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Who Moved My Cheese?

On Monday my family and I arrived at the airport nice and early to be sure that I would not miss my plane, only to find that the flight had been delayed by an hour. So what was there to do in that hour? Visit the newsagent and read books of course!

Unlike most times where I just randomly pick up books that look interesting and read snippets, a particular book caught my attention: “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Dr. Spencer Johnson. Being one of the books on my ‘To Read’ list, I was happy to see that it was only about 100 pages with nice big font. The blurb claimed that it would only take half an hour to read, so with one hour to kill, I decided to stand there and finish the book.

If you haven’t heard of this book, it is one of the best selling motivation books. In my opinion, a quick and simple summary is:

Adapt To Change Quickly
The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese

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upgraded to WordPress 2.3

As some of you may or may not know, WordPress 2.3 was released about a week ago on Monday 24th September. So since I had a bit of time, decided I should upgrade from 2.2.2. After some drama with the incorrect file permissions of the uploaded files I finally managed to get everything working (I hope!) so now I’m using the brand new WordPress 2.3 release :)

With this upgrade I’ve also upgraded to K2 RC1 as on their page it is suggested to use RC1 with 2.3. The front-end should look relatively similar, with the exception that tags are now only shown when you view the full post - since I’ve disabled Ultimate Tag Warrior and now using the inbuilt tagging system that comes with 2.3.

If you do find any problems with my blog, please send me an email and I’ll go and try to fix it up!

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the tiny blood red moon

Well, today was the day - total lunar eclipse - the blood red moon! I actually had class 6pm-8pm, but the lecturer was nice and let us out at around 7pm (when the eclipse started) then we all sort of went out again at 7:50pm, even though the lecture hadn’t fully finished. The photos I took came out alright considering I didn’t have a high-tech camera - all I have is a simple “point and shoot” type (Nikon Coolpix 4100 to be exact).

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luncar eclipse this tuesday!

Well, the weekend is nearly over, tomorrow is Monday the start of another week…but there is something special next week :) As you’ve probably guessed from the title (or read in the news) there will be a total lunar eclipse on Tuesday 28th, and Australians will have the “box seat for this rare cosmic event”. So when will it happen? According to Australian Astronomy…

The Moon starts moving into the Earth’s shadow at 6:51 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) and is full immersed in the shadow at 7:52 pm. Totality is over at 9:23 pm and the eclipse ends at 10:24 pm.

Pity I’ll be in class during 6pm-8pm on Tuesday :( but I’m still going to see if I can get a few shots at the moon - hopefully it won’t be too cloudy!

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Hello World!!!

hihi!
My blog has finally been transferred/updated so it uses WordPress. At the moment it is all the default settings (after all, I am at work right now) but over the weekend I will play around so that it becomes more ‘personalised’. Things that will likely change will be the theme, plug-ins (thinking of tags), more categories and of course more content! Going to aim to post more regularly, and with more meaningful content as well.

If for whatever reason you want to see my old blog (completely hand crafted :)) you can view it here: http://psychopyko.com/oldSite

bye for now!
pyko