Jan

8th

2010

Revisiting Old Ideas: Habari's Installer

Several months ago, I worked on making Habari's installer simpler and easier to maintain. After reading the plan on the habari-dev mailing list, it looks like I did one of my common mistakes; I tried to change too many things at once. You can view the result in the 081018-handlers branch.

With that in mind, I'ld like to revisit the idea; here's what I'ld do to the installer:

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Jan

8th

2010

Ten Twenty Ten Predictions

Three years ago, I stumbled upon Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on iTunes U. Ever since, I've stopped living for other people and am living for myself; make decisions based on personal growth and goals. So far, it's been very fulfilling. Last year alone, I managed to cross two goals off my bucket list and had to modify running a marathon's objective to 25km.

For 2010, I've made a list of predictions as a motivational tool. Most are broad which is a good thing, because it lets me achieve them more easily thus preventing perfectionism to kick in. As with the bucket list, I'll be crossing off items as I realize them.

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