That I know. It's the "dead" part that bothers me, not the commitment. Who dies on a deadline? The "task"? Or you, little by little? That's my question...
Bureaucracy, volatile laws, laziness as a cultural norm, bribery and that's just the top of the iceberg.
Been there for 40 years and in the last 10 I own my own business. So I kinda know what I'm talking about. If somebody else could prove me wrong, just go ahead, I'd be happy to agree with you :-)
he he, glad it didn't put you off the post completely. Point is that during the army I was in a much more violent survival situation, although a little bit different than the exercise described. There's a link at the beginning of the article about that specific situation. The exercise made more sense for this specific article...
happy it did end well for you (the post, I mean) :-)
Quite close to what they taught us in our own survival course. But keep in mind that we were doing this during a communist regime. Maybe you don't know much about a communist regime, but food was the most important thing at that time. Although we were also identifying shelter and other necessary stuff, like the closest human presence, food was our number one unconscious priority.
The survival exercise in itself was much easier than I expected, although I was preparing for something really nasty. The point is that, for most of the time, what we're perceiving as being frightening is much more easier to bare in the end. I intently leave this contrast in the post and I'm happy you spotted it. It wasn't a real survival situation.
that's one elegant and simple solution, I agree :-) But in this case the load wasn't so targeted, it was spread on 3-4 pages. But you're right, I could have made them all 3 static.
that's what I call making an upgrade, but they're usually call this being dummped. Girls and their strange lingo... Why can't they talk like normal, 64bits dual core guys like us?
Thanks for editing the title, this time the number in front was not "gratuitous", it really had a hook in the end (there are 101 ways in the list, not 100).
Lists are all over the internet and some people developed a little bit of intolerance to that. I also have this thing every once in a while. But lists are there to stay, and I think the way the internet as a media is structured (as for its specific reading constraints) they will be there for a long time. Lists are making things "browseable" which, in this stay of age, with all that information overload, is a must. If I can pass over the first level of reading, which are the headlines, then I will continue to read. That's where lists are becoming extremely useful.
And by the way, oxygen is so present in the atmosphere that we might sometimes get bored about. But that doesn't mean we'll stop breathing just because it's so present.
Facts are good, but opinions, even whiney, can be interesting. Of course, if there's a long history of whining from that blogger, I don't take it into account, but if there's something incidental, that might lead somewhere.