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This is awesome. This guy makes it look so easy!! I have a 3G iPod that I bought early 2004 and died late this year. I'm going to try and see it the technique here works.

Linux observation.

Hmmm, while browsing the net on Firefox on Fedora core 4 SMP, my pc started behaving erratically. at first I thought it was because of Firefox, but right now I'm using Firefox on FC4 on a single CPU and its working fine.... Update... Seems like there is a bug in one of the applets, on the taskbar, but not sure about this. Installed the ATI drivers, but the drivers are still for the Mesa GL libraries. ~:-|

Important Questions I need to aswer?

1) What are the most important problems in your field? 2) Are you working on one of them? 3) Why not?

Delegates in C++ wiithout abusive __delegate keywords.

Delegates in C++! The solution seems very elegant. I wonder what the performance is compared to C#. Has anyone done comparisons?

Good and Bad Procrastination

I have a problem with procrastination. So when I came across this essay about procrastination, I read it carefully.

Reading it made me realize that there's hope for me yet.

I think the main point of his essay was that its extremely difficult to tackle problems especially interesting problems and its best not to attack them with the a full-frontal assault but unconventional techniques, use the fascination with a problem as a motivator, but be wary.

Avoid being a modern day Icarus. Fly high but don't go too close to the sun.

I was surprised to read though that making TODO lists is one of the more dangerous symptoms of procrastination. The various types or procrastination are

(a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important.

TODO lists make a person focus on (b), and that eats up time from doing (c) which is worse than (a). Hmm, I just started making TODO lists again.

Anyway, I think my problem is that I suffer from Type A procrastination, i.e. I suffer from doing nothing.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all!!

Black iBook rumor.

Check this out. This would be awesome if true. I'm probably going to pick up an Intel-based notebook sometime soon.

Outpost Nine :: Good writing stops here

I just reading the editorials from this guy. He's an American iiving in Japan teaching English to middle school kids and its some of the more hilarious stuff I've read so far.

Notes on what's happening at 12:52 am

PC acting wierd ... Too much wierd techno on iTunes (actually its electronic) The assembly code is not working .... C# Generics are strange ... I've got too much on my mind right now ... Time for some shut-eye |-)