My server is up, but my ftp is still down. So this news is not exactly up to date. But I want to get it down for the record. It's a bit exciting. The hard parts of Demo 1 are finished. I have 2 easy technologies to add and the rest is creating the models. That means that I am just 2 days behind schedule if I can do the easy stuff tomorrow. 2 days behind is nothing. In fact, the models I am doing tomorrow will be part of not just demo 1, but demo 2. So demo 2 will likely take less than a week. Even though I plan to spend time at 2600 on Friday, I can still make the Saturday night deadline for demo 2. That would be really amazing to me. There are times when I throw myself around and verbally abuse myself (half are untrue, but definately unproductive). Missing deadlines can be a horrible experience. It often compounds upon itself; it makes easy deadlines into more missed deadlines. If a missed deadline can destroy a person's confidence, I say that person is better off ignoring the deadline entirely. The confidence will motivate the person to do the work better -- in the end, faster.
Greetings, I hope you are well. If you are reading this, perhaps you are. You are probably aware that reading this is supplementary to life as opposed to required. I write this so that I can get enjoyment and you read it for the same purpose. I hope we are on the same wavelength, you and I. On good days like today I work on required things 15 hours each day and the rest is usually spent eating. On not so good days (like yesterday) I watch movies, anime, and read Slashdot for about five hours. But yesterday was not a bad day since I got ~10 hours of work done. As long as I can get a large amount of required work done everyday, my goal will be accomplished. I have done the scheduling required for this task and I am annoyyed that I was unable to complete the task in the time I gave it, but I have assumed that exactly that would happen and have given myself extra hours to work on it. But that means that I have to work harder. Working harder doesn't always work. For today's lesson I will try to glance on the topic of working harder.
Long time no see. I promised a page a day for 40 days and I stopped. Well, I didn't stop on purpose. My server died. It's back up as of 11:15 AM Saturday Jan 31, 2004. In fact, javantea.com was up before keenspace.com was. Funny, isn't it? Well, not extremely funny. I don't like laughing at others' misfortune in light of my own and my dependence on those people. I've been hosting javantea.com on Keenspace for a few years, but it has been more my secondary rather than my primary until just a few months ago. A few months ago, I lost my free primary site at students.washington.edu since I graduated. So I have been happily using Keenspace until a few days ago. My best wishes to the Keenspace crew as they work hard to fix this as fast they can. In fact, until they get the FTP working, you won't see this or yesterday's post. I was thinking of making a big manifesto about how we community members should take up our position as supporters of the service we use. But I decided that my budget is a bit tight for that. I can't exactly spend $60 here and $60 there and expect to survive the coming months. I know that one must spend money to make money, but it's silly to go on a spending spree when I am broke. But when I am less broke, I'll donate some cash to Keenspace. They may advertise on my site, but the service is worth quite a lot more to me. In fact, I have about 50MB of stuff here at JF. You may not notice, but this site has 321*2 + 5*5 pages with an decent sized image each (10-80kB each).
No really, its actually another day... Well, I wrote this 12 hours after I posted the last MoHM, but you won't get it until tomorrow. I'm still pretty motivated to work on Hack Mars. In fact, I'm just rearing to go. I'm going to switch up my sleep schedule so that I can work all night tonight on 4 hours of sleep. That way I can hopefully skip one four hour sleep per four. That would become 12 hours of sleep per 2 days or 6 hours per night. But I will sleep 3 times, so I plan on no loss in quality of work. Have you ever tried it? Skipping any sleep? The main thing is to go to sleep when you are tired. Don't go to sleep because it's 3 AM. When your eyes start to hurt, you can keep on until you find a good place to stop. Sleep when you find yourself having problems with vision or other dull ache or pain. But don't sleep long. Set your alarm and stick to it. If you are motivated, you'll wake up no matter how many hours. And if you can trick yourself into thinking that you're getting enough sleep, you can be more productive by skipping some sleep. I've only done it a few quarters (mostly college), but it works well. But DO NOT skip sleep for work that you don't like. That's funny, right? Well, I want to warn you that skipping sleep for bad reasons is silly. You can always get work done. You have 80 hours easy per week. That's not the problem. Not having enough time is caused by something. Debug your life and see why you aren't using your time correctly. If you complain about missing sleep for lame work, I have no sympathy. Skipping sleep is for people who have a mission, not a 5 year plan.
