I found this page on Karriere Manager Magazin that'll tell you if what you are being paid is adapted to your qualifications, by comparing it to what the salaries on the market are. You'll have to take a test in the form of a questionnaire. The results are the analysis made of your answers by a specialized institute (which name you'll find on the page). I am pretty sure this test is only valid for Germany. I didn't take the test. First of all I don't care at all at this stage of my career, Secondly I am not ready to pay the 10 euros :D
Hope it'll be of use to some of you.
Marwane El Kharbili.
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Showing posts with label Web. Show all posts
Nov 10, 2010
Oct 11, 2010
Project Reality Check
A friend of mine (Jean-Michel) sent me this link. I found it very funny so I am writing this post about it, I am sure you will find it interesting too. Although the page is in German, you don't need to understand what is written, just look at the images, it's always easier :D
So the pages is entitled "advertisement against reality". You can see 100 products of all sorts, and compare the advertisement photos or the images on the packages when you buy the product, with how the product really looks like. I'm telling you, the comparison is astonishing. I realized that what I buy is not what I use, eat or wear, but what is represented in the beautiful and bright images that we are bombarded with though advertisements. This is how marketing manipulates us.
Marwane El Kharbili.
So the pages is entitled "advertisement against reality". You can see 100 products of all sorts, and compare the advertisement photos or the images on the packages when you buy the product, with how the product really looks like. I'm telling you, the comparison is astonishing. I realized that what I buy is not what I use, eat or wear, but what is represented in the beautiful and bright images that we are bombarded with though advertisements. This is how marketing manipulates us.
Marwane El Kharbili.
May 25, 2009
The meaning of life
A very funny prank. Unfortunately it is in German, so I will try to translate the joke. This is an imitation of a search engine, where the entered search string is: "the meaning of life". So click here to access the page.
Underneath it you have got two buttons, the first one is labelled "advertisement", the second one "reality". If you click on "advertisement" you get normal search results from google. But is you click on "reality", you get a ... very interesting result: the one-sentence answer to the question: What is the meaning of life?
The answer is very funny. For the lucky German-speakers, hope you'll like it. For those of you who don't understand German, I will write the translated answer as a comment :D
Marwane El Kharbili.
Underneath it you have got two buttons, the first one is labelled "advertisement", the second one "reality". If you click on "advertisement" you get normal search results from google. But is you click on "reality", you get a ... very interesting result: the one-sentence answer to the question: What is the meaning of life?
The answer is very funny. For the lucky German-speakers, hope you'll like it. For those of you who don't understand German, I will write the translated answer as a comment :D
Marwane El Kharbili.
May 7, 2009
Project Reality Check
A friend of mine (Jean-Michel) sent me this link. I found it very funny so I am writing this post about it, I am sure you will find it interesting too. Although the page is in German, you don't need to understand what is written, just look at the images, it's always easier :D
So the pages is entitled "advertisement against reality". You can see 100 products of all sorts, and compare the advertisement photos or the images on the packages when you buy the product, with how the product really looks like. I'm telling you, the comparison is astonishing. I realized that what I buy is not what I use, eat or wear, but what is represented in the beautiful and bright images that we are bombarded with though advertisements. This is how marketing manipulates us.
Marwane El Kharbili.
So the pages is entitled "advertisement against reality". You can see 100 products of all sorts, and compare the advertisement photos or the images on the packages when you buy the product, with how the product really looks like. I'm telling you, the comparison is astonishing. I realized that what I buy is not what I use, eat or wear, but what is represented in the beautiful and bright images that we are bombarded with though advertisements. This is how marketing manipulates us.
Marwane El Kharbili.
Jan 9, 2009
Finn by Jon Clinch
I bet most of today's generation have at least one common point with generations before them. The stories and adventures of Huckleberry Finn (in the same way as tom sawyer accompanied many hours of my life) have transcended years and the book is one of these master pieces that belong to human genius. Mark Twain seemed as if he could read my mind more than a hundred years before my birth. The anger, hardness, sometimes sweet sadness and invincible spirit of freedom that flows through a child's veins sitting in the garden of his parents' house in morocco, under this beautiful eternal sun and that soooo blue sky or my dear country, are transmitted to him by a man who lived long before in a country far to the west, far far away to a child's mind.
