Posted May 23rd, 2012 @ 04:16pm by Erik J. Barzeski
These two go together nicely:
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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Posted May 22nd, 2012 @ 04:15pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown
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Posted May 21st, 2012 @ 04:12pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
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Posted May 20th, 2012 @ 04:04pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
I completely disagree.
I've been tempted, and I can logically rationalize it away.
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Posted May 19th, 2012 @ 08:29pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Today I have surpassed 300 miles run. Go me.
Kind of an odd day for this to happen. 😛
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Posted May 18th, 2012 @ 04:00pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
This one is particularly interesting to me today.
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Posted May 17th, 2012 @ 10:00pm by Erik J. Barzeski
So, when you delete a direct message, the recipient:
- Gets an email if they have that option enabled.
- Gets the direct message in any apps that they have open at the time.
And that's it.
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Posted May 16th, 2012 @ 04:07pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
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Posted May 15th, 2012 @ 04:07pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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Posted May 14th, 2012 @ 04:06pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
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Posted May 13th, 2012 @ 04:05pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
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Posted May 12th, 2012 @ 04:03pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
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Posted May 11th, 2012 @ 03:59pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
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Posted May 10th, 2012 @ 03:58pm by Erik J. Barzeski
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
- Richard Dawkins (1941-)
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Posted May 9th, 2012 @ 04:24pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The Man keeps sticking it to us:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/09/unskippable
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/dvds-and-blu-rays-will-now-carry-two-unskippable-government-warnings/
And they wonder why piracy keeps getting higher and higher. With piracy, you don't have to watch these stupid warnings. 😛
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