Does slow equal safe?

 

I once heard an Asian woman describe herself as a safe driver and justifyed this position by her slow driving behaviour... interestingly her naive evaluation of herself is a beautiful example of how wrong our seemingly logical first conclusions can be. Now, lets ask this same question of a driving instructor, they'll give you a different answer. The instructor will explain that speed has little bearing on the quality of a driver pointing out experience, natural driving talent and the ability to quickly ascertain a situation to take the appropriate action are better determinates of a safe driver.

This same phenomenon has been explored by the award winning author Malcolm Gladwell in his book Blink, where he observed that individuals ONLY in their field of expertise can make very accurate decisions in the blink of an eye.

So what is it that you're constantly expounding about and just how qualified in this field are you to make accurate and valid decisions??

 

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Become paperless with Remarks

Want to become paperless, sick of taking note paper with you?

Ok here is the best note taking app I've used...

I've been able to eliminate paper note books with the only thing that I need is my iPad. At meetings I take hand written notes that can be saved, emailed to work mates and draw diagrams to explain concepts!

Working in multiple places I always ended up leaving my notes and files in another place, well no more!

1. You can mark up PDFs and fill in PDF forms
2. Draw or take a note just like you do on paper and with one easy button press email it away.
3. Start new notes fast and easy
4. Sync the notes in your Dropbox

I've tried, noteshelf, notability, penultimate, tapose, skitch, the notes that came with the iPad and a few drawing apps but this is the best so give it a Whirl remarks

Education in New Zealand

Are we doing a good job of educating our children? if you listen to the media and certain politicians you would be lead to believe that our educations system is failing and in dire need of attention. My experience as a parent, board of trustee and mentor with big brothers big sisters would differ. I do not believe that our system is perfect but to make blanket statements that our education system is failing is not helpful. When I observe most of the teachers teaching, and the various people at the school attending to the children, I see very committed and passionate professionals doing a great job.

What would be helpful would be a more supportive community. To drive my point home I would like to firstly define what I mean by community, it involves everyone both as individual citizens and secondly as business owners, teachers, professionals, trades people, politicians and volunteers in charities. As a community citizen we could step up and with personal evolvement at our local school, maybe you're retired and could assist with metal class or turn up and mentor an at risk child, maybe we could lobby government to consider establishing a ministry of children and de establish the ministry of racing! And secondly as professionals, business owners, skilled workers and leaders we could be encouraged to share our good fortune and resources to maintain & tool our already high quality teaching profession.

In summary until we all take responsibility for our children and their well being placing them higher than whales, money, and horse racing we won't see much change other than political tinkering. Thank goodness that the National party last week backed down from their thinly valed effort to cut costs.

 

Stay on mission with Week Cal

This is my first blog attempting to share the beauty and experience of the iPad and the iPhone.

I've now had an iPhone for over 12 months, a 4s for six months and an iPad for a month tested and used over 250 different apps and become reliant on the technology every single day. This has lead me to decide to blog on a regular basis to assist those that enjoy the iPhone and iPad to be more productive and have more fun! 

Week Cal

 

I've decided to rave about this app first, it's the one I've used the longest, has stayed in my main menu since first bought it and use many times aday.

 

Now being a very busy person, with three kids a wife, a cycling addiction and a small business dealing with many clients, I needed a system that organised my time in a graphical manner (see the image) and that could sync with my google calendar without fail. It had to be very reliable and easy to put new calendar entries into as there is very little patience with time tardiness in my industry.

 

Week-cals strength is in three areas, the templates that assist with very fast new entries, the week view and finally the colour coding making it easy to see important meetings on a small screen. The rest of the calendar functions a what you would expect with good calendar, but these features I could not find anywhere else on the app store. Testimony to the quality of the app is that even with a bigger iPad and a computer I still reach for the iPhone with week-cal.