Takumi's Blog

Steve Jobs is my inspiration. He’s changed the world. Literally.

Every now and then, I find it hard to keep up doing work, going to school, etc. It happens to you too right? What do you do to get that motivation back, to want to keep doing better?

Everyone has been through hard times in their lives, and so have I. I used to use it to keep myself motivated, it worked for the 1st and 2nd year, but after that, you loose sight of what you used to have in mind. You really do.

Since Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, I’ve been using that as my source. For those of you who haven’t heard/read it, here are some links.

I recommend everyone to at least listen to it once. It’s a great speech, very inspiring.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

-Steve Jobs

That’s just one paragraph out of the whole speech. Pretty good huh? Listen to it for more!

I just finished watching the movie “Flight 93″

It was heavier than I expected

That day I was at school

I didn’t hear about what happened until school started

It’s a saddening story

I wish it never happens again

And that the world finds peace before we destroy ourselves

I have nothing else to say

Novaya Gazeta must have been an excellent journalist. Reading the news article of her murder saddened me, and while reading it, this part had the most impact on me:

“Anna has been receiving threats for seven years [since the beginning of the war in Chechnya] and was afraid, but she knew how to overcome her fear, because she understood how important what she was doing was,”

Why did this have the most impact? Because she (in my opinion) is a real journalist. She’s out there, going places where others are afraid to go. Not only that, she was doing it, and was scared, but knew how important it was that she brings truth to the public.

These days American journalists aren’t doing that. I remember my Journalism teacher saying something like “there aren’t a lot of real journalists out there, who take risks to get information and publicize it.”

Russia is a large country, but one that has lots of problems (or so I hear). Hopefully proper legal action can be taken against those who need it, and the murderer of Novaya is found. This is truely saddening.

For the past week it’s been raining nearly everyday. But today in particular, it rained VERY hard. So much rain that this parking lot by my school’s train station was practically 4 inches in water! It’s supposed to rain harder tonight… I am sure glad to be home now.

When I saw the parking lot I first thought “dang, I wish I had my camera”… because I had left it at home. But I used my cell phone instead… The picture isn’t actually that bad, it takes a 1280×960 shot, and then I cropped it a little. But at least it helps describe what I saw.

Remember back in July when I first started talking about a Mac software review site? Well, this weekend I spent figuring out how the WordPress template system works, and got my first template finished!

Well, there is some minor stuff to work out, but overall, it’s done.

Can you believe it? I can’t.

MacProbe will bring you great reviews from now on, and there’s also going to be a ‘blogging’ aspect to it, to help us stand out from the other Review sites. Good idea huh?