In a stunning move, yesterday EA officially released the shining new FIFA’08 with state of the art copy protection missing, in the hopes of catching the cracker community off-guard. A member of a well known cracker group was quoted to say that “[they] expected the worst,” but nevertheless they’ve released an “official” zero-day crack.
EA spokesmen refused to comment these events.
This quote from a Garfield comics is a pretty accurate description of my organization problems. I periodically try to do something about this, which is to use some tool to organize. I’ve tried several things, including Palm IIIc (I hadn’t used it for quite awhile, by the time it got stolen), KOrganizer, Evolution, an old Sharp Zaurus, Planner–the Emacs mode, and several on-line organizers. Not surprisingly, none of these helped very much. Part of the problem is, that none of these is 100% of the time with me: the PDAs are a bit large, especially when in summer outfit; and contrary to what my wife believes, I’m not on-line 24/7.
The more important reason is, that tools can only help you so much. One needs some method and a bit of discipline to follow it. And I just read an article titled “Getting Things Done” (via Planet Lisp), which lead me to want to read the book and probably use its principles.
I don’t have the book, but I the description in Wikipedia and the links from there give some information to start with. The Hipster PDA seems like a good idea, too, though I’ll probably try using Gmail first.