Month: March 2004

Freedom

I’m beyond tired and very fed up with life at the moment. I’m beginning to realise that freedom and stress are quite closely related. Stress makes you do the things you need to do to get things done. But there is nothing worse than the stress you get when someone else is in charge and you are running to their call.

I am listening to a lot of tapes from the business support team and most of these are recordings of the people who have succeeded in spades building the business. Mostly millionaires who have become free by applying the business pattern. The pattern works and leaves you free. What I can’t understand is why people are so scared of it, there’s nothing to it.

I have been dream building a bit recently. Just thinking about the things I really want to do with my life. Mostly playing with the kids and playing the guitar. One of the messages from the business is that if you want something enough you will do what you have to do to make it happen. Dreams are very powerful motivators, but of course the English find words like dream ever so slightly off key. I have decided that I’m going to the holiday in Florida next year, the ticket is mine, the only thing stopping me is myself.

Others have their dream house, boat, charity. Whatever floats your boat it will float if you want it hard enough.

If anyone reading this wants to dream big email me.

[email protected].

Rollin

I love working with Unix again. Get a load of this:

for i in `grep -il ‘^#[ ].mine.’ sh`
do
    if grep -lqE ’^[ ].
mine.|^mine.’ $i
   then echo $i 
   fi
done

This finds you a file with a line that isn’t a shell script comment but contains the string mine with a full stop at the end of it. If the mine string has a space or a tab in front of it or is at the beginning of a line then print the file name out. I’m using this to identify files that have the hard coded schema mine in them so that I can do a bulk update and put a system id in there:

cat «EOF | ex $i # $i is the file id’d earlier
%s/(mine)./1${DOMAIN_ID}./g
EOF

Just try doing this on an NT system.

Have fun children, there’s loads of other things to talk about but I’m too tired, spent all day at an out of bounds first aid course.