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Re: Secret to Developing a Power Punch

Niels Gouman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:08:03 -0000

I believe in karate this is a very common technique ;)
or at least at the 2 schools that I practice at.. one begin wado-ryu karate and the other shinkyokushin karate
you could try searching for those

I know in karate (especially shinkykushin karate) we tend to practice kicks the same way, to make them "snap" since it's obviously alot faster and thus more powerful

I must advice to really take it slow at first, get the normal punch under control before even trying. I know first hand that it could seriously injure you for a couple of weeks if something goes wrong

Re: Secret to Developing a Power Punch

Niels Gouman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:13:14 -0000

I'd like to confirm the board theory, I've done that last week :)

kind of weird though seeing the front board being fine and I was thinking "damn I didn't get them"

Re: Why you should use RSS

Niels Gouman — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:23:47 -0000

Did you like it? :)

Re: Why Are You Here?

Niels Gouman — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:43:45 -0000

Nice timing, this question is really bothering me lately

Mainly the why do you go to school
The best reason I've come up with is: I want to obtain a "masters" degree because that just sounds awesome

I believe it's reason enough, but the guy who did the interview was really suprised that this was my only reason. apparently most people actually think they go to school because they could get a job that way.

I believe there's very little jobs you actually need a school for..
.-= Nizzle´s last blog ..Nederlandsering =-.

Re: Throw Away Your TV

Niels Gouman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:33:29 -0000

..or sell it!

Anyway, awesome post. I've been telling people this for a while now, I hope you convince some people that TV is making them stupid.
.-= Nizzle´s last blog ..Nederlandsering =-.

Re: ZCL College Posts of The Month: August 2009

Niels Gouman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:10:00 -0000

Thanks, I liked some of those :-)

Re: Waarom zijn er niet meer Macs in het bedrijfsleven?

Niels Gouman — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:19:22 -0000

Ook dat lijkt me een veel beter idee dan de huidige situatie!
Al is het bij linux wel zo dat soms de vertaling niet helemaal geweldig is, ik zit daar niet zo mee maar afhankelijk van het bedrijf kan het een probleem vormen.

Re: ZCL Asks: How Do You Automate You Life?

Niels Gouman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:16:57 -0000

Please do write a new post when you've found some good automation :-)

As for me I've got my email fully automated - I've got several addresses which all get together in one account, gets filtered there and sorted with the right labels and everything. very little email actually manages to get in my inbox :-)

I use TextExpander as "auto-text program"

I use a RSS reader

Most of my financial stuff is automated

I have a few recurring tasks in Things for Mac, which gets synced with my iPhone

I use Google Calendar so I always have my agenda with me, in sync - this also has recurring evens

Music in my iTunes library automagically gets proper tags using "SongGenie"

I use SABNZBd+ with a RSS feed to automatically download some tv shows I'd like to watch

I do all of my notes with Evernote, which will sync it with my computer, laptop and iphone - also it adds text recognition so I can easely search through handwritten notes

Re: ZCL Asks: How Do You Automate You Life?

Niels Gouman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:14:35 -0000

I even know a full business which has gone to the so called "paperless office", using evernote

Re: The Mistake That Will Cost You Millions

Niels Gouman — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:21:23 -0000

Whoa that image is quite stunning

Re: Secret to Developing a Power Punch

Niels Gouman — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:18:39 -0000

"Dim Mak" might give you some interesting results

Re: The Big Ass RSS Button!

Niels Gouman — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:01:24 -0000

I've had it in my RSS for quite a while already ;-)
great posts most of the time, a bit too much text for my liking sometimes though..

BTW aren't RSS buttons supposed to be orange?

Re: Free E-Book!

Niels Gouman — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:03:10 -0000

I'm subscribed through RSS, any chance you could send me the book some other way?
I don't like email subscriptions.. =(

Re: The Big Ass RSS Button!

Niels Gouman — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:43:51 -0000

I've found it - http://www.mozilla.org/foun...
I couldn't find anything about black not being allowed, but the orignal/official is orange.. that should explain why everyone uses it I guess

and don't worry too much about the length, if the subject interests me enough it get read.. eventually

Re: FIRST!!!1!!!1!

