Learning About: Not living in a desperate way

Posted by lemiffe in Computers, Learning, lemiffe, Life on Feb 4th, 2010 | 2 comments

A few months ago I put together a new computer. I hadn’t done this in ages so, naturally, I did some mistakes.

My main problem was not using the motherboard spacers. Yeah, I screwed the motherboard right onto the case. This (for those who don’t know much about computers) causes immediate short circuit. Fortunately my motherboard has a short-circuit detector and did not allow me to turn it on.

So I went to a computer repair shop with the PC, asked around for the fault, and immediately a guy pointed out my mistake.

I told him “I knew something was wrong, as I had to press really hard on the PCI/PCIe cards to get them in place, and even so they didn’t fit in well”. To which he replied “When something doesn’t fit in naturally you must be doing something wrong, everything should just fit in.”

So I went back home and put it together in the right way, and it turned on without a problem.

His words, however, stuck with me. They not only worked out for my computer problem, but they apply equally to all aspects of life. If something doesn’t feel right, then you must be doing it wrong.

• If you eat something that doesn’t taste good, you spit it out or stop eating it.
• If you put your hand too close to the fire you naturally take it away.
• If you buy something you didn’t like you don’t (generally) buy it again.

So, then, if we act so naturally about so many of these things, why not apply them to cases such as the following:

• If we are in a job we don’t like, why don’t we leave it?
• If we are in a position we can’t handle, why don’t we say it?
• If we are under a lot of stress, why don’t we deal with it?

It’s ALL about communication and action. It’s not about not being able to handle something, it’s about not communicating it to the right person. It’s not about not being comfortable in a job, it’s about doing something about it. Don’t be afraid to live right.

Weekly Highlights (10/01/2010)

Posted by lemiffe in lemiffe, Weekly Highlights on Jan 11th, 2010 | 0 comments

OK. I know I’m a day late, but who cares. Unfortunately I had a rather boring week, so I don’t have my usual 3 photos to upload. I didn’t go on any crazy adventure this time, I didn’t take a trip, I just sat indoors. Why did I just sit indoors?

That’s why. It was bloody freezing. Indoors I have it at 21C so it’s nice and warm, but outside we were around -8C for 3-4 days so it wasn’t very inviting to go for a stroll. However,

I did go for a bit of filming halfway through the week. This is a still from a short film I’m recording with a friend of mine who is studying in Cardiff. With any luck the film will be finished by the end of January, and *if* I get permission, I might upload it to YouTube.

New Blog Design!

Posted by lemiffe in lemiffe on Jan 4th, 2010 | 0 comments

I Just finished giving my Blog a new look, which will probably suffer a few more changes in the upcoming weeks. Give it a look, and don’t forget to tell me what you think.

Thanks to Carrington for such a great theme. If you experience issues in other browsers, or platforms, please give me a shout. I’ll be happy to look it up for you because as you may notice while browsing through categories, AJAX loading has been enabled and may, or may not, work on different browsers.

I also added a few new sections (pages) to the site. Browse around!

Weekly Highlights (29/11/2009)

Posted by lemiffe in lemiffe, Life, Photography, Weekly Highlights on Nov 29th, 2009 | 3 comments

This picture was taken whilst I took a stroll through the great city of Glasgow. I found this beautiful church upon my way through Bath St. and positioned myself at an angle in which the photo would somehow describe how tall the steeple really looked and felt.

This was taken yesterday while we walked through the German Market, a part of the Edinburgh Christmas celebrations which start on St. Andrews Festival and end the night before Christmas. The place was so crowded one could barely walk, and had to wait for people to organise and keep moving. The lights were beautiful tones of yellow, however, I chose this picture as it describes more of how I felt at the time more than how it actually looked to the eye.

We had to wait so long to get the bus back home. The cars couldn’t move amongst so much traffic. It was everywhere. The fog was all around us, and it was so cold. After 10 to 15 minutes the bus came along, but the wait was well worth taking some photographs. The scene around us burst with people, fog, and close-to-stationary vehicles.

Weekly Highlights (22/11/2009)

Posted by lemiffe in lemiffe, Life, Photography, Sightseeing, Weekly Highlights on Nov 22nd, 2009 | 0 comments

I will try to upload weekly highlights of interesting moments and photos taken during the week, hopefully to inspire you and others to do the same. Look around, visit places, take photos. In life every moment counts.

At the start of this week I travelled to Glasgow to finish a pending job. Just down on West George St. in Glasgow City Centre I found this interesting fair being built up. My guess is for St. Andrews Day.

This is the view of the loch in Linlithgow. It was a rainy + cloudy day, and heaven knows why we randomly decided to take a trip to Linlithgow, a town of which I had never heard about, but it was a great experience despite the rain.

A silhouette of you, from inside Linlithgow Palace. You can see the beautiful small town just outside the window.