So this morning, i must’ve turned off my alarm in my sleep… i woke up at around the time i should’ve been in the middle of the pre-workout stretch. another disappointing miss.
since i don’t have the Insanity workout to write about today, i figured i’d write about something different – Hardly Worth the Effort. discussing the last 10% of a project (which we’ve been working on for the last few months at work with a project). the oft-mentioned project management cliche 90% of the development time is spent on the last 10% of the project holds true to our OMR project at PF/QF.
this blog post by Seth Godin really hits home with a bunch of things going on with me. i’m digging Seth’s short and quick, deep thought provoking posts – a good morning read.
inspirational thought of the day:
“The journey is the reward.”
- Chinese Proverb
keep your eyes on the goal, but don’t forget to enjoy the journey!
you may (or may not) have noticed a week long drought of WoD posts, and while some will probably just assume that i’ve just gotten lazy and stopped posting or worse yet, that i’ve stopped working out completely – or maybe that my times/results/weights/reps/etc. have been so embarrassing that i refuse to post them on my site… well, that’s not the case.
last sunday i went down to San Antonio, TX for the spring NiUG (National iMIS User Group) conference. iMIS is the program that we use at Pheasants Forever for our customer records. i went to the same conference last year in Orlando, FL – and i knew VERY little about the application. this year, i had a better grip on the program as i’ve been an instrumental figure in the development of our setup and have become the resident expert in all things iMIS at PF. having this experience in iMIS and going to an iMIS conference really was beneficial – as i was able to ask more specific questions; questions that answered an issue we were having at PF. it was kind of nice not being completely overwhelmed with total newness.
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Stop with the Hello Dolly plugin
i love wordpress. it’s a great, flexible, easily customizable, often used and free
CMS which started out as merely a blogging platform. I’ve used it for a long time (since v1.2 or something like that), i’ve seen it grow into the mecca of awesome that it has today. there are many benefits of wordpress that i enjoy greatly, including the automatic update from the admin panel, but the one thing that annoys the hells out of me is that stupid ‘hello dolly’ plugin. why must it be included with every update/upgrade? i’ve never used it, i never will. the first thing i have to do after an upgrade is to remove the stupid one-page plugin. it’s a waste. all i’m asking is that you don’t include it when you upgrade. keep it in the new installs, i have no problem with that. but if i don’t want it (which i very much do not), why do i have to keep deleting it from every site i update? if i wanted it, i wouldn’t have deleted it in the first place.
Please WordPress, stop including the ‘Hello Dolly’ plugin with system upgrades!
thank you.
