Archive | September, 2009
A slow blog is a good blog, or is it?
It won’t have gone unnoticed by now that my posting frequency has dropped dramatically. There is a high correlation between this phenomenon and the hours I’m spending on my homework. Take this weekend for example, I’ve been working roughly eight hours spread over the last two days trying to solve SQL queries. Problogger warns against [...]
Continue reading...Today is a gift, that’s why they call it the present
21 September 2009
I was watching “Kung Fu Panda” yesterday and for those who’ve read a bit about the tao this movie is full of nice little references to it. One of the nicest quotes from the movie is from the old wise turtle/kung fu master. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. [...]
Continue reading...Zen and the increase of mileage
14 September 2009
As you might now I ride a rather old motorcycle that’s not very fuel efficient (Roughly 42 miles per gallon if I converted it correctly. 18 km/l). As I was riding on the highway last Saturday my fuel ran out, thankfully I have a reserve in the tank so I switched to that. An additional [...]
Continue reading...My blogchallenge, a weekly update 19
12 September 2009
Hello again everyone, My weekly update is here again though the name “weekly” does seem a bit off. I’ve ben swamped lately and am not practicing what I preach. My time management is a bit fubar I guess. Many issues to solve but that won’t stop me in the end. We’ll get through this and [...]
Continue reading...Activity vs achievement
8 September 2009
How many tasks can you squeeze in a day? Have you optimized you’re getting things done routine yet? Do you know all hotkeys within windows and set your Gmail account to do it all for you? Everything is going faster and faster, you’re the personification of productivity. Rings a bell doesn’t it. Constantly trying to [...]
Continue reading...Security by obscurity
7 September 2009
Before I start this blogpost let me apologize. I haven’t been able to write a weekly update this weekend on the state of my blogchallenge. As it stands my weekends are filled to the brim with things I need to do in real life and even though this blog is important to me, real life [...]
Continue reading...The defective consumer says: Eat your vegetables
2 September 2009
Everywhere you look there are commercials, influencing us and trying to convince us to buy the next best thing out there. Where this used to work on a massive scale it’s now getting more and more personal with even directly addressed ads showing up on your doormat and tons of spam in your mail. Not [...]
Continue reading...70 years and still the same mistakes
1 September 2009
A lifetime ago (well actually 70 years to the day) a horrid part of modern history started. The second world war. Millions died and millions more were scarred for life.Today I’d like to give you my view of a few factors that played a role in the onset of this war that are still alive [...]
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27 September 2009
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