Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Church of No Agenda Sunday

It is Sunday which means it is time once again for the Church of No Agenda.  Todays program list:

NA-152-2009-11-29

Posted on Sunday 29 November 2009

#152 No Agenda For Sunday November 29th 2009
Attack Of The Icebergs

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Digest your American Thanksgiving dinner with No Agenda

Happy Thanksgiving to the USA. The best way to digest that Turkey dinner is to digest No Agenda:


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Posted on Thursday 26 November 2009

#151 No Agenda For Thursday November 26th 2009
Turkeys Going Rogue

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Brain Dead TV in the USA

I'm sorry but for me, spending over half of my life working in the television industry and spending a few weeks in the USA, it is no wonder there is so much stupidity out there.  Going through more than 60 channels of TV at 10pm on a Tuesday night, I honestly can not believe how incredibly pathetic it is on the 'boob toob'.. there is absolutely nothing worth while to watch let alone educational. I can't believe I am wishing there was at least the CBC to watch.  It is no wonder there is a problem with the education system in the USA when there is absolutely nothing educational to watch at this hour.





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Monday, November 23, 2009

Sunday-Time for the Church of No Agenda

Sunday means it is time for the Church of No Agenda. On tap for this episode:

NA-150-2009-11-22

Posted on Sunday 22 November 2009

#150 No Agenda For Sunday November 22nd 2009
Global Warming Denialism

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Automating your install

If you are performing a lot of computer installs or simply doing your own reformat and reinstall of your system Ninite makes it a little easier.





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Thursday, November 19, 2009

iphone apps

I have reached my last page on my iphone for apps. I guess Apple doesn't want any more of my money.  Actually looking at some of my apps, I realize the one app area I seem to have the most of would be the 'task list' or 'to do' list.. go figure!  Now I must decide which of these I really never use and pick out the top apps for each category currently on my iphone. Either that or Apple is going to have to expand the amount of pages of apps that my phone will hold.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

The Church of No Agenda

It's time once again for the church of No Agenda. Here is what you can look forward to:

NA-148-2009-11-15

Posted on Sunday 15 November 2009

#148 No Agenda For Sunday November 15th 2009
Adam Gets Kicked Out

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

No Agenda-mid week

I forgot to post the No Agenda listing for the mid-week podcast. In case you were waiting for it, here it is:

NA-147-2009-11-11

Posted on Thursday 12 November 2009

#147 No Agenda For Wednesday November 11th 2009
Podcast Award Nominees

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Monday, November 09, 2009

It's Sunday-Time for the church of NO AGENDA

For me it is the start of a new week, it's Sunday time for the Church of No Agenda

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Posted on Sunday 8 November 2009

#146 No Agenda For Sunday November 8th 2009
Fort Hood Terrorist

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Sunday, November 08, 2009

The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something

Oh how true...

 
 

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via Zen Habits by Leo on 11/3/09

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person." - Albert Einstein

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.

Very often you'll see blog posts or books teaching you to "master" a skill in only 10 days, or 3 days … in fact, it used to be 30 days but the time frame to master something seems to be shrinking rapidly.

I've even seen tutorials claiming to teach a skill in just a few hours. Pretty soon we'll be demanding to know how to do something in seconds.

Instant mastery of skills and knowledge! Hey presto!

Unfortunately, the reality is something a little less magical. Or maybe that's a fortunate thing.

There's only one way to become good at something:

1. First, you must learn it by reading or listening to others who know how to do it, but most especially by doing.
2. Then do some more. At this point, you'll start to understand it, but you'll suck. This stage could take months.
3. Do some more. After a couple of years, you'll get good at it.
4. Do some more. If you learn from mistakes, and aren't afraid to make mistakes in the first place, you'll go from good to great.

It takes anywhere from 6-10 years to get great at something, depending on how often and how much you do it. Some estimate that it takes 10,000 hours to master something, but I think it varies from person to person and depends on the skill and other factors.

Want to be a great writer? It's possible to be great within a few years, if you have the God-given talent of Fitzgerald or Shakespeare, but most of us toil for over a decade and are still trying to get better. We're still learning, to this day, and if we look back on our first few years of writing — of any kind — we'll tell you we sucked (for the most part) back then.

Want to be a great blogger? Same deal. I've been doing it for almost three years, and I'm still only competent. Gruber's been doing it for, like, 7 years and he's still only … well, he's pretty great by now. You have to do it, make mistakes, learn, really begin to understand it, and someday, if you stick with it, you'll be great.

There's no one who is great at his profession who hasn't been doing it for at least 6 years — no designer, no programmer, no carpenter, no architect, no surgeon, no teacher, no musician, no artist … you get the point. I dare you to name one. Most have been doing it for over a decade, and are still looking to improve.

It takes desire, it takes drive, it takes lots and lots of doing.

