How to Get Nothing Done如何让没有做
June 27th, 2007 · by David Bradley 2007年6月27日,大卫布拉德利
First step, forget to set your alarm for an early morning start after a boozy weekday night before.第一步,别忘了要设置您的警钟清晨开始后, boozy平日的前一天晚上。 That way you will wake nice and late and be ready to face the world of snoozing for another half an hour waiting for someone to bring you a strong coffee in bed.这样你会后,尼斯和晚期并随时准备面对的世界snoozing另一半小时,等待有人为您带来强烈的咖啡在床上。
Next, realize that no one is going to bring you that strong black coffee, so slowly ease yourself out of bed, take a quick bathroom break and head for the kitchen.其次,认识到没有人去为你带来强劲的黑咖啡,所以慢慢缓解自己走出床,采取快速突破浴室和头部为厨房。 Decide that freshly ground, and nothing else will do, in fact if we are going to make it work really well, freshly roasted and then freshly ground beans will work best for our purposes.决定指出,新鲜的地面,没有别人会做,事实上,如果我们要使它的工作真的好,鲜烤,然后鲜豆,将地面的工作最适合我们的目的。
While the coffee is brewing, take a refreshing shower.而咖啡是酝酿,采取清新的淋浴间。 No time like the present and it will clear your head just in time for that first coffee.任何时候一样,目前并会清楚你的头上只是在时间为,第一咖啡。
Oh, paper has arrived, better delve into the day’s news (although of course, it’s yesterday’s news by default) but at least you will be almost on the ball when it comes to settling down for a hard day’s work.哦,文件已经抵达,更好地进去,深不天的新闻(虽然当然,它的昨天的新闻默认) ,但至少你将几乎对球当谈到稳定下来,为辛苦一天'的工作。
Paper and coffee finished, quick time check, 10:15am.纸张和咖啡完成后,快速的时间检查,上午10点15分。 Perfect time, well after the rush hour traffic has gone to take some exercise.完美的时间,以及后,尖峰时段的交通已经采取了一些演习。 Joggers on, and we’re off, ah wait, almost forgot the dog, back to the house, feed the dog, joggers back on, out the door again and we’re off. joggers上,我们正在起飞,等待啊,几乎忘了狗,回到众议院,饲料,狗, joggers回对,大门再次,我们正在起飞。 Couple of miles ought to do it…两英里应该这样做…
Back home.回家乡。 Dog dried off after stinky dip in local waterway.狗干起飞后,臭浸在当地的航道。 A second shower.第二个淋浴。 Finally, you’re heading for that desk.最后,您的标题为服务台。
Booting up.开机了。 Uhoh, forgot to do the weekly backup last night, better set that going, which usually takes half and hour and winds up the CPU so tight that there really is no point even trying to check emails while it’s going on. uhoh ,忘了这样做的每周备份昨晚,更好地集去,这通常需要半小时和吹起来的CPU ,使紧张,有真的是没有意思,甚至试图检查电子邮件,而它的事情。 Time for a second coffee and maybe some post-jog breakfast.时间为1秒咖啡和或许有些后慢跑散步和早餐。
Right.右边。 Back to the desk.回到案头。 Damn, backup stalled, must be a virus.可恶,备份停滞不前,必须有一个病毒。 Check out antivirus reviews then run the old out of date freebie that arrived on a DVD-ROM with Computer Abuser magazine months ago regardless.检查防毒评语,然后运行旧的不合时宜freebie抵达对DVD光碟与电脑杂志施虐者个月前,不管。 Seems to be nothing awry.似乎没有什么awry 。 So, set the backup in motion again.因此,设置备份在议案再次。 Check on the dog.检查对狗。
Finally, back at the desk 11:52am, almost time for lunch.最后,回到在服务台上午11时52分,差不多的时间吃午饭。 Once again, it’s not worth starting anything too heavy at this point.再次,它的不值得起什么太重,在这一点上。 Try checking emails and scan尝试检查电子邮件和扫描 Digg digg ’s Top Story plugin Google sidebar. ' s最高的故事插件Google侧栏。 Downloading slowly today, poor connection, might be worth trying下载慢慢今天,穷人的方面,可能是值得尝试 OpenDNS opendns again and see if it works properly this time to speed up your connection a bit.再次,看看是否正常运作,这个时候加快您的连接一点。 Logged into the router, added the settings.登录到路由器,补充设置。 Router has to be rebooted, as does the PC, twice.路由器要重新开机一样,在PC ,两次。
