Archive for September 28th, 2008

Striking Tricky Deals

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

We make deals all the time. We make deals about how much we will eat one day, and then deals about how much we will exercise to burn off anything that we should not have eaten. Have you heard about law of attraction? Making those kind of deals can be very tricky on your mind. We make deals with business clients, and we make deals with friends and family. But all the while, we are also making deals with ourselves about what we can do and what we do not want to do. Also known as boundaries, we can often feel trapped in our own limitations. We can feel uninspired and perhaps even unmotivated.

Think And Grow Rich

The grandfather of The Law Of Attraction was Napoleon Hill. He mastered the concept and showed thousands of people how to battle with those decision making processes. In his book: Think And Grow Rich, he gives you many tools to use for everyday issues and motivating yourself.

Motivating Tools

There are however, there are ways to turn your deals into motivating tools. For those people who have troubles getting starting on certain tasks, making deals can help you get over the initial hump of these mundane tasks. Tell yourself that you will spend 10 minutes doing whatever it is that you abhor doing. And at the end of those 10 minutes, you can stop and move onto something else. Sometimes, this is all it takes to push through and finish that task that you did not want to do.

Reward Yourself

If rewards get you excited about doing things, they promise yourself a small reward when you finish a certain task. This will help you push through something difficult but only if you truly do not reward yourself until after the actual task is done. And you also do not want to get into the habit of needing a reward each time, so make sure the reward fits the task at hand. Smaller rewards for smaller tasks, that is.

In addition, you might want to make a deal with yourself about how quickly you can get something done. For those who thrive on competition, this is a strong motivator. You want to break your record for the time you have, so many people will actually become more efficient as a result.

MP3 Players Overview

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

I still remember when the early MP3 players came out. My friend in London who had one proudly showed off his acquisition and people looked at him strangely when he was ‘plugged in’ on the underground.

Today, it is scarcely possible to imagine life without these devices and they come in multiple formats and shapes, ranging from Apple Ipods to Flash based players and CD based players. An MP3 player is actually a misnomer since these devices don’t just play MP3s, but any type of audio file in digital format, which is why they are often called DAPs, or Digital Audio Players.

As mentioned, there are various versions of MP3 Players, for example:

Ipod - this is arguably the most popular MP3 player on the market today, although the biggest complaint against the Ipod is that the only way to get new music is to buy it from the Apple store

Flash based MP3 players - These MP3 players stores the music on a memory card or flash based memory

Hard disk based - these can store many more songs!

CD based

The other use that can be made of MP3s are for cellphone ringtones, and this use has basically exploded. The controversy around using MP3s for ringtones are almost the same as for MP3 players and revolve around the fact that it is easy to obtain music that are converted into MP3 illegally and then copied to these devices.

But this is basically a case of killing the messenger, since the MP3 player or cellphone would be merely the device on which the music is played, and it is quite possible to obtain MP3 ringtones legally. If you want to download ringtones for your cellphone, or use in your MP3 player, make sure that you do so legally.

All Seasons Hire rush to the rescue!

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

 

During recent maintenance work on the chiller plant room at a large server room in the centre of London, things started to go wrong and temperatures started rising fast!

The maintenance contractor was faced with overheating servers and potential failure due to the unexpected problems.

The maintenance work was started due to an ongoing problem where several air conditioning compressors had failed; however things really started to heat up when further failures were experienced. All Seasons Hire rushed to site and things were cooled down fast when they installed 20 water cooled 22000btu portable air conditioning pack units. Commercial Director Andy Hamilton stated “the project had gone unexpectedly wrong due to the failure of the fixed chiller units. However we were able to get to site very fast and within 2 hours we had stabilized the server room temperatures. We would normally have installed a portable chiller unit connected to air handling units but there were time and space constraints on site and so we decided to use our water cooled pack units. They are perfect for server room applications, they are water cooled split units capable of delivering 22000btu of cooling and the heat exchanger can be placed as far as 30mtrs from the indoor air conditioning unit”.

All Seasons Hire deliver a wide rang of portable air conditioning and heating solutions; their hire fleet consists of portable air conditioning units from 4kW to 10kW, portable chillers ranging from 20kw to 550kW, air handling units, portable heaters and a wide range of portable electric, oil and gas fired boilers from 22kW to 550kW.

 

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