Well, have you ever wondered what is the story behind this dark and mysterious figure of Mr. Finn, Huckleberry's father? The name of this man used to awake deep rage and fear at the same time as I was a child. But I guess I have to thank this character because he certainly helped me get under the skin of Huckleberry and intensely live his adventures as if they were mine. Jon Clinch offers us one door into the soul of this unforgettable character, that is of Finn. Jon Clinch published a book, entitled "Finn" that tells the story of Huckleberry's father, grand-father, uncle, and Finn's mistress. Even the young Huck is depicted as a child in all its complexity, just opening up and facing a full-of-fear and ugly world.
This book transports the one who still have some small piece of Huckleberry Finn in themselves into the intrigues, violent and dangerous life stories taking place near an ever-present and silent Mississippi. The book is already on my book shelf, in my virtual shelfari library.
You can check the website for the book here. You will get much information about Huckleberry, Mark Twain, about the book itself and the author Jon Clich.
Marwane El Kharbili.
Well, have you ever wondered what is the story behind this dark and mysterious figure of Mr. Finn, Huckleberry's father? The name of this man used to awake deep rage and fear at the same time as I was a child. But I guess I have to thank this character because he certainly helped me get under the skin of Huckleberry and intensely live his adventures as if they were mine. Jon Clinch offers us one door into the soul of this unforgettable character, that is of Finn. Jon Clinch published a book, entitled "Finn" that tells the story of Huckleberry's father, grand-father, uncle, and Finn's mistress. Even the young Huck is depicted as a child in all its complexity, just opening up and facing a full-of-fear and ugly world.
This book transports the one who still have some small piece of Huckleberry Finn in themselves into the intrigues, violent and dangerous life stories taking place near an ever-present and silent Mississippi. The book is already on my book shelf, in my virtual shelfari library.
You can check the website for the book here. You will get much information about Huckleberry, Mark Twain, about the book itself and the author Jon Clich.
Marwane El Kharbili.
Oct 6, 2008
Vote for a cause on Tripadvisor.com
Vote for a cause on tripadvisor.com and help them donate one million dollar to a world cause!
I have just fulfilled my duty as a human being and cituzen of the world and voted for my preferate NGO, so do the same. You even get a small 9 pages long green holiday trip booklet by email.
Link: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Causes.
Marwane El Kharbili
I have just fulfilled my duty as a human being and cituzen of the world and voted for my preferate NGO, so do the same. You even get a small 9 pages long green holiday trip booklet by email.
Link: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Causes.
Marwane El Kharbili
Sep 19, 2008
L'amour a la marocaine...
J'ai toujours ete un facon de l'humour noir bien sombre et mechant, a la sauce ironie acide... Bon, c'est peut-etre une facon un peu extreme de voir les choses :D Mais pour en venir au sujet, il s'agit de l'amour au maroc. Vous me direz, mais l'amour...c'est une chose universelle, tout le monde doit connaitre, tout le monde doit avoir des idees similaires sur le sujet...Non, les marocains, pour ceux qui ne les connaissent pas, sont une sous-espece du genre humain qu'aucune science connue ne pourrait ni comprendre ni expliquer. Les journalistes de TelQuel, periodique que j'adore tout simplement, avec lesquels je ne suis pas d'accord sur un nombre de choses, surtout lorsqu'il s'agit de religion, avaient ecrit une chronique il y a 3 ans sur l'amour au maroc. ceux qui connaissent le style des petits gars de TelQuel ne seront pas surpris par le melange d'ironie et de serieux avec lequel ils parlent de la chose. cette ironie qui nous est bien propre nouspermet de rire de nos problemes, de nos defauts et de nos peurs sans pour autant deprimer ou penser au suicide, c'est la solution miracle qui a permis au marocains de survivre a des siecles d'histoire mouvante. Done tout cela, c'est pour vous motiver a jeter un coup d'oeil a l'article en ligne de TelQuel: Les marocains et l'amour. Bonne lecture!
Marwane El Kharbili.
Marwane El Kharbili.
Sep 6, 2008
Check your nerdiness!
On Dr. gernot Starke's blog (IT & more), I discovered a link to a page evaluating one's own nerdiness score. I decided I had no problem with that and that I would be very curious to know what my score would be. I do not think being nerdy is a bad thing, I even appreciate working with nerds. I have to say because of my background I have been in contact with many of them, but a lot less now that I have started my professional career. Nerds are actually very funny people, and most of them have very specific views on the world and on people. It is always very interesting to talk to nerds, but you certainly have got to come from the same background as them, at least to understand what they are saying and be able to discuss with them.
