I totally enjoyed that article. Thanks for sharing it. This phenonenom is why I always worked all night at least 3 nights a week. I could get a whole weeks worth of work done in one night with no interruptions and without the shut down/start up phase. Without admitting that I am getting older :-O I will say that it is tough for me to work all night consistently unless I have something very challenging or exciting to work on. (Once I let myself experience the wonders of bed, I have become addicted. Ha!) In any case, as someone else said, this "dead zone" stuff happens more with age or perhaps more with repeated disillusionment. As another idea though to increase the productive time, I have found that shutting down my email and other external electronic communications (including cell phone, etc.) until a certain point has been reached helps. I just need to make myself do that more often.

Well I am a non-smoker and enjoy the smell of smoke. Why not allow smokers one small pleasure in life and invest in a bottle of Fabreeze? Just a thought.

There is probably more risk of heart attacks and diabetes from obesity than from smoking anyway. And since people gain weight when they quit smoking, it only makes sense to continue on smoking. I feel that insurance companies should recognize and reward this approach. Along the same lines, smokers consume alot less food and that helps to ensure there will be more to feed the hungry masses ... So smoking is really a humanitarian effort... a bodily sacrifice that is done for the good of the world. :) BB

First of all, this useless person is the idiot if he thinks this stuff can be strictly "taught". But then he would not be crying and moaning about a program he could not possibly write or even fix, if he could have written it himself in the first place. So why would you give a sh*t what he thinks? Banish him from your server and be done with it. But first suggest he invest in a spell-checker (not freeware). JMHO. BB