May 10th, 2004

Installing MySQL = Install a squirrel in your computer

*sigh* She is a maths person – thats her excuse

So im reading this book i got on sale at BigW, not too bad. I realise im a bad procrastinator… so ive gotta try stopping that.

Nice quotes:

“Inspiration, readiness, and the like, are not necessary feelings for moving ahead and getting a job done. They are artificial impediments to completion.”

This is so true, i make so many ‘im not motivated, im not ready, i dont feel like it” excuses every day.

If the task is set by others and a deadline is involved, procrastination occurs. The intense anxiety involved in facing the task can be overwhelming and can be avoided by delay. As the deadline nears, dread increases, and at some point activity begins. Because so much time has been wasted hiding from a fear of failure, little time is left for a good effort. The job is pulled off at the last minute and does not represent a best effort. You are left then with some sense of failure – which you started out to avoid. You also have a sense of relief. Its over. You’ve scraped by again. Because you have in one sense succeeded, you are very likely to repeat this destructive unfulfilling pattern again”

gotta stop that

From:

http://computertimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,5104,2292,00.html

Seems microsoft wont have anything in XP service pack 2 to detect priate copies of the OS, like it did have in service pack 1. Seems microsoft decided:

“that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue.”

*cough* riiiiight, Thats so kind of them. Whats going on microsoft? Not interested in revenue? Call me paranoid but somthing just dont add up.