I will say nothing about the questions you'll get, so you'll be able to be surprised. But the questions are really asked by a nerd, although these questions are really primary class level for a real nerd, i.e. they are extremely easy and quick to answer if you have at least been a nerd or lived and spent much time around nerds :D
One thing before I tell the results, I have been trying for years to quit my short but intensive nerdy times and I really answered intuitively, as quick as possibel and most of all, honestly (means that I answered what I think and not what I know a nerd would answer). So I took the test and....my score is...:
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High-Level Nerd. You are definitely MIT material, apply now!!!.
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Lol, isn't that funny....euuh...I guess only a nerd would find this funny...ok, ok, it's not funny :D
Oh and now my score is from now on to be seen for ever on my blog, look for it!
Marwane El Kharbili.
PS: If you are really a nerd, then this website is for you: plenty of nerd tests.
I will say nothing about the questions you'll get, so you'll be able to be surprised. But the questions are really asked by a nerd, although these questions are really primary class level for a real nerd, i.e. they are extremely easy and quick to answer if you have at least been a nerd or lived and spent much time around nerds :D
One thing before I tell the results, I have been trying for years to quit my short but intensive nerdy times and I really answered intuitively, as quick as possibel and most of all, honestly (means that I answered what I think and not what I know a nerd would answer). So I took the test and....my score is...:
______________________________________________
Overall, you scored as follows:
16% scored higher (more nerdy),
1% scored the same, and
83% scored lower (less nerdy).
High-Level Nerd. You are definitely MIT material, apply now!!!.
______________________________________________
Lol, isn't that funny....euuh...I guess only a nerd would find this funny...ok, ok, it's not funny :D
Oh and now my score is from now on to be seen for ever on my blog, look for it!
Marwane El Kharbili.
PS: If you are really a nerd, then this website is for you: plenty of nerd tests.
Sep 2, 2008
Google's protocol buffers
Google made its protocol buffers language publicly available. Our american pals have been using this data description language internally for a long time and because of its simplicity and thus ease (and speed) of processing has quite some advantages when compared to XML. If you only need a simple serialization data format to convey information and do not need complex processing techniques, then you might wanna have a look at protocol buffers. Protocol buffers provides simple models: lists and records while making the size of data necessary to encode information 3 to 10 times smaller than XML-based formats (dialects). Parsing is said to be 20 to 100 times quicker. Using the simple list and record structures, it is possible to generate classes in a target language such as python or java or any language of choice in order to write logic for those structures.
The language has now gone open source. So something similar to IDL but google guys say it is not as complicated. See google's announcement here and the page of the project on google code here, where you can among other things download the project.
Marwane El Kharbili
Source: JournalDuNet: http://www.journaldunet.com/developpeur/breve/international/29225/google-propose-une-alternative-a-xml.shtml
The language has now gone open source. So something similar to IDL but google guys say it is not as complicated. See google's announcement here and the page of the project on google code here, where you can among other things download the project.
Marwane El Kharbili
Source: JournalDuNet: http://www.journaldunet.com/developpeur/breve/international/29225/google-propose-une-alternative-a-xml.shtml
Jul 31, 2008
Learn Project Management in 15 Minutes
This is the title of the free offer by Bar de Baas, the owner of my preferred project management website, SoftwareProjects.Org, actually the only one I have selected the RSS feed of and bookmarked because of the quality of the content. The title sounds like one of those hit and flashy larketing slogans for cheap books. But this shouldn't drive you in an error, underestimating the author and hos website might be a big one. The page to learn project management in 15 minutes contains three videos that'll introduce you to the conceptions of the author about project management. Bas de Baar also has several books to the topics and many many posts on the topic on his dedicated website. I am sure you'll enjoy some pretty entertaining and informative views on project management.
