busy busy .. afk works is on backburner until I get my time management fixed. So far I've not been able to split my time up evenly to work on this project as well as my other stuff.

Reading good books and bad ones

Books! I'm a huge fan of books though only of stuff that I like reading.

I will never read a book just because it might impress someone or because its "the fashionable" thing to do. The book will have to appeal to me and be well written and on the subject that I like for me to read it. I overheard coworkers talking about how many months they've been trying to read War and Peace by Tolstoy. Or how they've been meaning to finish reading this dreadfully boring book and that its taking a while. One day I had enough of thier whining so I asked them the obvious question why not pick another book? Thier answer was oh I can't do that I need to finish this. Clearly someone has lost thier marbles ...wouldn't it be nicer to spend the same amount of time enjoying a good book rather than slogging through yet another dry book.

When a book "sucks" its usually a combination of author + reader and so what if a certain author is gifted he or she doesn't fit your reading style so that book is a bad fit. Reading is like dating there's no one reason why that book doesn't work out but that's just the way it is you put it down and move on to the next one.

Books! Hardcopy or Digital

I vote Hardcopy! there's a certain joy in the feel of a book the weight in one's hands, turning of pages, and did i mention no batteries, electricity needed and is world wide adaptable w/o converter plugs.

I dont own any leisurely reading materials unless I'm traveling and a novel is the most reliable entertainment as it requires no batteries or reception. I prefer reading stuff as hard copy and flipping pages. Online or text reading is too hard because by the time I've scrolled down to the right section its time to scroll again. I find that it causes eye strain when my eyes are auto tracking the text as i'm scrolling so I'd have to purposely look away but then how am i to know where I'm scrolling unless i'm looking.

The only reason I use pdf books is because its' free and very portable. Can you imagine how much it would cost to buy all the books that I read? not to mention where would I put all my books. So I only have reference books on my shelves

Art
Manga
Photoshop
Maya
Game Design
Java Programming
*Leisure reading - light reading/novels

JAVA: 1st app created "Hello World"

Software: Eclipse (free)
Book: Java How to Program 5th Edition

I just successfully created my first application. It's aptly titled as, "Hello, world!" This was actually a lucky guess on where to type the additions. I googled up a tutorial that had a screenshot of that section. This is scary!! I have no idea what I'm looking at.

Anyways the gist of it is that from the gibberish up top it successfully outputted the words "Hello World" and no error messages.