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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by nudone on July 29, 2006, 12:38 AM »

perhaps you shouldn't look too hard - just find something that is enjoyable rather than being worth the extra effort.

i.e. it could be something that you'll do later or throughout the day anyway - but it's something you enjoy so you'll be associating getting up with doing the 'enjoyable' activity. or, if you'd rather, you find a task that would be good to get out of the way so that it frees up the rest of the day.

sometimes doing things for other people helps - trivial tasks can then seem more important or of value.

i guess this is becoming too much of a 'motivational blog' and i'm sure there are better places to get the advice from.

just a final point. all of this getting up early is a bit of a game - i still do it at the weekend even though i could stay in bed all day if i wished. but associating lying in bed as a 'luxury' or 'reward' are just ways of making the rest of the early rise week days seem like a punishment. it is far better to think of the early starts as a benefit and not a hindrance - start even earlier at the weekend for example.

all this has been a bit of a paradigm shift for me - hence my eagerness to preach it.

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Living Room / Re: Demotivational Posters

« Last post by nudone on July 29, 2006, 12:14 AM »

fantastic, i had forgotten about despair.com

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on July 28, 2006, 03:17 PM »

There might be a bug there, i need to look into it.
Nevertheless, if you write:
nud super grid 01.grid,
It works (notice the comma at the end and not in the beggining. that's where the bug is).

-jgpaiva (July 28, 2006, 04:45 AM)

hehe, thanks. it does indeed work. time to make another .grid file...

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by nudone on July 28, 2006, 02:56 PM »

thank you very much, mouser. it's now a four week countdown until i am truly free from the job so there won't be many changes to my routine just yet.

in the meantime, i will certainly be collecting all my plans together and trying to fit them into a realistic timeline for the future.

from previous aborted attempts to do things i think it fair to say, whatever time of day you are most productive, it helps (or is crucial) to have a deadline that you can aim for.

over the next few months, i hope to shed my procrastinator skin.

as for plans to share, there will be several... (note how i didn't include the word 'hopefully').

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by nudone on July 28, 2006, 08:47 AM »

i have officially now resigned. the big boss man was surprisingly calm - he must be glad i'm going.

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by nudone on July 28, 2006, 06:11 AM »

yes, handing my letter in but will have to work for them for another 4 weeks. my boss is like a paranoid, slightly psychotic version of David Brent, so i'm really looking forward to his reaction (he is a big factor in why i'm choosing to leave).

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by nudone on July 28, 2006, 05:38 AM »

i hear what you are saying, javajones, and i have to agree about the room temperature.

the crucial thing is that if you have to get up early and you find it an ordeal (and i most certainly did) it is better to get up with the attitude that you are doing it for yourself, i.e. to do things for yourself, rather than being forced to get up because you have to rush to work within the next 30 minutes.

i hate my job (i'm going to resign later today) but i still find getting up early a good experience because of the time i'm using for myself.

sitting in front of the pc, getting through your emails and daily browsing addictions is something i'd recommend doing first thing in the morning.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on July 28, 2006, 04:58 AM »

great, i'll try that when i get home. thanks. 

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by nudone on July 28, 2006, 02:23 AM »

12 months ago, i would have agreed with you wholeheartedly, javajones.

but these recent past few months have shown me that a change can be done. the 'magic trick' is perhaps to find the right time of the morning to get up. to me, 6am represents a 'positive' time to jump out of bed even though i don't have to leave the house until 8am or 9am to go to work - i don't lie in on the weekend either.

7am feels like an utterly wretched time to get up - even 8am. these times of the day are associated with things i hate - bad memories of going to school or jobs i'd rather forget. whereas the 6am time has no such associations.

i'd say it's also important what you do to start the day. don't watch tv. do something that means you won't have to do it later on in the day - it's all part of setting off on the right foot.

i can still be working on things until midnight and any moments of fatigue during the day are usually just indications that i need to move onto a more stimulating task - which i do and 'magically' i feel fully awake again.

i'm had years of getting up 'late' and going to bed 'late' and i've aggravated my sleep patterns by clock watching throughout the night. i've also found that 'longer' hours in bed are not a good thing. for me 6 to 7 hours appears to be working fine at the moment. contrast this with times i would have 8 or more hours in bed where i would feel lethargic throughout the day - never really 'waking up' it would seem.

i only have one caffeine drink a day - first thing when i get up - so my head isn't still buzzing when go to bed.

if i'm still doing all this come December time then i'll personally be convinced that this is the right way to do things. if i'm in the habit of making the 5am wake-up by then i'll be absolutely overjoyed.

the moral of my post is: if you have to get up early and it feels bad - try getting up even earlier and do something with the time - it makes a dramatic (positive) difference to the rest of the day.

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Living Room / Re: What are your best working hours?

« Last post by nudone on July 28, 2006, 12:58 AM »

i'm feeling all alone here now. i used to be more productive at night - as i had the luxury of not having to get up early. i was convinced that i was wired up in such a way that i could never 'happily' get up early and do anything.

since last december i've been getting up about 6am and now feel that the few hours that follow to be the most productive. i'm hoping i can get into the habit of waking at about 5am and get into some kind of exercise routine. too much information i know for what was asked - i just wanted it to be known that if you are a 'night owl' and would like to become an 'early bird' then it's not difficult. (i believe starting the day early does instill a more positive attitude to the day ahead - maybe i'm just deluding myself because it is the summer at the moment.)

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Living Room / Re: Diigo - social bookmarking and annotation

« Last post by nudone on July 27, 2006, 05:31 PM »

looks good to me - the annotation part especially.

i posted to early. i can't get it to work with maxthon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Donationware 2.0" or something like that - opinions wanted

« Last post by nudone on July 27, 2006, 05:09 PM »

umm, i guess you are right. i'm trying to think of all the times i've been in the situation of being asked to 'donate'.

i think there are two distinctive situations/contexts...

