http://blog.lifepattern.org There must be a better way... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:54:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Wow, It's been more than two months without me blogging. But what months... :-) We've been to the marvellous Spain. Three weeks was enough time to completely forget my "ordinary" life and all the incomplete things fighting for my attention. While in Spain I've deliberately chosen to stay away from computers ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/11/18/two-months-without-blogging/ Those of you who use MySQL in a multi-user environment are probably disappointed by it's lack of per user usage statistics. For example in Linux there are BSD process accounting for CPU usage and IO accounting for disk usage tracking. Most applications like apache, ftp servers and mail servers provide ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/09/05/mysql-usage-accounting/ We (me and Antonia) have finally decided to go the DSLR way. We were considering the switch for some time but only recently the pros of the current DSLR technology started to outweigh the cons for us. We are proud owners of a Canon Powershot A95 compact digital camera for about ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/08/31/going-dslr/ I remember when I was younger, I could eat almost anything that didn't run away fast enough. Especially in my late teenage years I often ate all kind of junk food and often in quite large amounts. At the same time I wasn't a very active kid. That's not to ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/08/26/weight-up-weight-down/ A year ago I decided it's about time to get a Virtual Private Server for my pet projects. Prior to that I had 2 sites on a shared hosting server and some other non-web network related apps spread around workstations that are always on. But at some point it all ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/08/23/virtual-private-servers/ Traveling around the globe is one of the most enjoyable activities for us (the other part of us). If I look back through the past few years most of my memories are somehow related to our journeys. Probably I'll consider myself rich when I have the freedom to travel year ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/08/17/learning-spanish/ In a previous blog article I mentioned that one of the tools I use to fight with the surplus of things to do is a form of the David Alen's GTD system. In a series of articles I'm going to share the different aspects of the way I manage my ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/08/10/are-you-getting-things-done/ I remember my first encounter with the hyperlink idea. It was in a book about the different Internet protocols. I think it was somewhere around 1993 and I can't actually remember the name of the book but there were sections on Gopher, Archie, WAIS and WWW. Today the Web is ... http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/08/06/i-like-hyperlinks/ Worked 19 out of the past 21 days. Will probably have the same busy schedule in the next two or three weeks. Unfortunately I hardly find enough time for blogging but I'm slowly writing few articles on a paragraph by paragraph basis :-) http://blog.lifepattern.org/2008/08/03/too-much-work-and-no-play/