Robert French

Well I just noticed that my CSS is broken over here on the WordPress side of the site … I know it was when I added the header (also broken over here) … I will fix this week with some luck ….

I’m in need of a nice project/issue tracker that can be installed via FTP / Web interface only … I’m currently entertaining bug genie, but am open to suggestion … Ideally I would run RedMine and call it a day, but I have to deal with some strange limitations at the moment, and Don’t really want to do all the customization needed to get Mantis to look right…

Tomorrow is a BIG DAY …. Positive vibes from everyone please, just send me some thoughts of awesomeness if at all possible in the morning… I figure it can’t hurt and may just help.

Need to get to sleep…

It’s been a VERY long time since I have managed to cobble together a post for the site, so it’s very fair to say that this round of experimenting has been a public failure … ( YAY Me!!!! ) – Fail fast, Fail often I guess…

I’ve been busy with clients and contracts which is great, so busy in fact and have had to turn down work (which is a great place to be, although it never lasts).
I’m back to teaching 2 mornings a week, this time at the International Academy of Design and Technology / RCC in Toronto. I love teaching and have been waiting for an opportunity to get back to it. It is by far the most rewarding (personally) work anyone could ever do. I’m teaching Game development with Ogre and have to send a personal thanks out to Kwam for getting me the gig.

The next few weeks are pretty stressful and will actually shape (or hopefully re-shape) the direction I’m heading in, so everyone please keep a positive vibe running for me and with some luck, I’ll get some serious issues out of the way and be able to get back to a normal life.

Thats all for now,
Love, Peace, Etc…

Well I figured I better provide an update to the back on track experiment seeing as time passes even if I’m not doing so great on my goals …

The trick is to be either more stubborn, or more stupid (depending on how you look at it) … I could quite easily call this experiment a failure, but I prefer to try and learn from my mistakes and keep failing forward … it’s that whole ready fire aim attitude I have…

More Debt, Less Paying work, missing Guitar practices, have only picked up 1 song so far (and should have picked up 4 by now), meditating daily (thats working for me), have been out on the bike, but not enough yet (lack of funds can damper the biking), still smoking.

So what to do?

Well let’s see what I’m not doing right and see if I can correct it mid flight rather then crashing the plane and starting over …

The great ones say (the great ones being Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Jack Canfield, Eckhart Tolle, Etc… ) They all say that I need to know what my chief aim and purpose in life is, I should write down my goals in a clear and concise manner, that I need to read aloud twice daily this statement of desire and I need to use my power of visualization to see things the way I want them to be as if I have already achieved them.

Considering that part of my ideal happens to be displayed as Tony Stark’s lifestyle, I would say thats a pretty tall order to fill … But I like a good challenge.
So I’m going to have another crack at this… Because I didn’t really do things the way that ALL of the great successful people say that I should, and the point is to listen to what the successful people say right? What do I have to loose from writing it down and reading it aloud everyday? People already think I’m nuts…

Ok,
I’m going to start out with discovering my chief aim and purpose in life. Because thats just so simple for everyone (lmao). Then I’m going to write out my goals in a way that I can repeat them to myself (aloud) daily and I’m going to take 10 min after my meditation time to bone up on my visualization …

Thats the plan …

Managing stress is something we all do. Some of us can do it better then others, and some of us are just really good at covering up how stressed out we really are.

They say that the 3 most stressful things that can happen on your life are 1) the loss of a loved one (death), 2) the loss of work, 3) divorce or seperation.

Either I’m really good at handling stress, or the rest of the world really sucks at handling it. Number 2 has happened several times (so has number 1), and I’ve been through number 3 too.

Having a shortage of paying work and mounting bills is a pretty stressful thing
It seems to be a theme with me the past year or so … But I think I manage it alright, I wiuld prefer to have the inverse problem though … So much abundance that I couldn’t spend it all if I tried.

*sigh*

Tonight I’m taking part on one of the more common saterday night social rituals for gen x and y people… the movies. It’s surprising how busy the movie theiter is considering the current state of the economy and the price of popcorn.

Seriously tho, where do I sign up to charge 11 bucks per person to get in the door to watch a movie I can download thru bittorrent and then at least another 11 bucks for some popcorn and a drink?

I’m betting that the silver cities and the AMC are making a mint, which I confess is kinda startling to me considering I almost never go out to watch a movie.

I really should get off my butt and properly spec out the Lifetime Media Device that I came up with about 7 years ago. Imagine always being able to see the movie of your choice … Never sold out, never out of stock, and never late returning it … Tie that with no plausible way to pirate the media …

I think it’s at least worth putting together a proper business case and draft spec … Whack it a bit and see if it’s economically viable.

Food for thought

Hmm, Lets try that again shall we?

Well, as Craig pointed out in a comment on my last real post, we managed to reduce our electricity consumption by 15% during earth hour… Thats a positive thing.

I have spent the past few days reviewing the positive and negative effects in my life. I managed to remove myself from a situation recently that was negatively affecting myself more then I wanted to admit, and I’m actually quite proud that I removed myself from the situation rather then become sucked in and consumed by it (a past trend). Unfortunately, not everyone involved in this particular situation understands that, and rather then give me the benefit of the doubt, I got additional negativity… But such is life I guess.

At any rate, I’m going to try again to get the ball moving on the blogging …