1. someone offers you something that you really do not have any interest in and asks if you would like to 'donate' towards it.

2. someone offers you somethng that you are (very) interested in and asks you would you like to 'donate' towards it.

i see 'donationware' as falling into the second category. there's a trade taking place. you receive and then rightly make a donation to show your appreciation. i can't understand how anyone would want to do otherwise.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on July 27, 2006, 04:58 PM »

i don't seem to be able to do anything that stops the right mouse click messing things up.

i browse to the .grid file i've made - which is in the 'gridmove' folder i'm running 'gridmove' from.

and then i have this in the grid cycle config box...



everything works okay until i accidently right click whilst in the grid view mode - then i have to reload the .grid file back in because nothing works at all.

it doesn't seem to make any difference whether there is anything in the grid cycle config box.

any ideas?

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Donationware 2.0" or something like that - opinions wanted

« Last post by nudone on July 27, 2006, 04:41 PM »

seems like we are having different definitions of what 'donation' means. i've never understood the word 'donation' to mean 'don't give anything'. i've always understood it to mean 'give an unspecified amount of something'.

so, 'donationware' sounds perfect to me.

how about, 'support'ware or 'appreciate'ware or 'ethic'ware or 'imnotanungratefultightarsehereisadolloar'ware.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on July 27, 2006, 02:48 PM »

just a quick request, jgpaiva. can we have an option to turn off the right mouse click that loads in the next grid layout.

i keep accidently making a right click and then having to load in my .grid file from the menu to get things working.

(i think my right click finger has a mind of its own.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Donationware 2.0" or something like that - opinions wanted

« Last post by nudone on July 27, 2006, 02:41 PM »

(i've just had to edit my post because of the quick replies.)

so, to me, jgpaiva's survey sounds like a good idea and also, i think Josh's anonymous message is important for the reasons he stated.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Donationware 2.0" or something like that

« Last post by nudone on July 27, 2006, 02:13 PM »

i go for a donating is mandatory - it's in the title after all - but there is no limit to how small (or large) a donation can be. it is the act of donating that is important, even if it's as low as 1 cent/pence/yourcurrencyhere.

anyone unwilling to make the gesture of donating a completely insignificant amount as 1 cent doesn't really deserve anything in return.

if someone really cannot make a donation they can show their appreciation by composing an email stating why they can't - this would take longer than making an actual donation and would require a greater involvement from the person making the request so that seems like a fair trade off to me.

making the donation mandatory (or a mandatory opt out email) gets the person beyond that first step, beyond their inertia to interact and accept their is someone to thank for the software they are obtaining/using. once that hurdle is overcome i believe most donations would be of a 'fair' monetary amount.

let the software (or whatever it is) be obtainable for free, but only for a limited time period. let the software prompt them towards the end of the 'free' period that they will be required to make a donation within a few days/weeks for the software to continue working and then no one can complain about being conned.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on July 27, 2006, 01:26 PM »

here's my first 'super grid' if anyone would like to try it.

it's probably going too far for most people - i'm trying to cover almost every window size whilst still retaining some kind of visual cue as to what you will get from a trigger zone.

i tried to do a screengrab so that you'd get an idea of the grid zone layout but i couldn't get anything to do the grab (printscreen won't do it).

i hope someone finds it useful - or even a grid file to modify.

i'll upload a screen edge trigger version (or something similar) when i've made one.

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Living Room / Re: The unfeasible adventures of Beaver and Steve - web comic

« Last post by nudone on July 26, 2006, 01:26 PM »

nice

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Living Room / Re: GOLDEN Mermaid Found DEAD on Lonely Florida Beach

« Last post by nudone on July 26, 2006, 01:24 PM »

possibly inspired by the 'alien autopsy' from a few years ago?

i think the most incredible thing is the winning bid - just over $1500, plus postage.

if this is the sort of thing that is selling on ebay, and at that price, then i need to get in the shed and start knocking a few 'dead' monsters together.

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Living Room / Re: GOLDEN Mermaid Found DEAD on Lonely Florida Beach

« Last post by nudone on July 26, 2006, 09:04 AM »

i've seen them swimming around in pairs. i don't think they'd be too happy that one of their kind is being sold on ebay.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Steve Palina's 10 Myths About Self-Employment

« Last post by nudone on July 24, 2006, 10:33 AM »

nice. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on July 24, 2006, 02:08 AM »

just realised another thing - at the moment the keyboard shortcuts only work with the grid numbers - could we also have shortcut keys assigned to the 'ontop' and 'restore' triggers - maybe use the 'space' and 'enter' keys???

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on July 24, 2006, 01:58 AM »

just found a 'bug' with the use of ontop windows and the 'trigger' grid.

a window that is 'alwaysontop' prevents the grid from appearing above it - hope that's not a complicated thing to fix.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on July 24, 2006, 01:26 AM »

i can't quite remember if you said this wasn't possible to do?..

can the 'trigger zones' be made to be more visible. at the moment they are transparent with a white border. could they be something like semi transparent with a white border - rather like the 'resize zones' appear.

i say this as i'm creating a grid that behaves more like a screen full of large buttons (trigger zones) but it can be difficult to identify exactly which 'trigger zone' you are moving across/into - i'm also making matters worse by leaving areas of the screen without a 'trigger zone', i.e. just a blank area. i don't have to do it that way so that's my own fault but it would certainly be nice if the 'trigger' areas were more visible. what i'm asking/hoping for would only make sense if the 'trigger' area under the mouse cursor temporarily become more prominent/visible as the cursor passed over it.

i really hope this is possible.