Marwane El Kharbili
Marwane El Kharbili
Jul 24, 2008
Some Python IDEs
Following a discussion with some colleagues about python, I decided to write a short article about it. I have the feeling not many Python fans are around, honestly I can't understand it, but again this judgment is highly subjective, since I pretty much like everything about the language, including the syntax and tabs interpretation, all available data structures, the flexible object orientation, dynamic typing, readability, the many libraries to do pretty much anything, the possibility to embed components written in other languages such as C and TKinter. And if you are not convinced, have a look at Zope, Plone and Peak. If you've been using internet in the last 10 years, you can't have missed on these.
One of the main critics of one of my colleagues was that he didn't know of a suitable IDE for developing python programs. that annoyed me somewhat since I know of many, which are even both free and open-source, at least in some versions. My preferate IDE was alway SPE's Python IDS. You can download it here. I have been developing on SPE for 3 years now, although not much in later time because of lack of time. SPE offers you pretty much everything you expect from an IDE, no need to list them all. Just download it, install it and test some scripts and classes. You can even try to quickly write some graphical user interfaces using TKinter or WxWidgets. Here is a website where you can get started although I personally have started using the official page, which documentation I find very well done. And hop, another link to a repository of open source software written in python repository. Python is fun!
Marwane El Kharbili.
One of the main critics of one of my colleagues was that he didn't know of a suitable IDE for developing python programs. that annoyed me somewhat since I know of many, which are even both free and open-source, at least in some versions. My preferate IDE was alway SPE's Python IDS. You can download it here. I have been developing on SPE for 3 years now, although not much in later time because of lack of time. SPE offers you pretty much everything you expect from an IDE, no need to list them all. Just download it, install it and test some scripts and classes. You can even try to quickly write some graphical user interfaces using TKinter or WxWidgets. Here is a website where you can get started although I personally have started using the official page, which documentation I find very well done. And hop, another link to a repository of open source software written in python repository. Python is fun!
Marwane El Kharbili.
May 19, 2008
What does iLOG do?
In this article by Simon holloway (Senior Analyst, Bloor research) on iLOG. I am not going to copy paste the post or try to analyze it, since there is nothing to analyze. Simon Holloway gives an overview on the activities of iLOG, which simply answers the question: "What is really the business of iLOG"? iLOG is a french company with headquarters in both France and the USA. iLOG is mostly known for their business rules management product JRules.
I appreciated the structured description of the various business iLOG is at the front of: operations research optimization, constraints programming, business rules management (with three tools, one for Java, one for C++ and one for .NET), and the one I didn't know about, which are visualization products. after the recent acquisition of another company, iLOG now have a set of supply chain management products. Simon Holloway notes that with such a line of products, iLOG have now a solution and not just a set of products as until now. Last point are the many industrial partnerships iLOG has, among others with Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle. So iLOG with their 800 employees are up on quite some fronts.
Marwane El Kharbili.
I appreciated the structured description of the various business iLOG is at the front of: operations research optimization, constraints programming, business rules management (with three tools, one for Java, one for C++ and one for .NET), and the one I didn't know about, which are visualization products. after the recent acquisition of another company, iLOG now have a set of supply chain management products. Simon Holloway notes that with such a line of products, iLOG have now a solution and not just a set of products as until now. Last point are the many industrial partnerships iLOG has, among others with Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle. So iLOG with their 800 employees are up on quite some fronts.
Marwane El Kharbili.
May 15, 2008
Securiy Requirements Engineering PhD & PostDoc
I wanted to make some advertisement for a double vacancy at the department of computer and information science at the NTNU (Trondheim, Norway). One position is a PhD position and the second one is a Post-Doc position. Both positions are ensured for 3 years (August 2008 - July 2011) and comprehend work on a new project, the ReqSec project. The projects seeks to come up with a methodology and tools for security requirements engineering.
The topic of security engineering is ons that I am interested a lot into, and I believe that we are are far behind on security issues from a software engineering point of view. One of my probable future directions of research (which I had talked about with my professor even before starting my PhD) is security modeling for business process management. the motivation: Security requirements do not solely appear on the lowest layers of software development, many types of security concerns get their requirements and partial specifications from the business and strategic layers of an enterprise model.
The ITMEE faculty of the Trondheim university is a leading university in computer science of which I know from personal experience. Some of my classmates at the ENSIMAG in Grenoble, went to the university of Trondheim in the same year I went from Grenoble to Karlsruhe. Several research institutes in applied mathematics and computer science also exist in Trondheim, some of them private. I don't know much about Norway or Trondheim itself but I guess if you're into nordic charm and love mountains, forests, Fjords and the see you should be happy there. Like Morocco, Norway is a kingdom too.
