DECLUTTERING

DECLUTTERING...

So much going on... I must DO THIS.

As I was going home last night, I felt so exhausted. Not just physically but I felt so heavy in my mind.

That's why I vowed to lessen the clutter, lesson the chaos and prioritize those that matter.

One of the first things that I did today is to unsubscribe to different sites and marketing gurus. Are you in the same boat? Is your first act in the office is to check your e-mail and get consumed checking a lot of e-mail subscriptions? Perhaps you ought to declutter your online habits, too?

Then I remembered Leo Babauta's name who became known for blogging about simple living. I must read more about him and less of the numerous subscriptions I made.

Just that, I felt I have cleared space for breathing, literally.

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Ugly CAPTCHA

I was tasked to transfer one of our company's support blog from wordpress to blogger.

As I tried to import the xml file into the blogspot blog, I ran into trouble filling out the correct captcha characters. As my irritation began to grow, I started to cursed at the word verification apps for making my task difficult. But the captcha tool seemed bent on fighting back, giving me this set of characters.

fanget in the Filipino language means ugly.

A CAPTCHA or Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer.

The term "CAPTCHA" (based upon the word capture) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford. It is a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."

-Source

Finally, I was done with the importing. And it took an "ugly" word for me to do so.

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