Is Hard Work Overrated?
I worked with my last employer for over five years. And getting away from it for awhile affords a new perspective. In these couple of weeks of unemployment, I've been analyzing the way things work. At my previous employer, and with life in general. I've come to a conclusion: Hard work is overrated. It isn't directly related to success. Some of the hardest work I've done has been on failing/unsuccessful projects.Now, I'm not condoning a weak work ethic. The point I'm making is more semantic, or perhaps a matter of attitude.You see, I don't think that hard work has a bearing on the success of any endeavor. I think that commitment does. Passion does. If you have passion for what you are doing, you will be committed to it. If you are committed, the work won't be hard. It will simply be whatever is needed, and you won't think anything of it. It'll be a labor of love, if you will.This may be an inevitable conclusion that I've been slow on picking up. Or perhaps it's a bit of an epiphany. Either way, I'm going to be sure that I'm passionate about my next endeavor, whatever it may be. I've always said that 'if you aren't having fun, why do it?' Now I think I'll say 'if you don't love what you do, why do it?'
WhiP it good
Well, comments just stopped working on my install of WordPress 1.2.1 -- for some reason. I've been meaning to upgrade anyway, so viola! I'm now running WP 1.5!I'm still using the default theme -- but that'll change soon enough. Since WP 1.5 supports themes, real themes (finally!), I'll port my old site layout to an actual WP theme.It turns out the upgrade process was quite simple. All of the permalinks should still work. In theory. Let me know if you find problems with it...Update: Well, I think it's all re-stylized... It's hard to tell the way they did the theme support. Which is, in fact, one of the main reasons I'm not a fan of PHP -- it promotes spaghetti code.
I Didn't Say It...
The Germans did. 'Course the Brits think there's a link between finger length and heart attacks, too.
Terminal Woes
I couldn't stand it any more. My terminal prompt looking like:
It was driving me crazy! I wasn't sure how to change it on my Mac though. Our friend Google showed me that I can change it the same way I would on my linux box -- since they both use bash as the shell.So, I'm much happier now that I've updated my
Now my prompt looks like
Ahhhh, much better.
Matthew-McCrays-Computer:darthapo ~/Desktop $ |
~/.profile with this entry:export PS1=" \w > "
~/Desktop > |
