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Today, Seth Goden celebrate his 3,000th blog entry. I can only admire him. I started with the same ambition, a post a day, but not too long after that, I slack off, giving myself too many excuses and simply stop writing.

Momentum is a great thing and I need to get back at it.

I am going to make a short appearance at UiTm later tonight, at Kompleks Sains & Teknologi, 9.00pm. I will be talking a little bit about entrepreneurship and innovation. The organizer does send me some guidelines of what to talk about, but I’ll try to inspire rather than educate.

This guy inject such a powerful emotion into his every show. I wish I could put that much energy into every single line of code that I ever wrote. Unfortunately, in many cases, programming is a marathon, instead of a sprint. I am not sure you can sustain that much energy and emotion for a long period of time.

Every now and then, I manage to fill up my Saturday, doing almost absolutely nothing at all. And today was one of that day. I did try to get some code review done, reviewing our AdWords result, but it is close to midnight and I still feel the day is wasted.

A couple of major issues here.

1.  That idiot box! the junkfood for the mind! aka TV.
2. You have no plan for the day, at all. Even when you actually do something, you can’t quite pinpoint what it was.
3. At the beginning of the day, it seems like you have plenty of time for everything, but, by the time you realize that you actually has as much time as anyone else on any other day, it is already too late.

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I started running a Google AdWord campaign yesterday. I haven’t been doing this for a while. So after a little bit of reading (which everyone should do a lot more!), I manage to get the ad up and running. The initial CTR was embarrasingly low, although from our tracking, we manage to actual make a posititve ROI.

Searching for some guide online, I found this video. It is amazing how much info you can get into a 2 and a half minute video. 

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Ok, I’ve decided that I will blog every single day from now onwards. I don’t care if no one read it, or if it is filled with spelling and grammatical error, I just need to get started.

Oh, by the way, this is today’s entry.

1. Please DO NOT put “typing” as a skill. You might as well put “walking” or “eating” or “annoy potential boss” as you skill.
2. I don’t give a rat what you get for your UPSR or which kindergarten you went to.
3. neither do I care what you get for PMR either,
4. If you are applying for software engineer position, your flipping burger skill you learn when you serve your time at the local burger join doesn’t interest me one bit.
5. Don’t bloody list every single subject you took in college
6. Personality: hardworking, independent, motivated, willing to learn, team player.. bla bla bla. WHATEVER. I don’t want to hear it.

If you tried to add an auto_increment’ed primary key to existing table using phpMyAdmin, it won’t let you since it form a messed up syntax. Just use the query below:

ALTER TABLE `table_name` ADD `field_name` int(11) PRIMARY KEY auto_increment NOT NULL FIRST ;

That should do it.

As a proud, self-confessed geek, I am terribly excited to hear that LHC is up and operational. Yes, it is super expensive and the money could definitely be used to reduce global poverty and world hunger, but how could you put a price on single most important step in humanity quest for knowledge ?. 

The field of quantum physic always amazes me. I remember reading about relativity, and some brain-cracking physics when I was in college. For a short while (very short I must add!) I wanted to be a scientist. I thought it was super cool to grow and carry around some extra neuron compared to the rest of you. But that was a long time ago and I much prefer what I do now.