Beyond Zarathustra

After a neat conversation with my new friend Victor Lopez (creator of EconomiaPersonal.com) and reading Steve Pavlina’s “30 days to success” post, I decided to take the challenge and here are my 30 day trials:

1. Write a simple program every day (Java, C/C++, Python or PHP).
2. Read a tech reading one hour per day (time managed by Slimtimer).
3. Read a non-tech reading one hour per day (time managed by Slimtimer).
4. Read about Personal Economy one hour per day (time managed by Slimtimer).
5. Create and send 5 bussiness emails everyday.
6. SpecR Twitter account will be off.
7. Sleep at most 1am (weekends are off).

It seems to me that it’s gonna be hard, since it’s 7 trials and not just one, but I’ll do my best to try to acomplish most of them, I know I can for I am a tremendously motivated and results-oriented person ;)

I’ll be documenting my advances here.

[UPDATE] In a more winning approach I’ve changed my trials to:

1. Write a simple exercise program every day (Java, C/C++, Python or PHP). Try to solve a simple everyday situation
2. Read about Personal Economy two hours per day (time managed by Slimtimer).
3. Create and expand new bussiness idea everyday, whatever it is.
4. Make the most of the mornings.

I’ll be documenting my advances here.

As we all motorsports fans long expected, this upcoming weekend we have a new edition of the anual Le Mans 24 hours race, again from saturday 3pm until sunday 3pm several of the most known racing teams which includes pilots, mechanics, engineers, assistants and lots more people are gonna give us one of the best spectacles in racing ever.

Le Mans 24 hours, 24 Heures Du Mans, 24 Horas de Le Mans

For thee who haven’t seen the documentary video “Truth in 24″ from Audi, I strongly recommend you to download it from iTunes, it’s freely available, and is impressive, I expect to see Mr. LeMans obtaining his 9th title this year!!!

Long live to Le Mans and may the best team wins !

Unlikely to follow twitter links, I’ve followed one due to the word “Mac” in it two days ago:

RT @DesignerDepot: 40 Mac Freewares and Open Source Software for Web Designers:  http://tinyurl.com/pu7o6g

I’m not a designer yet I’m very well versed in Computers and Operative Systems, plus I self-learned the basics of design some years ago out of curiosity.

So, regarding the twitt you see lines above I must say I recommend 3 + 1 apps which will completely overcome these 40 apps recommendations, and these are:

1. Gimp for OS X (Open Source Software): Advanced app for image manipulation.
2. TextMate (Paid Software): The best app for editing source code, it completely worth it!
3. CyberDuck FTP (shareware): A truly complete FTP client, sends keep-alive bits throughout the communication.

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1. Imagemagick (Open Source Software): I under-use this app via a simple oneliner script I created to resize and change format, using it’s binary “convert”; Installed via Darwin Ports for Mac.

Of course these tools are quite far from the ultimate tools for designers, yet my list is much reasonable to -at least- try than the 40 apps recommended by DesignerDepot; no pun intended.