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在Bruce Keener的Time management with PDAs上看到的两则故事。

The Two-Minute Rule 两分钟规则

The Two-Minute Rule has been as helpful to me as any time management concept I've come across in the past 30 years of my professional life. The Two-Minute Rule is this: if you have an action that can be done in two minutes or less, do it. For example, if you have an item in your in-box that says 'call Billy Bob about status of the deal', do it. Why put an item in your in-box or Tasks list when you can just go ahead and do it almost as quickly? (Managing Tasks)

“两分钟规则”是这样的：如果你有个行动步骤需要花少于两分钟的时间，不要推到后面，马上完成它。例如，如果你有个步骤是“给Bob打电话，告知关于交易的状态”，那么就马上做。如果你能马上做完的事，又为什么要把它加到你的任务列表中等到以后再做呢？

搞定可以马上做完的事情，可以省掉接下来用于思考这件事情的时间。

Eat the frog first 先吃青蛙

Other tricks you can use are to make lists, prioritize items on those lists, and "eat the frog first." This last item relates to the old joke "If you start your morning out by eating a frog, the rest of the day is almost surely going to get better than it started." That is, start your day by doing something you need to do but that you really don't want to do. The rest of the day goes easier and with less stress, partly because you just feel better from getting the task out of the way. (ex-Procrastinating)

你能使用的另一个窍门是做一个清单，并注明优先级别，并且写上“首先吃这只青蛙”。这句话是关于一个老笑话的，如果你一清早由吃青蛙开始，那么剩余的时间几乎肯定是变得更好的。那就是，在一天的开始，做那些你需要做但你又真正地不想做地事情。那么那天的剩余时间就会变得容易和没有压力了，因为你已经扫除了主要障碍。

讲这个笑话的人肯定不喜欢吃青蛙，要我选肯定最先痛苦地把榴莲解决掉。话说回来，“先吃青蛙”也要分场合。比如在考场上，做题的策略可是先易后难。

很多朋友告诉我，说很喜欢我Blog评论的验证方式。也有很多人问是我如何安装的，今天八幺好像也遇到了点问题。看到Nicky写的“讨厌的Spam滚蛋吧”，我也来说说我Blog的Spam解决方案。

在说之前先解释一下什么是“Spam”。“Spam”是英文 Stupid Person Advertising Method （笨蛋的广告方法）的缩写，即通过非法收集电子邮件列表，大量发送垃圾邮件(Spam Email)，恶性推销。其行为侵犯隐私，同时占用大量带宽，造成网络拥塞，严重时会使邮件服务器关闭。

Spam在Blog里则表现为垃圾评论(Comment Spam)、垃圾引用(Trackback Spam)，所以我选用了以下三个插件来对付Spam。

1. Akismet 1.15: 用来拦截垃圾评论。这是WP2.0自带的Anti-spam垃圾评论过滤插件，需要在WordPress.com上注册一个ID，然后获得API key才能正常使用。
2. Simple Trackback Validation 1.1: 用来拦截垃圾引用。这个插件安装也很容易，下载、解压、上传、激活、配置就可以工作了。
3. Math Comment Spam Protection 2.0:利用简单的算术题阻止垃圾留言，留言之前必须要回答一些简单的加法题。

有了Akismet还并不能很好的阻止垃圾评论，所以我在此基础上又加了一个防止机器人的算术插件。做算术题类插件比较好的有两个，Do you pass match和Math Comment Spam Protection。

两者功能都相同，只是在安装和定制上略有不同。Math Comment Spam Protection需要在themes的comments.php中插入一段code，而Do you pass match则不用加任何code，后台激活就可以用了。Math Comment Spam Protection虽然麻烦点，不过能够随意放置到自己想放的地方也挺不错，而且当浏览者做错算术题时，浏览器退回到前一页面浏览者所写的评论还会保留。我的WP因为装了AJAX Comments，这和Math的做错算术题跳转有点冲突，所以回答错问题后评论将不会保留。

Math Comment Spam Protection的安装步骤：

1. Download Latest Version 2.0 下载最新版，解压上传到/wp-content/plugins/。
2. 在后台Plugins激活插件，接着到 Options / Math Comment Spam 配置并保存。
3. 最后一步，添加代码到模版的comments.php的相应位置，一般放在“website URL”下面。如果想像我Blog那样添加中文提示，可以修改代码中的“Spam protection: Sum of”来实现。获取代码请移步插件作者的Blog。

罗嗦到此，有任何问题请留言。今天是感恩节，感谢WordPress，感谢所有WP的插件作者和模版作者，感谢互联网。

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