N.B.: [IT @ NTNU] Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
Marwane El Kharbili.
The topic of security engineering is ons that I am interested a lot into, and I believe that we are are far behind on security issues from a software engineering point of view. One of my probable future directions of research (which I had talked about with my professor even before starting my PhD) is security modeling for business process management. the motivation: Security requirements do not solely appear on the lowest layers of software development, many types of security concerns get their requirements and partial specifications from the business and strategic layers of an enterprise model.
The ITMEE faculty of the Trondheim university is a leading university in computer science of which I know from personal experience. Some of my classmates at the ENSIMAG in Grenoble, went to the university of Trondheim in the same year I went from Grenoble to Karlsruhe. Several research institutes in applied mathematics and computer science also exist in Trondheim, some of them private. I don't know much about Norway or Trondheim itself but I guess if you're into nordic charm and love mountains, forests, Fjords and the see you should be happy there. Like Morocco, Norway is a kingdom too.
N.B.: [IT @ NTNU] Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
Marwane El Kharbili.
May 13, 2008
An online community for BPEL
You can find it here. A community around BPEL hosted by the OASIS, sponsored by BEA and IBM.
On the site you will find a knowledge WIKI, Forums, News, Events, Products, Job Offers and Blogs.Documentation and white papers are there to be found too. I discovered the site accidentally because they put my Blog on their blogroll. I applied for an account and got the RSS feed on my feed burner (integrated in my Flock browser). For the moment I haven't found much on the website in terms of blogs but it is clearly a recent site and it needs time to mature and grow. I will make some advertisement for the site in my network and try to get some poeple working with BPEL to post on the site.
Marwane El Kharbili.
On the site you will find a knowledge WIKI, Forums, News, Events, Products, Job Offers and Blogs.Documentation and white papers are there to be found too. I discovered the site accidentally because they put my Blog on their blogroll. I applied for an account and got the RSS feed on my feed burner (integrated in my Flock browser). For the moment I haven't found much on the website in terms of blogs but it is clearly a recent site and it needs time to mature and grow. I will make some advertisement for the site in my network and try to get some poeple working with BPEL to post on the site.
Marwane El Kharbili.
May 9, 2008
Ruleburst, Haley, and the business rules market
After having acquired US Business Rules vendors Haley (See this official Press release from the 14th of November 2007), Ruleburst have rebranded as Haley Limited (See corresponding Press release of the 10th of March 2008). Haley is a recognized business rules vendor in the united states. This confirms the strategic importance of growth in the US market by the Australian natural language business rules specialist.
Haley's flagship products (2 among several products by Haley) have both rebranded:
Marwane El Kharbili.
Haley's flagship products (2 among several products by Haley) have both rebranded:
- Ruleburst Studio (a natural language based business rules management system that integrates with the office suite) as Haley Office Rules.
- HaleyAuthority (collaborative capture and management of business rules) rebrands as Haley Expert Rules.
Marwane El Kharbili.
May 6, 2008
Google App Engine
I just wanted to drop a line here about the recent release of the Google App Engine. If you are curious to know what it is then have a look at the introduction to the application environment here. Google App Engine ist "Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure", quote from the project's documentation home. The goal is the following: you as a user develop your application that should run on the Google App Engine runtime environment. For this you can use the development environment that is delivered by google for that purpose. For the moment it only supports Python but is destined to be extended to other programming/Scripting languages. I personnaly am a great fan of python, which I have bee using for 4 years now, and it's number 2 for after JAVA. But the language I would love to see is ruby, another language I am a big fan of. After the application has been developed you can run it on the net using the Google App Engine (from the appspot.com domain) or use Google Apps to serve the application from your own domain [source: project's documentation home]. Google App Engine provides you with a scalable infrastructure for your project to run:
Finally I would like to put some attentions on sebastian's blog article, where he reports on attempts to use the GAE (Google App Engine) and draws some conclusions about the use of it from a practical point of view. Note that it is in German.
Marwane El Kharbili
- dynamic web serving,
- persistent storage with transactions, automatic scaling and load balancing (500MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month [source: project's documentation home])
- APIs for authenticating users and sending email using Google Accounts
- and a local development environment that simulates Google App Engine on your computer [source: project's documentation home].