So here's the thing: don't get discouraged if you're just starting out. Have fun, like we all did in the beginning. If you have fun, you'll learn to love it, and THAT'S when it clicks. When you love something, you'll want to do it all the time, sometimes late at night and often, you'll jump out of bed and want to do it before you move your morning bowels.

THAT'S how you get great. By loving it so much your morning bowel movement takes second seat.

"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is." - George Lucas

Find that desire. Do it, don't just read about it. Don't buy a single product or book or magazine that claims to teach you something in minutes, hours, days. They're lying to your face, with a hand in your pocket at the same time.

Do it, keep doing it, then keep doing it some more. It's the only way to get great, but the good news: anyone can do it. It just takes some time and some doing. Hey presto.

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

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Friday, November 06, 2009

Oops I forgot about No Agenda

Oops I forgot to mention the new No Agenda is out:

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Posted on Thursday 5 November 2009

#145 No Agenda For Thursday November 5th 2009

The WOCU Show 

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No Agenda 145

Big Pharma

Why boys are turning into girls « Aftermath News

"Restless Vagina Syndrome": Big Pharma's Newest Fake Disease | Sex and Relationships | AlterNet

Swine Flu

20091103 Partij Prevenar 'on hold' (Infectieziektebestrijding)

Scientists, who work for WHO influenza laboratory, hold patent for bioengineered swine flu virus

Deadly nanoparticles in swine flu jabs for Europe?

'95% griep- gevallen Mexicaans' – Nationale Grieplijn – Telegraaf.nl [24 uur Actueel, ook mobiel] [Grieplijn]

New group helps US monitor swine flu shot safety – Look | Reflector.com

Health
Services Researcher and HSPH Professor Marie McCormick Receives Douglas
K. Richardson Award – April 27, 2006 -2006 Releases – Press Releases -
Harvard School of Public Health

Waiver or Modification of Requirements under Section 1135 of the Social Security Act

WHO
memos 1972 explains how to turn vaccines into a means of killing | H1N1
Flu | Swine Flu | Bioweapon | Mass Vaccination | Cure

Mass vaccination of schoolchildren to stop spread of swine flu – Telegraph

Ukraine virus mystery deepens | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Reported Cases in Ukraine Double in Two Days

AFP: WHO 'assumes' Ukraine gripped by swine flu

IBM Internal Document Outlines Knowledge of Planned Pandemic With 100% Certainty

Nation Is Facing Shortage of Seasonal Flu Vaccine – NYTimes.com

Inhoud griepvaccin H1N1 niet openbaar – AlmeloNieuws

Specious: Kellogg Hints That Cocoa Krispies Will Save Your Kids From Swine Flu

Prevention of Plague: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

Real News

BBC NEWS | Health | Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'

Financial

Author Says G-20 Meeting in Scotland this Week about Dumping U.S. Dollar

Hunger in America: Half of Our Kids on Food Stamps | ChattahBox News Blog

Reason Foundation – Out of Control Policy Blog > Rep. Ron Paul's Bill to Audit the Federal Reserve 'Gutted' in Committee

WOCU: A stable currency for treasurers?

Gold Climbs to Record as India's Central Bank Buys IMF Bullion – Bloomberg.com

The Associated Press: STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job

Daily Express | UK News :: Secret plan for Euro income tax

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Obama creates 640,329 jobs at a cost of $323,739.83 per job

Recovery.gov revamped with an unexpected helper: SharePoint – General News

Media Assassinations

30 Rock's Hard Rocker | The New York Observer

NWO

Christina Gitmo Train Ride

Big Ass Datacenter with Machine gun turrents

Tsjechië ondertekent Verdrag van Lissabon | nu.nl/politiek | Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl

Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister

The Associated Press: Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnap case

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. « Dprogram.net

Election 2009: Where have all the young voters gone? | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

So much Obama damage control, that David Axelrod even talks to Fox News | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

Top Dissident US Newsmen Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs Targeted By Assassins

U.S. Needs Hit Squads, 'Manhunting Agency': Spec Ops Report | Danger Room | Wired.com

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be 'raped with broken bottles' | Raw Story

Hillary's Ill Will Tour by Justin Raimondo — Antiwar.com

Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan: Hillary Clinton

Roundtable with Business Leaders Opening and Closing Remarks

British nuclear expert's 17th floor UN death plunge 'was not suicide' | Mail Online

informationliberation – Using Cash Sign Of Terrorist, According To FBI

Police in £9m scheme to log 'domestic extremists' | UK news | The Guardian

Climate Change

Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Gore compares global warming skeptics to moon landing deniers | Raw Story

Science Museum – Home – PROVE IT!

Home – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

American Thinker Blog: Al Gore Ducks Warming Debate (Updated)

NoAgendaChat.Com – Chat Logs From Live Show – Part 2

 

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