Niels Gouman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:36:01 -0000

I too use Google Calendar :-)
besides that I also use Things for both my Mac and iPhone

and Evernote! can't forget the awesomeness of that elephant

Re: Note Taking in Lectures

Niels Gouman — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:50:28 -0000

ooh! I'll go try that, maybe that'll push me enough to actually take notes

Re: College Tech, pt 1-communications platforms

Niels Gouman — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:01:53 -0000

I was hoping for a bit more, but that might come in the next pts :-)

I do suggest a couple more
Boxcar is genious if you have an iPhone and use Twitter a lot http://boxcar.io/
Google Wave could be useful but I've only got 2 contacts that use it, so that'll be for a later time
DropBox can be used with shared folders which is nice if you have to work on something together with a team (and no hassle for backups and version control)

Also Google Docs (as long as you don't have Wave), Evernote, Things and RSS - but I don't know in what pt they should be :)

Re: Note Taking in Lectures

Niels Gouman — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:00:26 -0000

so far I have managed to survive without them :-)

then again just started a new school a month ago and I've noticed that this one might require some more work

Re: Note Taking in Lectures

Niels Gouman — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:38:15 -0000

Really it's actually a lot easier than you'd think

In class just pay attention, really listen (enough articles about that), think about what's being said/shown and how you could make sense out of that
it's not about what's being said but what you should be able to do with that info, think about that and try to think of your own examples

I'd like to think that it's is about learning something
schools tend to forget this and focus on letting you do stuff and grade that, or even worse they'll test whether or not you remember stuff they said

Knowledge is overrated in the age of the internet..

Re: Top 6 Free Computer Tricks

Niels Gouman — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:50:30 -0000

Ha! :)

I just had a chat with a friend of mine about this

basicly came down to this:
- Dropbox while using symlinks is the most awesome thing ever
- Soocial for keeping contacts in sync everywhere
- Evernote, Gmail, Google Reader and Google calendar for obvious reasons

Re: Top 6 Free Computer Tricks

Niels Gouman — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:19:47 -0000

http://www.macosxhints.com/...

Re: A Quick Thanks

Niels Gouman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:15:20 -0000

Oooh! I have that book, have yet to read it though..

kind of interested in the improved kicking, where do I get that?

Re: A Quick Thanks

Niels Gouman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:11:16 -0000

I'm subscribed through RSS, I'll go and send you an email :)

Re: Learn About The People You Want To Be Like

Niels Gouman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:17:35 -0000

I'm studying absolutely nobody, nor would I want to

As said by Bruce Lee "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not you go out and look for a successfull personality an duplicate it"

I feel that figuring shit out for yourself is far more important than actually knowing it
sure I could go idiolize somebody (let's take Bruce Lee since I quoted him) and try to be more like him, but wouldn't that make me some sort of wannabe?
and everybody knows a wannabe Bruce Lee isn't quite it, thus failing to be him, making me a failure even before I'd try

Now if I would just be myself, knowing I'm awesome as hell, I could do whatever and never fail before even doing anything

sure you could use others as comparison to ask "how would they do it?" but you should always end up with your own method of things, whether you'd be better than them or not at least it's your own and you truly understand it

Re: Learn About The People You Want To Be Like

Niels Gouman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:06:02 -0000

If given the chance: yes I would just punch the gas and figure out what to do by myself, I would compare the results and figure out where to improve. I could read general stuff about racing to help me figure out where and how to improve but I would never mimic

if you'd say: use some person's work/teaching/examples/whatever as guidance to improve, then I'd say sure
if you'd say: mimic someone to be of the same greatness and then try to improve, then I'd say absolutely not

it's like replica watches (or tshirts or whatever): probably exactly the same, maybe a bit better/worse but never even close to being "the real thing"
I can't name one single replica brand, whilst I would know some of the real, and I do know I've seen plenty of them

oh and another note: if you're busy trying to copy other people's skills all the time, what would you do when you've got it down perfectly? it's not like you could be better than them since you've never figured something out by yourself, you'd have to wait until someone else figures something out and then copy that again. I think you'd never be the best, sure you could be great but never the best..