Finally I would like to put some attentions on sebastian's blog article, where he reports on attempts to use the GAE (Google App Engine) and draws some conclusions about the use of it from a practical point of view. Note that it is in German.
Marwane El Kharbili
May 2, 2008
Have you got a PhD Blog too?
I had previously registered my blog on PhDWeblogs.net. The idea behind this is to make the blog accessible to people also doing a PhD or just simply having interest in research, who do not necessarily share the same interests I have in computer science and economics. Last week I stumbled upon this other website, which looks like way more accessible and better done: http://www.wissenschafts-cafe.net/. Apart from having an very appealing name, the site covers several disciplines and offers a number of services to bloggers. You can enter a description and a link to your blog, and make it accessible from the website to other people interested in what you are doing. I even got the hard bloggin' scientist sticker of the website's creator on my blog.
Have fun!
Marwane El Kharbili.
Have fun!
Marwane El Kharbili.
Apr 21, 2008
Sebastian's PhD Blog
A quick link to Sebastian's PhD blog here. Sebastian is also a researcher and an engineer here at the IDS Scheer working on his PhD too. Sebastian started his PhD a little more than a year and a half earlier than me, and thus tutored me during the first couple of months of my Phd by providing me with tips and introducing me to the research projects we are working on. Sebastian is now in the last sprint phase of his PhD. He is working on nicely finishing and packaging his dissertation and writing the final document. I wish him lots of luck and lots of energy in this last phase, which is the most intensive and tiring phase of a PhD, both mentally and physically.
In his blog, Sebastian discusses a number of subjects, quite various I have to say, which gives a little insight into his interests. You'll find PhD and research related posts, posts about topics of interest such as SOA, and technical posts. You'll also find some posts about quite different things such as medicine, tech or trip reports such as the one about the Kilimanjaro ascension.
It is also accessible through the permalink in my blogroll list. So make sure you have checked this out.
Marwane El Kharbili
In his blog, Sebastian discusses a number of subjects, quite various I have to say, which gives a little insight into his interests. You'll find PhD and research related posts, posts about topics of interest such as SOA, and technical posts. You'll also find some posts about quite different things such as medicine, tech or trip reports such as the one about the Kilimanjaro ascension.
It is also accessible through the permalink in my blogroll list. So make sure you have checked this out.
Marwane El Kharbili
Apr 15, 2008
I am an evening man
On this website, I have found an article about the two different kinds of people. There are morning people and evening people. The page introduces these and contains three curves. One curve showing the medium performance curve (for the hypothetic "normal" person), the performance curve for an evening man, and a curve for the morning man. The evening man reaches his peak of productivity at around 22:00 O'Clock! The morning man on the opposite at around 08:00 O'clock. Somehow, this doesn't surprise me at all...
So the website advises the following to the evening man. Important and complicated tasks should be done during afternoon. The peak of productivity being between 14:00 and 18:00 at around 16:00. Routine tasks should be done in the morning, to get started. complex tasks should be always prepared the day before, during the evening. I already came up to the point where I put most of these tips in use, since I had to cope and find ways of optimizing with my unorthodox working methods since high school.
A morning man should be at work pretty early and profit from the time where most colleagues are not yet there to do complicated tasks. I know of some colleagues I had in the numerous companies I worked in (in several countries) who come to work before seven. The only question I have is how do they do with children, do they drop them at school at 06:30? Routine tasks should be done during the afternoon. The morning man has an overall decreasing productivity curve over the whole day. The earlier the better for him. Towards mid-afternoon, it is the end, he'd better go home :D
So I am clearly an evening man. This explains quite a lot of things to me. For example, my strong tendency to stay late at night is shown on the graphic. my only questions is where did they get the figures from? I would be very curious to know the whereabouts of the study. That could help a lot of people.
Marwane El Kharbili.
So the website advises the following to the evening man. Important and complicated tasks should be done during afternoon. The peak of productivity being between 14:00 and 18:00 at around 16:00. Routine tasks should be done in the morning, to get started. complex tasks should be always prepared the day before, during the evening. I already came up to the point where I put most of these tips in use, since I had to cope and find ways of optimizing with my unorthodox working methods since high school.