OpenDNS opendns still not working and worse still the computer’s dropped its internet connection too, not OpenDNS fault, looks like the network card settings are also wrong.仍然没有工作和差仍是电脑的下降,其网际网路连线太多,而不是opendns故障,看起来像网路卡的设置也将是错误的。 Wife returns home from active, busy, and fulfilling morning.妻子返回家中从积极的,忙碌,充实的上午。 Runs to check email on her machine, discovers cannot download at all.运行检查电子邮件对她的机器,发现无法下载所有。 Delegates repairs to you.代表修理你。
Eventually get wife’s email to download, but she’s already been and gone.最终得到妻子的电子邮件下载,但她的已经和消失。 Hunger pangs pounce, realize it’s well after 2pm and still not had any lunch, back to the kitchen, rustle up a quick sandwich.饥饿的阵痛突袭,实现它的好后,下午二时仍未有任何午餐,回到厨房, rustle了一个快速夹心。 Quick training session with the dog and then back to the desk.快速培训会议与狗,然后回到案头。
Connection working now, OpenDNS seems to have speeded up that connection very well, type in domain.cmo by mistake automatically fixes it to .com, neat.连接工作,现在opendns似乎已加快了这方面非常好,类型在domain.cmo错误自动修复到。 com上,整齐。 Okay, downloading dozens of emails, scan spam folder (132 messages) just in case there is one that is not about appendage enlargement from a compromised, overweight banker in Nigeria.好吧,下载几十个电子邮件,扫描垃圾邮件文件夹( 132邮件)中,以防万一有一个是不约附庸扩大从一个妥协,超重银行家在尼日利亚。 Nope nothing there but garbage. nope无关,但有垃圾。
But, there is one email from a blog fan asking how to become a blogger.但是,有一个电子邮件从博客范问如何成为一个Blogger 。 Better take a few moments to reply in detail you never know when the up and coming blogger could be your next commissioning editor.更好地抽出几分钟时间在答复中详细你永远不知道何时和未来的Blogger可能是您的未来委托编辑器。 Double check email, spell check, send.双重检查电子邮件,拼写检查,发送。 Uh-oh, forgot to add promised attachment.嗯,哦,忘了补充承诺的附件。 Re-open message, add attachment, re-send.重新开放的讯息,添加附件,再发送。 Attachment too big, bounces back.实习过大,反弹。 Open original file editor and attempt to compress, got attachment down to just half a megabyte, send it again with apology to up and coming commissioning editor (who is still at college you realize after re-reading their email).开放的原始档案编辑器,企图压缩,得到实习下降到只有0.5兆字节,它传送再次道歉和未来委托编辑器(谁是仍处于学院你实现后,重新读他们的电子邮件) 。
Absolutely worn out from all this effort, need a break.绝对破旧从所有这方面的努力,需要休息。 Twitter twitter about what you’ve been up to, just to chill out, and check on that Digg sidebar again, oh and wait a minute haven’t hit Stumble toolbar for a while, hey what an amazing panorama of the lakeside skyline.什么你已经成立,只是冷,并检查认为, digg工具栏再次,哦,等待一分钟,没有击中蹒跚工具栏了一会儿,嘿什么了不起的全景在湖边的天际线。
Oh, better check the old blog comment queue, just in case there is some activity.哦,更好地检查旧博客评论队列,以防万一有一些活动。 Nope, just one single comment awaiting moderation: “really am lining your website, mor e and better thanks NDgfggff,” it says. nope ,只要一个单一的评论,等待温和: “真是很衬砌您的网站上,铁道部E和更好的感谢ndgfggff , ”它说。 Hmmm. hmmm 。 Spam垃圾邮件 anyway, mark it as spam then check无论如何,马克它当作垃圾邮件,然后检查 Akismet folder for the rest of the comment spam akismet文件夹其余的垃圾评论 . 。 148! 148 ! Bah!杜巴! Quickly scan them page after page, find no false positives, “Delete All”.快速扫描他们的网页后,网页上,找到没有假阳性, “全部删除” 。
