Warren Buffett June 28, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentIs officially… The man
Still down June 27, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentThe T60 is still down; some problem with Windows not finding the hard drive anymore. Plus IBM makes all their hardware proprietary so I can’t connect the hard drive to an external case and take the info off on another computer. I’m in a horrible position. I hate computers… Hahaha, what am I saying.
Well I’m planning on launching a little site today for a $4mm house, it should be nice. I’ll post a link later today.
My T60 has crashed! June 25, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentYes, and I think I set a personal record for the amount of time that I’ve used Windows without it crashing - 4 months!!! I was just waiting for it to crash… Apparently I deleted the boot.ini file that resides in the C:\ directory. Good stuff. And oh yeah, Microsoft, I don’t understand: Why would you make a file that a user can access and delete that has no defaulted backup??? This one file, with four lines of code in it, crashes the whole computer.
Great OS, MS.
And good luck with Steve Ballmer as your new CEO.
:)
Being More Efficient June 23, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentWhile freelancing, I’ve come to find that your schedule is completely up to you. That’s obvious. Having a loose schedule isn’t always a good thing though; you get to decide if you want to work on a project or go read some news… which I happen fall into a lot :). But today I had a great idea.
Get a watch and set it so you can only get five minutes to do this. Now (this may be a huge leap of faith) DELETE ALL YOUR BOOKMARKS. Start the clock. In five minutes, input every bookmark you feel is most important, or the sites most relevant to you.
Now, go through an entire day and you can only see those sites. No clicking out of them either.
I tried this today. And I feel sooooooooooo efficient! It feels good.
Well, I’m off to a party or something… Peace!
“Access Denied” Debate June 22, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentI’ve always found it annoying that our school blocks popular sites like Facebook, Myspace and other websites that kids use quite a bit. I came across a great post today about the whole debate. Here’s a snippet of it…
“Here’s another analogy: In the offline world if someone takes so many bathroom breaks that they aren’t getting their work done at an acceptable level you fire that person, you don’t barricade off the bathroom. More broadly, the Internet has changed the nature of work; people can and do work from anywhere at any time. If you want your employees to check their email on the weekends or finish a report at night then a logical tradeoff is allowing them to buy a book from Amazon when they are at the office. If you want a job to become a part of a person’s life then you have to give the person more control over how they fit their job into their life.”
I think I died and went to heaven… June 22, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentFinally, my new router came!!! Two months of anticipation has led up to this day… Take a peek at it…
And now, finally, I’m in my room… Connected at 270mbps!!! This is unreal
North Kingdom… June 22, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentIs officially the greatest design studio that the world has ever seen.
Check out their latest site, The Vodafone Journey. They redefine digital beauty.
See North Kingdom’s site, and their impressive client list.
Live.com… What a joke June 21, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentThe owner of AndrewWitchcock.org has posted some insightful numbers on how employees of Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google conduct searches.
A self-explanatory article on it can be read here
San Francisco June 21, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , add a commentI went to San Francisco all day today… It was so much fun. It was also the first time that my dad let me go as the driver without an adult!!! Whew, I feel sooo responsible now… :)
Anyways, check out my Facebook to see all the pictures from today. The Facebook like is on the right side… Cheers!
New apps coming June 21, 2006
Posted by sdpurtill in : Uncategorized , 1 comment so farI am currently in the process of developing one app and beginning another. Both are great ideas, and the latest one may become a big hit. I just bought the domain name for it on GoDaddy. I’ll let you in on it in approximately 3 months. And the former should be running by the 30th of this month; the URL for that one is flist.net