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04.30.08Smarter Solutions’ Lean Six Sigma
Note: Sponsored Post
Ever heard of the Lean Six Sigma? Well it is a process-oriented strategy developed by Smarter Solutions Inc which is aimed at increasing operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and shareholder value. It is primarily designed for business organizations but its objective of eliminating waste (of financial resources, time, etc) should also apply to non-business entities.
Check out Smarter Solutions’ Six Sigma Black Belt Training if you’d like to know more about this.
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04.24.08Don’t Throw Out Those Broken Bottles
What do you do with your broken bottles or glasses? Do you just throw them out with the rest of your garbage? If you do, that’s considered an environmental sin. It’s just as bad as McDonalds and Jollibbee using all those plastic cups and styrophor plates.
So what should we do with our broken bottles then? Well, let’s make them into glass cullets, that’s what.
I heard of glass cullets back in the 1990s when I visited the recycling place in Sagada which was located near Ken Kitongan or the bottomless pit. [If you haven’t heard of Sagada’s bottomless pit, it’s between the cemetery and the old St. Mary’s School laboratory.]
Anyways, while visiting that recycling center I noticed that they were crushing broken bottles and glasses. I was told that the Glass Cullet, among its many other uses, can be added to the sand and cement which one uses to build a house or any construction project. I was like, “Whoo, wouldn’t those pieces of broken glass cut into the tires of a car when they’re used in a road project?”
Stupid question, no? I was assured that it won’t happen like that. In fact, I was told that crushed glass cullets behave like natural sand. Natural sand, of course, don’t cut into the tires of passing cars, right? Right.
Anyways, I’m not sure whether the Sagada folks who were recycling these broken bottles are still at it. I certainly hope they are. It would be sad if, like practically every worthwhile undertaking in these islands in the Pacific, their venture dies an unlamented death.
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04.15.08Geeks and Virtual Universes
Well, I must admit that this is the first time I hear of metaRL.com, metaverse, free lindens, virtual worlds, and that kind of stuff. I’m sure it is a new thing to a lot of us whose online experience is mostly focused on blogging hehe.
Anyways, what is metaRL? It is a web site for geeks who are into virtual worlds. In said site, you can play games, participate in surveys, join contests, and many other things. While doing these things you will, in the process, earn virtual currency.
Okay. How much virtual money can you earn? Apparently, you can earn as much as you like. The more you participate in the online activities, the higher will your points be and — obviously — your virtual earnings will be higher.
Ha, ain’t that a nice way to have virtual money. By the way, just to be clear, we are talking about virtual money here and not that kind which you can put in your wallet.
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04.09.08Review: web-articles.info
This is a review of web-articles.info, an online directory of web services related articles. Said articles are submitted by different sources who would like their pieces included in the directory. Since this is a review, let us look at both what is good and what is bad with said website.
First, here’s the good side. We like the fact that the site facilitates the sharing of information and is mindful of the need to cite/link to one’s sources. We are a fan of information sharing and we also believe that if you borrow anything from the web, the decent thing to do is to link back to where you borrowed.
Now, here’s our negative feedback which, we hope, will be taken positively by the website owner. One, there is a need to check the site content’s spelling and grammar. Sure, we can be lenient with grammar and bad spellings in the web; after all, internet publishing means instant publishing so grammatical and spelling lapses are understandable and can be excusable. However, there is such a thing as too many mistakes that can turn off your readers.
Second, the articles are hard to read because 1) the font is too small and 2) the articles run from the left edge of the computer to the other edge. In newspaper parlance, it’s just too much gray space. The effect of this gray space? It looks unfriendly and un-inviting; it is likely that only a very dutiful or a very information-hungry reader will have the patience to read the articles.
How to solve these problems? To us, it would be increasing the font and changing the one column format for the articles into two columns.
So that’s our review, friends.
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04.08.08Visiting Orlando?
Anyone out there planning to join the 2008 American Urological Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida? Well, my friend, in case you are one of them urologists going to this convention and you are looking for a place to stay, why not check out the Lake Buena Vista hotels.
Uhm, but why should you check out said hotel? Because it is near the convention center, my friend, so if the conference gets a bit boring you can sneak out and go take a nap in your room. Not that we’re telling you to do that but consider it an option. (Disclosure: We’re an expert in sneaking out of boring conferences. Yeah, we’re bad. But it’s not like sneaking out is one of those deadly sins as declared by the Pope so we’re sure Saint Peter and his rooster will understand and forgive our transgressions.)
Anyways, here are other reasons why you should consider staying at the the Orlando Vista Hotel: it is just a half-mile away from Downtown Disney® Pleasure Island and minutes to the Orlando Convention Center, SeaWorld®, Universal Studios®, and the Florida Mall; the hotel is geared towards conventioneers so they know the needs and wants of convention attendees like you; and they offer great rates.
There are other reasons too but you will think we are doing too much of a hard sell if we mention all of them. But once again, those of you looking for American Urological Association hotels, should check out the Orlando Vista Hotel.
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04.06.08Car Loan
So you woke up one day and said, “Aha. I should buy myself a car. I need one to get to work on time.” But then you remember your mom saying, “Heh, cars. Do you really need one? Just get up early so you can get to work on time.”
Defensive, you say, “Of course I get up early. But my work starts quite early too. Last week my boss breathed down my neck because I was late. I don’t want him to do that again.”
Then you imagine your mom saying, “Whatever. You gotta do what you gotta do.”
Anyways, for those of you planning to buy a car and who would like to do it through a financing plan, you might want to check out the Car Loan section of bestleadinglenders.com.
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04.06.08Industrial Directory
Anyone of you looking for industrial-type products like gas springs, drive belts, gaskets, and surveyors? Or do you have companies that produce these things or other industrial products and you would like your company to be listed in an online directory for free? Then you might want to check out Zycon, a website directory for industrial products .
So if you are, say, an engineer or a contractor and you need a hard-to-find product for that building project you are doing, Zycon could be a good place to start that search. Of course, as we said above, manufacturers and distributors can also have their contact information listed in the Zycon directory for free.
