sacha chua :: social intranet consultant and geek

After several days of compiling and recompiling kernels and tracking down HOWTOs and fiddling with configuration files, I officially give up on getting WPA encryption to work with the Linksys WPC11 v3 wireless card under Ubuntu. As a temporary fix, I've disabled the encryption on the router at the Alabang house. I really need to get a newer wireless card, though, something that can handle encryption...

GRUMBLE.

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Day five of waking up before 7:30. I'm starting to like this. Waking up early means I have lots of time to myself for reading, writing, and learning new things. It has also helped me make sure I drink enough water. Not bad!

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"Oh, don't worry," one of the wakeboarders reassured me. "I fell a hundred times before I figured it out."

Twenty-two faceplants and counting!

I managed to make it all the way around on water skis last Monday, but couldn't duplicate the feat today. Wakeboarding was a complete non-starter. I kept plowing into the water face first, right off the launching bench. No matter how well I visualized myself holding on, no matter how much I tensed my knees, I kept getting pulled off-balance by the cable.

Still, I kept going back.

Maybe I'll get the hang of it next year... =)

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These are the four words that resonate the most with my desire to grow to be a better person: meaning, abundance, integrity, and love.

Meaning

I help people connect with their better selves and with other people in deep and meaningful ways. I create a better self and a better world through action and reflection so that I can do meaningful things.

Abundance

I can do all this because I enjoy an abundance of blessings and opportunities. I have enough time, energy, and resources to share with others.

Integrity

Because of this abundance, I can always act with integrity: keeping my word, living according to my values, and respecting others and myself. When I make a mistake or give in to temptation, I catch myself through reflection or the support of my others around me, and do what I can to return to a life of integrity.

Love

Through all of this, I act with great love and compassion. I strive to choose the loving option even if other choices are easier, and I also open myself to the loving kindness of the world.

My understanding of these values will evolve over time, as I follow or even lose sight of them along the way. Still, they're a good guide.

What are your values?

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Jedediah Smith wrote:

Love	as much as you can, yourself and others
Responsibility	take control of your life, fix whatever mistakes you can, let go of those you can't
Forgiveness	if a grudge isn't helping you, let it go
Truth	always search for what's real even when you would prefer the unreal
Fluidity	embrace change, seek novelty, face your fears, grow
Sarcasm	yeah, this is a GREAT value

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I realized today that Nethack isn't fun for me. I admit, I like some of it, and it's kinda cool that I have a level 13 wizard who's currently wandering around the Quest level, and it does give me some geek cred, but it's not really doing it for me. My character runs into problems, and I'm like, darn, now I have to remember where I put that spellbook...

Freeciv is a little bit interesting because it's one of the strategy games my friends play.

Maybe I should try more puzzle games. I remember liking the fish game...

Random Emacs symbol: ido-cache-ftp-work-directory-time - Variable: *Maximum time to cache contents of an ftp directory (in hours).

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