As any of my friends will know, I drink an obscene amount of Coca-Cola. I’m addicted – there’s no denying that. I spend a small fortune on cans and bottles during a working week and it’s really not doing my body any good in the process. So I’ve decided that this very bottle that I have in front of me is going to be the last I buy at work. I’m not going to give it up completely, caffeine withdrawal would probably eat my brain into mush but I’m not buying another bottle or can from the vending machines here. This is a conscious effort to kerb the addiction and save my body (and wallet) in the process.
Wish me luck.
Just a quick one I thought I’d share as this appears to be quite a common issue – many new MSI installers (including Microsoft’s latest, such as Windows Live, etc) like to download components as part of the installation process. If you’re working behind a proxy then this can often be a problem – in typical Microsoft style the MSI won’t inherit the settings you have stashed in IE.
Most MSI installers use WinHTTP proxying. To get this configured to match your Internet Explorer proxy settings, simply run this from the command line:
proxycfg –u
The MSI installer should then work via proxy.
In under a week i’ll be moving to my new home. Because space is going to be a bit more of a consideration, i’m not going to taking my enormous computer desk with me. I’ll be using my Macbook as my primary machine until I can afford to get a new computer desk. Apple has a built-in utility that allows migration between Mac machines so i’m in the process of giving it a trial run. I can’t use either machine during the process unfortunately, and with a massive amount of data to transfer it’s going to be chugging away for a couple of hours…
I’m not one for making New Years resolutions. They way I’ve always seen it is that if you need an excuse to change something then you’re probably not going to really see it through anyway.
As a few people may know, my life hasn’t exactly been fantastic recently – family members have died, others in hospital, getting ill, girlfriend leaving, money problems… and so on. Blah blah blah. I’ve grown sick of hearing myself complain about it so I can’t imagine how those close to me must feel!
A big change is needed, and this is it: … Me.
I’ve come to realise in life that you can’t expect things to just ‘happen’ – if you sit back and do nothing then nothing will really happen. It sounds obvious but it’s so easy to do. I’ve complained so much about my situation and the fact that I’m not happy - what I didn’t realise at the time was that sitting by and doing nothing about it wasn’t actually going to make things any better.
I’m going to stop beating myself up over the things that I can’t change. I’m going to start changing the things that I do have power over.
The first step is to get the house move done. In little over a week I’ll be moving into a really nice place with a woman from work. I’ll then be able to sort my money situation out and get my debt paid off. Hopefully I’ll be able to go on holiday this year for the first time in a while. I’m going to become a bit more creative; take more photos, compose a bit more music and really take pride in the things I enjoy.
It’s all about experiencing and enjoying life. We all worry and stress out about work – it can often be the main topic of conversation between friends and family – it’s good to vent but the truth is that we’re all probably worry a bit too much about what really is a means to and end: you go to work to earn money. That’s it. If you can love what you do then that’s a massive bonus – but for those of us who don’t there’s no need to stress about it; just be good at what you do, earn your cash and concentrate on life outside of the workplace.
2010 is going to be a good year.
The Christmas season has very nearly come and gone now and I can’t say that i’ll be sad to see it over with. I’ve never been a big fan of Christmas and this year really hasn’t been any different. I decided to go for a bit of a drive on Christmas Day as I really didn’t have much else to do, I ended up taking a few random photos at Roath Park. Nothing special really, but it was quite a relaxing walk at least.
Only New Years Eve to really deal with now, once that’s gone I can get on with enjoying life a bit more in 2010.
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