http://blog.lifepattern.org There must be a better way... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:36:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alastair Clarke explains: The theory is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual finds anything funny. Effectively, it explains that humour occurs when the brain recognizes a pattern that surprises it, and that recognition of this sort is rewarded with the experience of ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2010/04/30/mechanism-and-function-of-humor/ As e-commerce is gaining momentum all over the world, so is the need of e-commerce platforms and infrastructure. For 2008 US eCommerce and Online Retail sales alone projected to reach $204 billion, an increase of 17 percent over 2007. And that's not only the big players - more and more ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2009/08/14/tls-sni-almost-there-or-not/ Sit mens sana in corpore sano./ One often overlooked asset that you badly need in order to be productive (or sometimes just to be) is your body. If you get ill or die, your performance may drop dramatically. Maybe one of the reasons so many people neglect their health is because it ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2009/07/12/a-healthy-mind-in-a-healthy-body/ I have to keep an eye on the IT security news. You know, “security is a process not product”. Just recently, Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2009-1337 caught my attention. This even has l33t in its name :-) The more interesting part is, of course, not the CVE number but the ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2009/05/11/attack-vectors-deja-vu/ If you can measure it, you can manage it. I'm a measurement, monitoring, analysis and statistics addict :-) That's why I've always wanted to be able to monitor the IO load of the Linux systems I've worked with. While there are well established monitoring and accounting tools for the CPU usage ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2009/04/11/io-performance-monitoring/ Wearing noise canceling headphones in a noisy data centre. Listening to industrial/ebm music. Sounds weird. No related posts. http://blog.lifepattern.org/2009/02/26/noise-canceling/ So, as I was not very happy with how my projects were advancing I had to research and implement various systems to help me move forward. After much fiddling GTD was the first breakthrough. It helped me to get my current affairs in order and gave me the peace of ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2009/01/07/tasks-of-the-day/ Since the introduction of the first Palm devices back in 1997 I was tracking the evolution of pocket computers with great interest. However, for a very long time I couldn't find the combination of factors that would make me buy one. The first device I seriously considered was N770 from ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/12/31/the-internet-tablet-revolution/ perl -e '$n="\e[0;40;32m";for(1..10) {print"\ec$n\n".$"x(15)."\e[1;35mY$n" .$"x15;for(1..8) {print$/.$"x($a=16-$_);$c=int rand($d=2*$_);for(2..$d) {$f=31+int rand(3);print($_-$c?"X":"\e[$f;1m*$n")}print$"x$a} print $/.$"x(31)."\e[0m\n".$"."\tMerry Christmas".$/x2;select$q,$q,$q,0.5}' And for those of you lacking perl :-) No related posts. http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/12/25/merry-christmas/ As a teenager I used to go to bed late in the night and then slept till noon. Then for the year I was in the army I had to give up on this habit. By the way I'm mostly pacifist but here in Bulgaria we had a compulsory military ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/12/01/on-rising-earlier/