A morning man should be at work pretty early and profit from the time where most colleagues are not yet there to do complicated tasks. I know of some colleagues I had in the numerous companies I worked in (in several countries) who come to work before seven. The only question I have is how do they do with children, do they drop them at school at 06:30? Routine tasks should be done during the afternoon. The morning man has an overall decreasing productivity curve over the whole day. The earlier the better for him. Towards mid-afternoon, it is the end, he'd better go home :D
So I am clearly an evening man. This explains quite a lot of things to me. For example, my strong tendency to stay late at night is shown on the graphic. my only questions is where did they get the figures from? I would be very curious to know the whereabouts of the study. That could help a lot of people.
Marwane El Kharbili.
Mar 24, 2008
I am Brain Balanced!
What is he talking about?...(laughs), no I am not crazy and I do not take pills :D
I did one test more on tickle. Tickle is a great website where you can take all sorts of tests about all aspects of your personality. I often asked myself about where they get all those ideas from. well, they don't seem to have a problem with that. and the quality of the tests and the generated results are very good. They have a team of PhD psychologists who write the tests. Test vary, from your sports type, your perfect job, your IQ or your emotional IQ, to your brain type or your artist type. Tests are usually pretty long, from 5 to 12 pages, and it can take from 10 minutes to 20 minutes to complete one. But the results are worth it. Results contain a detailed analysis of the results of the test from a number of perspectives and even a list of scientific references, which at first really surprised me. Results are from 7 to 10 pages long, and they are written in really small characters. Tests are usually not free, but they regularly put tests online for members for free for a limited period of time. I never paid for any test. But I still did many on their site.
Now to the topic of this entry: in my case both halves of my brain work equally. This is the abstract of my result:
"That means you are able to draw on the strengths of both the right and left hemispheres of your brain, depending upon a given situation.
When you need to explain a complicated process to someone, or plan a detailed vacation, the left hemisphere of your brain, which is responsible for your ability to solve problems logically, might kick in. But if you were critiquing an art opening or coming up with an original way to file papers, the right side of your brain, which is responsible for noticing subtle details in things, might take over.
While many people have clearly dominant left- or right-brained tendencies, you are able to draw on skills from both hemispheres of your brain. This rare combination makes you a very creative and flexible thinker.
The down side to being balanced-brained is that you may sometimes feel paralyzed by indecision when the two hemispheres of your brain are competing to solve a problem in their own unique ways."
Oh, I forgot, you also have access to a community of users with which you can chat and exchange results of tests, or simply see them if you won't. I got to know some really special persons on tickle. So, do you think about getting on tickle?
Marwane El Kharbili.
I did one test more on tickle. Tickle is a great website where you can take all sorts of tests about all aspects of your personality. I often asked myself about where they get all those ideas from. well, they don't seem to have a problem with that. and the quality of the tests and the generated results are very good. They have a team of PhD psychologists who write the tests. Test vary, from your sports type, your perfect job, your IQ or your emotional IQ, to your brain type or your artist type. Tests are usually pretty long, from 5 to 12 pages, and it can take from 10 minutes to 20 minutes to complete one. But the results are worth it. Results contain a detailed analysis of the results of the test from a number of perspectives and even a list of scientific references, which at first really surprised me. Results are from 7 to 10 pages long, and they are written in really small characters. Tests are usually not free, but they regularly put tests online for members for free for a limited period of time. I never paid for any test. But I still did many on their site.
Now to the topic of this entry: in my case both halves of my brain work equally. This is the abstract of my result:
"That means you are able to draw on the strengths of both the right and left hemispheres of your brain, depending upon a given situation.
When you need to explain a complicated process to someone, or plan a detailed vacation, the left hemisphere of your brain, which is responsible for your ability to solve problems logically, might kick in. But if you were critiquing an art opening or coming up with an original way to file papers, the right side of your brain, which is responsible for noticing subtle details in things, might take over.
While many people have clearly dominant left- or right-brained tendencies, you are able to draw on skills from both hemispheres of your brain. This rare combination makes you a very creative and flexible thinker.
The down side to being balanced-brained is that you may sometimes feel paralyzed by indecision when the two hemispheres of your brain are competing to solve a problem in their own unique ways."
Oh, I forgot, you also have access to a community of users with which you can chat and exchange results of tests, or simply see them if you won't. I got to know some really special persons on tickle. So, do you think about getting on tickle?
Marwane El Kharbili.
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