together as Maslow on Management, which I own but haven't had time to read (yes, I see the irony).

Along those lines, I've come up with a corollary for time management. Time management is one of those things we'd all like to get a better handle on. On the advice of a friend, I bought David Allen's Getting Things Done. Hoot! I got about three chapters in and I felt like was enrolled in a college course for which I'd missed two or three prerequisites; insanely complicated methodology.

The Bruner Corollary on Time Management is much simpler and can be summarized thusly:

Step 1) Whatever it is, ignore it.

Step 2) If it is important, it should call you back.

It's also a great filing system:

Step 1) Set whatever it is on the giant pile of paper on your desk.

Step 2) Months later, find time to plow through the pile and realize, to your great relief, that most of it is no longer relevant and can be thrown away.

Probably like many of you, I get a redonkulous number of emails daily, way too much to deal with, particularly if I hope to accomplish anything else. So I kind of graze. If you're my wife or my boss, or my boss's boss or the CEO (yes, I'm a peon), I'll probably read your email right away. If you're anyone else, I'll try to get to it when I can. That may be never.

The way I figure, if it's important, you'll probably email me again. Better yet, you'll call. If you don't know my phone number, and you don't show enough initiative to figure it out, whatever you want can probably wait. It's not as important as breathing or eating or sleeping, is it? And if it's not that important, how important could it really be?