It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
Spontaneous Me” sang Whitman and, in his innocence, let loose the hordes of uninspired scribblers who would one day confuse spontaneity with genius.
Flight searching done right
Finding a good place to go on vacation has always been hard for me. Like most people, I’m cheap when it comes to big purchases, and since I spent so much time in Maui when I was a kid, I don’t really subscribe to the idea of spending a few thousand dollars per person to relax on a beach.
I also don’t really have any restrictions on when I take a vacation, so all I’m really looking for is a good deal that I can snap up for a few days away… or a good price on a flight to somewhere that I can dissapear for a few weeks.
For those reasons, finding flights has always been hard. I don’t care about the flight dates. I don’t care about the destination. In fact, I don’t care which Airport I leave from - SEA (Seattle )is only an hour.5 away from YVR (Vancouver). All I want to do is say where I am, and have them tell me what my options are… and I want them to do it quickly and comprehensively. To be picky, I would also like them to tell me in Canadian Dollars so that I don’t have to convert it in my head.
Well wouldn’t you know it. The geniuses over at Kayak have gone and built the best flight search I have ever seen. It does pretty much everything I would want it to do. It’s quick, it’s easy, and I can tell it my currency..
It sites like this that make me love the internet.
Thank you Kayak. :)
Accidentally deleting all the .svn folders
Posted on December 14, 2005
I did something really stupid today. I deleted all of the .svn folders in my project before committing my changes, and after building a major addition to it. I was trying to delete them from another folder, and used the wrong terminal window. :| Anyway, point being, I fixed it! Here is what I did:
> pwd
~/Development/project_name/
> cd ..
> svn co http://svn.domain.com/repo/trunk/ project_name_temp/
> cd project_name_temp
> find . -type d -name ".svn" -exec mv -f '{}' ../project_name/log/.'{}' \;
find: ./app/.svn: No such file or directory
find: ./app/apis/.svn: No such file or directory
(repeated.. this is normal)
> cd ..
> rm -R project_name_temp/
find . -type d -name ".svn" -exec mv -f '{}' ../project_name/log/.'{}' \;
It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
Hilarious Editorial Cartoons
Posted on my blog on August 2rd, 2005
I was searching google images for “gift wrapping” of all things, and I stumbled upon a set of editorial cartoons. They were done by a man named Clay Bennett. These are a few of my favorites: On Security:
On Medicine and Politics:
On the inability for the CIA and FBI to work together:
View the entire collection of editorial cartoons, or just check out Clay Bennett’s website
And my Number 1 favorite:
I’d love to hear what your favorites are. :)
Spammer gets a beat down
Posted on my blog on July 26, 2005I just had this article passed over to me by my friend Markus Frind.
Russian Spammer Beaten to DeathHappy? Sad? Neither? Poetic Justice? What do you think?MOSCOW — The director of an English language center and one of the country’s most notorious spammers was found beaten to death in his apartment in central Moscow, police said Monday.
Making millionaires in your sleep
There was a little boat sitting in English Bay the other day. We stumbled upon it when we were out cruising around the bay.
After a quick little google search, we found out that it belongs to Roman Abramovich, the Russian Billionaire.
Out of sheer boredom, my roommate and I did the math and figured out what Roman makes per second, assuming his 13.3 billion dollar net worth makes him an average of 10% per annum.
42 Dollars USD per SECOND!
Well, it may not be much.. but at least he’s off to a good start.
By the time he wakes up from a night’s rest, he could give away $1.23 million to a lucky passerby and he wouldn’t have any less than he did when he went to sleep. And that’s not counting compound interest.
In 24 hours, he could crown 4 new millionaires. 28 new millionaires per week. One thousand, four hundred and fifty six new millionaires per year without any impact on his net worth.
*sigh*
In the meantime.. I just like looking at his boat.
