I think Baker man is funny and his song is catchy, so I'm linking it. Plus it's a way to say thanks to my follower!
26 August 2010
09 August 2010
Mac wins again.
So the past two movies I've purchased, are unreadable on at least two Windows XP machines. I pop the disk in, and the DVD light turns on and off and may or may not lockup my computer to the point of needing to reboot or simply close some programs. Autoplay seems to have something to do with it (Bad DRM?), but I did a registry hack to disable autoplay, but I still get problems. Once I was able to boot with the disc in the drive and I could watch it, but what a pain. I almost wanted to break my dvd drive in frustration.
I popped the disk into my Mac, loads up immediately and plays. Epic win for Mac, epic fail for Windoze.
I popped the disk into my Mac, loads up immediately and plays. Epic win for Mac, epic fail for Windoze.
03 August 2010
I'm not a multi-tasker
I know that multi-tasking is a huge buzzword for resumes, and corporations are always looking for people ready to work in a "fast-paced, multitasking environment" but honestly, multi-tasking is a waste of time.
How many things can you really do at once, not including walking and chewing gum? Anything that actually requires concentration and is worth doing needs full attention. If I try to do 5 things at once, I might be able to handle the gum-chewing and walking, but the important tasks are just going to sit.
In the business world, if I try to juggle too many tasks at a time, I'm going to end up being so distracted that nothing gets done and multi-tasking becomes a necessity since I have to juggle calling all the people back, spending all my precious brain-cycles coming up with reasons why the thing person 1 wants isn't done, all the while trying to come up with something to tell person 2.
Honestly? I'm a one-at-a-time kind of guy. I like to get a task, no interruptions, get it done, and move on to the next. Actually, for things other than gum-chewing and walking, this is more efficient because I spend less time wasting brain cycles on crap to come up with. And, that slush-pile that piles up if I try to multitask? It gets gone.
Embrace your single-mindedness, pick a task and just get 'er done. No use wallowing around in-between tasks.
Now to go attack that list of goals that must not be named.
How many things can you really do at once, not including walking and chewing gum? Anything that actually requires concentration and is worth doing needs full attention. If I try to do 5 things at once, I might be able to handle the gum-chewing and walking, but the important tasks are just going to sit.
In the business world, if I try to juggle too many tasks at a time, I'm going to end up being so distracted that nothing gets done and multi-tasking becomes a necessity since I have to juggle calling all the people back, spending all my precious brain-cycles coming up with reasons why the thing person 1 wants isn't done, all the while trying to come up with something to tell person 2.
Honestly? I'm a one-at-a-time kind of guy. I like to get a task, no interruptions, get it done, and move on to the next. Actually, for things other than gum-chewing and walking, this is more efficient because I spend less time wasting brain cycles on crap to come up with. And, that slush-pile that piles up if I try to multitask? It gets gone.
Embrace your single-mindedness, pick a task and just get 'er done. No use wallowing around in-between tasks.
Now to go attack that list of goals that must not be named.
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