Wednesday, May 9, 2007

AL PACINO PEACE WITH INCHES SPEECH LYRICS

Posted by Kian, Ting


I don’t know what to say, really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team or we’re gonna crumble, inch by inch, play by play, 'til we’re finished.

We’re in hell right now, gentlemen, believe me. And, we can stay here -- get the shit kicked out of us -- or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell one inch at a time.

Now, I can’t do it for you. I’m too old. I look around. I see these young faces, and I think -- I mean -- I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me. And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror.

You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you. I mean that's...part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small -- I mean one-half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it.

The inches we need are everywhere around us.

They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch, because we know when we add up all those inches that’s gonna make the fuckin' difference between winning and losing! Between livin' and dyin'!

I’ll tell you this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin' to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what livin' is! The six inches in front of your face!!

Now I can’t make you do it. You got to look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes! Now I think you’re gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. You're gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows, when it comes down to it, you’re gonna do the same for him!

That’s a team, gentleman!

And, either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

That’s football guys.

That's all it is.

Now, what are you gonna do?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

NLP Continued

Posted by Kian, Ting


"Einstein reduced physics to what psychologists call "guided fantasy," but which Einstein referred to as a "thought experiment." He visualized what it would be like to ride on the end of a beam of light. And people say that he was academic and objective! One of the results of this particular thought experiment was his famous theory of relativity."

"NLP differs only in that we deliberately make up lies, in order to try to understand the subjective experience of a human being. When you study subjectivity, there's no use trying to be objective. "

I find how Einstein's though on Physics really interesting, he referred to the subject of physics as a collective "Thought Experiment", but really how often have I experimented on my thoughts, my thoughts and ideas about businesses, and thought and ideas on computer systems to build. A practical way to live a life is to experiment with thoughts. I remember reading this in the Biography of Gandhi too, he too was a practical man, who experimented with thoughts.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

SQL Server 2000 Optimization

Posted by Kian, Ting

Indexing is to optimize searching response time, in lay man terms indexing in database would enable you to search for records faster.

Use the query stated in the Code tag to check for the indexes that has been automatically created.

SELECT name
FROM sysindexes

WHERE (name LIKE '%_WA_Sys%')


References:-
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/optimizing_indexes.asp

Before you index, you need to run the SQL Server Profiler, to see which field in which table your search hit the most, but a word of caution is that when you do indexing put in mind the insert and update performance to that particular table, Index can speed up a table search but it can also slow down table insert and updates.

There are two types of Index:-