Of course, all this comment spam, must be due to increased traffic, so take a look at web stats, login to control panel with old password, have to delete cache and refresh browser twice to get back to the login screen, finally open stats, click update.当然,这一切垃圾评论,必须是由于增加的交通量,所以考虑一下网站统计,登录到控制面板与旧密码,必须删除缓存和刷新浏览器两次回到登录屏幕,终于打开统计,单击更新。 Wow!哇! 10 more readers today above the same time yesterday. 10更多的读者今天在上述同一时间昨天。
Wonder if any of them subscribed to the难怪,如果他们任何人订阅了 RSS feed RSS馈送 . 。 Login to Feedburner, go to My Feeds.登录到feedburner ,到我的供稿。 Find answer… Nope.找到答案…不会。 If anything,如果任何事情, Feedburner subscribers have fallen significantly feedburner订户大幅下降 . 。 Must have been that awful post yesterday, too obscure, boring, what?必须已表示,可怕的邮政昨天,太模糊,枯燥,怎么办? Maybe not, maybe也许不是,也许 Google Reader was offline Google阅读器是离线 . 。 Quick scan of other blogs with that keyphrase reveals Google Read was indeed offline.快速扫描的其他博客与keyphrase揭示了Google的阅读确实是离线。 Phew. phew 。 Make a note to double check Feedburner stats same time tomorrow, just to make sure.请注意仔细检查feedburner的统计资料,明天同一时间,刚刚作出肯定的。
Time?时间?
5:15pm.下午5时15分。 Jeeeeez. jeeeeez 。 Where does the time go?那里的时间去? Realize writing deadline from commissioning editor (no, not that one) to meet, but wife and kids returning home.实现写作的截止日期从委托编辑器(无,而不是一) ,以满足,但妻子和孩子回家。 Memo to self: Must spend more quality time with family.备忘录中的自我:必须花更多的时间与质量的家庭。 Run downstairs to meet and greet.运行在楼下,以迎接和欢迎。 Discover domestic strife already in progress, anger mounts, a row is brewing, quick escape back to the home office and re-check those Feedburner stats, just in case.发现国内的纷争已经在进步,愤怒架,一排是酿造,快速逃生部门Back to the Home办公室,并重新勾选那些feedburner的统计资料,以防万一。
Memo to self: discuss notion of great procrastinators of the world unite…maybe do that next week.备忘录自我:讨论的概念的伟大拖延整个世界的团结…也许这样做,下周。
Meanwhile,与此同时, Skype voicemail Skype的语音邮件 just in from friend who has managed to get tickets for local band playing at nearby venue.只是在从朋友谁已设法获得门票为本地乐队玩在附近的场地。 It would be rude not to, but nearby turns out to be a two-hour drive, and the gig starts at 9pm, you’ll have to abandon the domestic environment if there is going to be any chance of a few pre-gig beers to help you relax after a hard day.它会不会粗鲁,但附近原来是一个两小时的驱动器,和检票员开始在晚上九时,您就已经放弃的国内环境,如果有,将会有机会数前演出啤酒帮助您放松后,硬天。
Great gig.伟大的演出。 Late night return, forget to set your alarm for an early morning start after a boozy weekday night before…深夜返回,别忘了要设置您的警钟清晨开始后, boozy平日的前一天晚上…
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Hsien Lei 贤雷 // / / Jun 27, 2007 at 10:22 pm 2007年6月27日在下午10时22分
“…you never know when the up and coming blogger could be your next commissioning editor.” “ … …你永远不知道何时和未来的Blogger可能是您的未来委托编辑器” 。
Is that why you’re always so nice to me?的是,为什么您总是那么好,我呢? I feel used….我觉得用… … 。
David Bradley 大卫布拉德利 // / / Jun 27, 2007 at 10:35 pm 2007年6月27日在下午10时35分
Sorry Hsien, I don’t single anyone out, I’m nice to all regardless of rank.很抱歉贤,我不单身的人,我很高兴所有不论级别高低。
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