19/10
It's autumn for real. It's cold and dark outside and I don't feel like doing anything at all really. So, no programming done today either, not so far at least ... And tomorrow I'm getting up at six to start working at 7:30, why the heck to I happily say yes to any time Katarina suggests? And why do I feel so negative to working when I'm not doing it, when I don't have anything against it once I actually am? Suppose the way I set myself up with additional early mornings at times is one thing. Can't really defend the idea that it'd take away from my studying either, not so far anyway. Would have no problem doubling my studying time and still be able to work more often if I had more discipline :-) ... Might just be some deeply rooted dislike of having what could have been free time taken away from me. Anyway, no matter how dubious or undefinable the reasons, it is a fact that when I'm not at work I feel I'd do better not working at all, and when I'm at work I don't mind at all ... Human nature, eh? Some people don't understand the opposite sex, I for one will be happy the day I understand myself fully :-) ...
Installed MS Media Player 7 today. It immediately made me dislike it by taking copious amounts of space and lacking options to give said space back to me. And I'm on a 1280 by 960 desktop for crying out loud, must be awful in smaller spaces ... Sure, there was this "mini" or whaterver skin, but I couldn't get it to use a skin as default and there seemed to be no easily found way of switching skins from within the program. And that skin didn't work with video either ... Only positive thing was it didn't uninstall or overwrite Media Player 6 so it was a breeze to go back to it and its wonderful "compressed" and "minimal" options. As for sound playback, even if it's got the same features as Winamp, who'd use it when it takes lots more space (with a big black hole kept for video or visualization) and is made by Microsoft? No, I'm keeping it in case I'd need some kind of feature it has somewhere someday, but I won't be using it until then ... Good thing for them they're not imagining to make money or something from this thing ...
