HackyGeeky

Thanks ojilles. I like the idea of IRC, never came to my mind !

Sounds like a good tool, but again, it can't be installed inside the network..

forgot to mention, please don't suggest IBM sametime, it sucks the life out of me.

Why worry about sustainability ?! If someone wants to do good for the community by offering their skills, let them. "Sustainable model" - Sounds like throwing words around.

I'm going ahead and blaming global warming for this post ;)

Seems the question remained on my mind for a while. I think the problem is "Convincing" the mind. You don't have to, I don't. I just "say" : "We have 10 mins. and then we have more interesting things to achieve, lets get this over with". Does it make sense ?

The book in the blog talks a lot about how we talk to ourselves. At times, just barking commands to the brain works, we just don't try it 8-)

Try this - Instead of calling it deadline, tell yourself that you'll give the task x mins. and you'll see how much you've work completed in that time. That makes the mind conscious of the ticking clock and focuses you on the job at hand.

Hope that helps Kaitnieks.

Thanks Corin. Let me see if I can delete the post, so no one has to put time looking at it.

ouch.. sorry ! Have never seen that for Twitter. Must be rare.

Thanks acangiano.

Thanks ! you just gave me a great idea !!

"I would rather have an 8 month contract job during which I work 60 hours a week, and then I have 4 months to work on my own projects." That sounds interesting, is this kind of schedule widely prevalent among contractors ? Maybe I've been working at a job for too long to know this...

That's interesting. I agree building network is just as important as learning. I think it depends on the stage you are at. These are more for bootstrapping and getting started, which has a lot of inertia with it.

What do you mean by "cross borders" ? I travel oversees and no one has booted my laptop ever to see what's inside. Maybe I've never traveled to those countries.

jcl - Passwords are great, the more complicated, the better. However when your laptop is stolen, why would they put their time in it cracking your OS password. If plugging the HDD in another computer bypasses it completely.

But once you have truecrypt, it doesn't matter if they plug your HDD into a new computer. That was my main concern I was trying to solve here.

gte910h - Its super easy. Trust me. 10 mins. and you should be all set.

Go python ! I heard python is heavily used in Film industry, can someone confirm that. I heard that in a google tech talk.