January 2, 2005

• How NOT to Spend a Winter Break

  1. Writing software requirements and specifications documents for an
     unpaid project when the new year countdown and fireworks are about to
     start;
  2. Evaluating software solutions when domain knowledge is lacking;
  3. Installing and configuring a MySQL database daemon from scratch;
  4. Forcing yourself to read technical documentation for the task mentioned in item 3;
  5. Playing Single Player games of Diablo II Expansion with EXTREME
     cheating (maphacking, character and item editing, mpq modding, etc.)
  6. Going through 3 Hong Kong TV drama series, triathlon style;
  7. Buidling a Bandai Master Grade 1/100 kit of Freedom Gundam;
  8. Checking Google News every 5 to 30 minutes to check the latest figures of a natural disaster;
  9. Playing chess against the computer;
  10. Cleaning up your hard drive just to fit more anime, pr0n, and a Linux partition;
  11. Installing Linux when you don’t even know how to install and configure the wireless network card in Linux;
  12. Reading other people’s blogs;
  13. Blogging.

  - SwordAngel

  • 12:54 am
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