Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit (kuro5hin.org)

"I procrastinate. You procrastinate. We all procrastinate. Let's get back to work."

The article "Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit || kuro5hin.org" discusses many of the causes for not working effectively. It even suggests that:

"Studies have shown that the average office worker does only 1.5 hours of actual work per day"

The Mitch - Simon's Travelling Blog

Simon is a guy I used to work with who has gone off travelling in South-East Asia and his entertaining emails have now been collected together in a blog at The Mitch.

Here's an interesting excerpt:

"I'm having some xmas dinner with some people I met on the bus to the killing fields yesterday- Dawn, sarah and simon. They're an interesting bunch. Dawn and Sarah are a couple, and simon is dawn's ex-boyfriend. They all live together back in england,along with sarah's ex-boyfriend! Sounds like the makings of a great TV sitcom, does it not??"

ONLamp.com: Rolling with Ruby on Rails

I came across this article and thought back to my old web-enabled database days. This sure would have saved me some time over using PHP:
ONLamp.com: Rolling with Ruby on Rails

LinuxDevCenter.com: Clever Tricks with MythTV

A basic intro to MythTV, which is an open source alternative to TiVo subscriptions.

LinuxDevCenter.com: Clever Tricks with MythTV

Playstation 3: PS3 News, Pictures, Gossip and More!

I was playing some games on a Playstation 2 recently and have seriously started to consider buying one. It got me thinking that the Playstation 3 mustn't be too far away so I went searching for rumours on the net using my trusty google. Two of the more interesting links:

• Playstation 3: PS3 News, Pictures, Gossip and More!
• Playstation 3 Unofficial Weblog
  

It looks like the PS3 won't be out until late 2005 or early 2006 and that will probably mean an even later release here in Aus. I may have to go with one of the slimline PS2s. They are so small compared to the original PS2!