A thank you
Roughly 18 months ago I started looking into news feeds and blogs, one came along then a few more. Then I struck a little gold mine called Zenhabits.
For a long time I’d spent at least a third of a year wondering what direction I would take in life. Be it Career, Health, or Love. The last month or 2 of my life I’d hit that patch again and asked myself. Where did this go wrong? I traced myself back and arrived back to reading Zenhabits and the forums when I should be working. But when you have such a thought in your mind about what you want to do in life, work takes that back seat momentarily until you can get things straight in your head.
Sometimes it’s always good to have a mentor, or someone who can point you in that right direction to get you motivated, thinking straight and moving with your issues at hand and not dwell or spend to much time thinking about them. This is why I’d like to say a thank you to Leo of Zen Habits. Not only myself, but I’m sure many other people feel this way and have found him to be not only a motivator, but a mentor, and somewhat of a lifecoach to us all.
Seeing a bit more guidance, I’ve turned back to Zen Habits to see if I can get my life back on track and to where I want it to be and where to go and live that minimalist lifestyle I’m pushing towards.
How it works, What it means, and why you should read these
I’d posted on this blog before as a mobile blogger. Blogging breifly from my mobile phone, but I’d like to actually use it for something. I’ll put my movie reviews up here of movies I see with a quick review of them, a rating the plot and if available a torrent file to download if I consider the quality to be good enough.
The format is as follows
- Movie Poster
- IMDB Link
- Link to Torrent to download
- Plot (from IMDB)
- Review
- GFR (Girlfriend Rating, this will help you see if it’s a chick flick or not)
-Rating (out of 5 stars)
Reviews of these movies will be coming up soon
- Taken
- Baby Mama
- The Strangers
- The Dark Knight
- Hancock
- The Love Guru
- The Bank Job
- The X-Files: I want to Believe (X-Files 2)
- Get Smart
- Don’t Mess With The Zohan
- Iron Man
- The Happening
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- 21
- What Happens In Vegas
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Shutter
- Horton Hears a Who
- Love in the Time of Cholera
Acer Aspire One – First Impressions
It’s not often I write a hardware review but here I am writing you one on my latest toy… well you could almost call it that.
My recent purchase is something of a modern one, an Acer Aspire One. Acers take on the netbook craze following Asus with their eeePc and the MSI Wind.
To keep it brief, the “One” comes with Intels new Atom processor, 512mb ram, 8gb SSD, an 8.9″ screen and Linpus Linux OS. My first impression is that the unit is very light, it boots fast, once the initial updates were done everything has worked flawlessly. The downside is the outside being glossy, it has my finger prints all over it so it seems like something people are always going to be cleaning.
The media player codecs weren’t working though, but a quick lesson in using Terminal for Fedora and I had VLC in and a movie playing. While there is very little storage, there are 3 USB ports to accommodate USB drives, or an external drive. I already have a notebook drive I use on my main pc for back ups, and now are considering another external drive or spending the money on an SD card to extend the storage, the added bonus is the two SD card slots so one can be for permanent expanded storage.
The unit does run a little hot, but it’s not to bad. The screen is nice and bright, Firefox works with all the usual plugins I use. So far I’m very happy with the unit.
AspireOneUser.com has a lot of articles on the Aspire One and also forums with lots of how to guides for both Windows, Linux and Hardware bits and pieces to help you along the way, it’s a good strong, but small community for Aspire One users.
So far it’s great, I’ll post more on the Aspire One at another stage.
A few finished projects
I’ve finally put the cap on Morella House. Finished it to all their requests at a reasonable price for web design these days. They asked for some images with a fade in and fade out, type of slideshow. I originally tried to do this in javascript so it would work across all browsers. But finally bit the bullet and went for the Flash option, I’m guessing there will only be a small portion of viewers out there who don’t have the flash plugins required so I had to take the risk, I don’t know how to use Adobe Flash, so I searched for some programs and got my hands on SoThink SWF Easy. Which made the creation of fading the images a breeze.
I’ve also finished another album cover which was a small job on the site in comparison to my website jobs.
Coming up soon is Blackwood High Schools new site, The Moorings Carrickalinga and my new project site Carrickalinga.net.
