Add comment December 31st, 2007
I’m settling in for the new year, with friends coming over for bbq, drinks and music. I’ll be taking photos.
I hope you all have a good new year, and all the best for 2008. I’m looking forward to this coming year!
Add comment December 25th, 2007
I hope you had a wonderful time with your family and friends, and that you felt a sense of love and belonging. To me, that’s what christmas is about, and that’s what I’ve had today.
I’ll provide more of an update tomorrow, but right now, I’m going to bed to get some sleep!
Merry xmas everyone. I hope it’s a good one for you.
Add comment December 20th, 2007
One of the interesting challenges about Facebook as a social network of your friends is - how do you define your friends? I mean, there’s your real friends, your work friends, your party friends, and even your random Facebook friends. Up until now, there was no way to sort them into groups.
Facebook has just implemented a new Lists feature for your friends, allowing you to create Lists by which you can sort your friends into. I think this is an awesome idea, ’cause I really didn’t like how you couldn’t sort your friends into ‘close friends’ and ‘random Facebook friends that you wouldn’t know from a bar of soap’. Now you can!
Add comment December 19th, 2007
If there’s one thing that’s constant in my life, it’s change. I can always rely on everything to change, regardless of how much I want to settle down, or how much I think things have settled down. Change will always remind me that I can’t rely on anything to stay the same.
My contract finishes this week, and after 5 weeks of looking for another contract to move on to, I haven’t found anything. This has been a little disconcerting, as I had hoped to find another contract to either start with immediately, or at least in the new year. I haven’t found either.
Add comment December 14th, 2007
As you see examples of police brutality, how easy is it for you to justify it? Do you tell yourself that only the criminals have something to fear? Do you convince yourself that if you stay out of trouble, that you too will avoid police brutality? Do you believe that the police are brutal only to those that deserve it?
Then you’re fooling yourself into believing that reality is all roses, because you find the truth too hard to accept.
3 comments December 10th, 2007
In my article about how to be your own financial manager, I talked about how you can cut extra expenses in order to save money. It’s amazing the money you can save by cutting out the smallest things.
Thanks to Free Money Finance, I found an article listing 101 ways to trim your expenses. I thought I’d take the opportunity to point you to them, and to list my favourites. These are things I already have been doing in my own life.
4. Try a vacation at home. See and do the things you’ve always meant to do and save on hotel costs. The holidays are a perfect time to enjoy local festivities.
3 comments December 7th, 2007
I found these here, and thought it would be nice to share with you.
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
3 comments December 7th, 2007
Some researchers divide perfectionists into three types, based on answers to standardized questionnaires: Self-oriented strivers who struggle to live up to their high standards and appear to be at risk of self-critical depression; outwardly focused zealots who expect perfection from others, often ruining relationships; and those desperate to live up to an ideal they’re convinced others expect of them, a risk factor for suicidal thinking and eating disorders.
2 comments December 5th, 2007
If you’re like most people, you’re in debt. You’re spending more money than you’re earning, and you’re hoping that you’ll keep yourself afloat for long enough to find a solution to your problem. But the solution never comes, and your situation is getting worse and worse. What to do?
The real problem is not that you’re in debt, but that you don’t know how to manage your financial situation. You think that being a financial manager is for experts to follow as a career choice. However, you have an income and you need to manage how that income is used. In effect, you need to become your own financial manager.
Add comment December 4th, 2007
Some time ago I tried an experiment where I would put an image into a blog post. My rule for this was that it had to be an image I had photographed myself. It didn’t last very long before I returned to the old habit of just focusing on the text rather than the images. But really, pretty pictures makes a post stand out more.
So I’ve found a site that free and open source images: Yotophoto. Just search for the kind of thing that’s relevent to your post, or that you want to find an image of, and voila! You’ll find something.
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