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    Michael Bookatz
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    anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

    Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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      anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

      Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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      Dalek Dave
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      Pay Rise?

      ------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009

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        Pay Rise?

        ------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009

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        peterchen
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        That's actually the most expensive way.

        Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
        | FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server

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          anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

          Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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          Brady Kelly
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          Code Massage. Fix all your white-space and indents, check the validity of your HTML, etc. Pretty soon you start thinking about why you have so much repetitive code1, and your brain gears up to actually being interested in at least one thing. Repeat until your are at risk of a rewrite, then throttle back. :) 1 With every revision, even the previously most singular code becomes repetitive. You know that eventually you can conquer the world with just one line. :laugh:

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          • M Michael Bookatz

            anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

            Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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            peterchen
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            If it's general procrastination - pushing around different tasks, not really starting with one - it's simple. - Kill all distractions. No e-mail, no CodeProject, no IM'ing the hot secretary. - Make an "order of execution" list for the pending tasks. - Start with the first one. If you genuinely loathe the things you are asked to do, there is a support group that helps you cope with it. It's called "Team" and meets at the bar.

            Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
            | FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server

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              anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

              Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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              Hans Dietrich
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              Write a CP article... Your article will win the Article of the Year award! You will be a hero to other CPians! You will be flooded with congratulations from friends and relatives! Women will post invitations on your Facebook page! Mustafa will be in awe, and stop talking about worms for a whole day! Christian will have a day without suckage! John will forget about Mayans! Marc will start reading ads! You will win the Nobel IT Prize! That should get your daydreaming started. :)

              Best wishes, Hans


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                anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

                Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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                M dHatter
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                Here is a list of what you need to take. 1. 5 hour energy 2. 2 Jolt Colas 3. 5 Red Bulls 4. 1 Viagra Pill 5. 1 Computer filled with cooking oil - http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-build-a-mineral-oil-cooled-computer-90295/[^] :-D

                "I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Mark Twain

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                  anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

                  Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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                  10+ cups of coffee

                  "People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs." - Anon

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                  • M Michael Bookatz

                    anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

                    Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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                    super
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                    For me its simple..I take a break and go and try to do something creative like -painting(I suck at it), -writing short stories(Actually I am OK in this), -Cooking (I can really cook ). And when I show my "creation" to my wife and kid, their comments drive me back to work, where I am really good at what I do :-D

                    cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

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                      Write a CP article... Your article will win the Article of the Year award! You will be a hero to other CPians! You will be flooded with congratulations from friends and relatives! Women will post invitations on your Facebook page! Mustafa will be in awe, and stop talking about worms for a whole day! Christian will have a day without suckage! John will forget about Mayans! Marc will start reading ads! You will win the Nobel IT Prize! That should get your daydreaming started. :)

                      Best wishes, Hans


                      [Hans Dietrich Software]

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                      super
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                      Hans Dietrich wrote:

                      You will win the Nobel IT Prize

                      Are you sure, I assumed the trend nowadays was to give the Nobel prize, for about just thinking about and not actually "doing it". :-D *Sorry couldn't resist

                      cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

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                        Pay Rise?

                        ------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009

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                        TommyTomToms
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                        Not according to science (or this guy) [^] ;P

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                          Code Massage. Fix all your white-space and indents, check the validity of your HTML, etc. Pretty soon you start thinking about why you have so much repetitive code1, and your brain gears up to actually being interested in at least one thing. Repeat until your are at risk of a rewrite, then throttle back. :) 1 With every revision, even the previously most singular code becomes repetitive. You know that eventually you can conquer the world with just one line. :laugh:

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                          Simon P Stevens
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                          Brady Kelly wrote:

                          you can conquer the world with just one line.

                          Actually, it's two lines, you need to construct your weapon first.

                          using(DeathRay weapon = new DeathRay()){
                          theWorld.Conquer(weapon);
                          }

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                            Brady Kelly wrote:

                            you can conquer the world with just one line.

                            Actually, it's two lines, you need to construct your weapon first.

                            using(DeathRay weapon = new DeathRay()){
                            theWorld.Conquer(weapon);
                            }

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                            Dalek Dave
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                            Ah, but what about the Hutt DarkSabre Package? This is like VisualDeathStar, smaller cheaper and less features, but has many proponents.

                            ------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009

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                              Ah, but what about the Hutt DarkSabre Package? This is like VisualDeathStar, smaller cheaper and less features, but has many proponents.

                              ------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009

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                              Simon P Stevens
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                              Obviously the weapon choice is down to the caller. For the more adventurous evil villain, the Conquer method has an overload that takes an array of weapons. [Although in the new 1.2 beta due out next week you can pass a generic IEnumerable<IWeaponOfMassDestruction>]

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                                Write a CP article... Your article will win the Article of the Year award! You will be a hero to other CPians! You will be flooded with congratulations from friends and relatives! Women will post invitations on your Facebook page! Mustafa will be in awe, and stop talking about worms for a whole day! Christian will have a day without suckage! John will forget about Mayans! Marc will start reading ads! You will win the Nobel IT Prize! That should get your daydreaming started. :)

                                Best wishes, Hans


                                [Hans Dietrich Software]

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                                Mark_Wallace
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                                Hans Dietrich wrote:

                                You will win the Nobel IT Prize!

                                That's booked to Al Gore for the next 62 years.

                                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                  Obviously the weapon choice is down to the caller. For the more adventurous evil villain, the Conquer method has an overload that takes an array of weapons. [Although in the new 1.2 beta due out next week you can pass a generic IEnumerable<IWeaponOfMassDestruction>]

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                                  peterchen
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                                  So we need an Inversion of control container...

                                  Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
                                  | FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server

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                                    Brady Kelly wrote:

                                    you can conquer the world with just one line.

                                    Actually, it's two lines, you need to construct your weapon first.

                                    using(DeathRay weapon = new DeathRay()){
                                    theWorld.Conquer(weapon);
                                    }

                                    Simon

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                                    mav northwind
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                                    Why would you dispose of the DeathRay after the world has been conquered? The typical mistake of a novice conqueror - you have to have something to keep the masses down once you conquered them... :-D Didn't you learn anything from that Family Guy episode where they destroyed all their guns and then were attacked by mutated Stewie's offspring?

                                    Regards, mav -- Black holes are the places where God divided by 0...

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                                    • M Michael Bookatz

                                      anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

                                      Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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                                      Caslen
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                                      Repost!

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                                      • M Michael Bookatz

                                        anyone suggest how to get motivated at work again?

                                        Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [30/Sep/2009] 103.7kg Target weight : 80kg Only 23.7 to go hope to be there by March Wish me luck!

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                                        hairy_hats
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                                        Tell your boss that you're bored and have nothing to do.

                                        I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine

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                                          Obviously the weapon choice is down to the caller. For the more adventurous evil villain, the Conquer method has an overload that takes an array of weapons. [Although in the new 1.2 beta due out next week you can pass a generic IEnumerable<IWeaponOfMassDestruction>]

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                                          Brady Kelly
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                                          Or you can call on IoC and have your enemy choose the weapon! :omg:

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