Archive for January, 2007
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Time Management for an undisciplined fellow!
Posted on January 30, 2007 | No CommentsMy efforts to set priorities and work by a schedule were constantly defeated – often leading to a sense of desperation. But funnily, each time I reviewed my priorities for the year, I was more or less working along the lines though I scarcely met my targets day-to-day. I have been thinking of it for a while but started taking it seriously only after talking to a friend who had a similar problem: in the long run, we seem to keep up to a plan, but are erratic in the short run. I guess this is perhaps because of my... -
Google Calendar integrates with Remember the Milk
Posted on January 29, 2007 | 2 CommentsA rather surprising feature about Google calendar is that it does not have a task manager. I recently changed my time management technique from being ‘calendar based’ to ‘list based’ management. In my search for a task management system, I discovered www.rememberthemilk.com – an incredibly well designed utility. It’s online, capable of creating multiple lists, one can specify due dates, estimated time, associate with multiple tags (that are across lists), specify location, and do an assortment of other things. It’s highly keyboard friendly and has a terrific search facility. Oh, I forgot to mention that one can specify status of... -
Using Refworks with Google Scholar
Posted on January 28, 2007 | 2 CommentsIt’s easy to import citations from Google Scholar into Refworks. In order to do this go to “scholar preferences”, a link you will find next to the search box and at the bottom of that page you will find an entry called “Bibliography Manager”. In this, select Refworks (I often end-up choosing a similar sounding thing called “Refman”, take care). Once you save the perferences, you will find a link called “import to refworks” below each search result. The rest is one click away. This though is not entirely trouble free since logging into Refworks should be done only through... -
Manage citations and bibliography with Refworks
Posted on January 28, 2007 | 2 CommentsRefworks Rating: 4 out of 5 Manage citations, create bibliographies quick & easy in any format you want (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.) and keep references organised Note: There is an easier way to cite and it’s free. Check out my note on Zotero citation tool. I have been using Refworks since six months with great satisfaction. It is perhaps one of the most useful and time saving utilities for graduate students working on research papers. The software has two broad components: (1) Database of our references to organise and manage references (2) Utility for easily adding citations to papers that... -
What Indians search for
Posted on January 23, 2007 | No CommentsI was looking for some of the most common terms that people search for online. Not surprisingly cinema and glamour made it right to the top followed closely by sports (see lists below). What did surprise me was “NDTV” was one of the ten most searched words by Indians. There were also a couple of entries for airline websites including Air Deccan and Go Air. Since this is a monthly list, I’d have expected some non-entertainment issues such as Jessica Lal’s murder trial or Noida serial killings to make it to the top – but that’s not the case. It’s... -
School feeding as a global obligation
Posted on January 18, 2007 | No CommentsIt is now a well accepted rights have corresponding obligations. Such obligations are traditionally placed on national governments and other regional actors and never on international bodies. George Kent’s edited book Global obligation for the right to food explores the question of global obligations. In a chapter that I published in this book, I argue that if school feeding is desirable and suitable as a global obligation. Citation: S. Vivek, “School feeding as a global obligation,” in Global obligation for the right to food, ed. George Kent (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). Click here to download.
