Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past you have been transacting with some imposters and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these imposters. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us

We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $6,100,000.00 be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $5,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world were you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). We have advised that this should be the only way at which you are to receive your payment because it’s more guaranteed, since over $5 billion was lost on fake check last two (2) years 2008.

We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your $6.1 million United States Dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect you. (This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to people which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current economic status of the nation and its citizens as he bas always believed “Our Time for Change has come” because “Change can happen

To redeem your fund you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $265 only nothing more and no hidden fees as everything else has been taken cared of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $265 only.

Contact Information
Name: Dr. Tom Brown
Phone: +xxx-xxx-xxx-xxxx
Email: drtombrown-xxxxx@xxxxx.cn

Do contact Dr. Tom Brown of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below,calling him on his hot line will be faster than to email him:

Your full Name:
Your Address:
Home/Cell Phone:
Occupation:
Age:

On contacting him with your details your files would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $265 via Western Union Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order. After which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee or any authority raising eyebrow.

Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive your ATM CARD Shippment Confirmation within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.

Once again we are so sure of you receiving your payment at no any other cost as we have taking it upon our duty to monitor everything in other to cub cyber crime that is perpetrated by those impostors.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

ROBERT S. MUELLER,
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
TELEPHONE: xxx-xxx-xxxx
FAX: xxx-xxx-xxxx

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Dr. Tom Brown of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office via the above fax number so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.

To be honest: I was a bit scared at first, but when I read further down I just couldn’t stop laughing…

This post will include the latest offerings I have received from “persons”.
From Kwasi Tumi (staff of CAL bank,Accra Ghana): Ten Million United States Dollars (US $10 Million) deposited in a security firm whose depositor died in mid 2007. (Share 50/50.)

FBI in conjunction with Central Bank of Nigeria: US $ 2 Million.

From Rita Spencer I have been informed that they have found US $36 million in a dormant domiciliary account.

From the Government of Ghana: US $ 5.2 Million.

Total: $43 million.

On this list you write down anything. Even the smallest of tasks – these are in fact the most important ones.

For me to get things done I start of with the easiest tasks, those that are the quickest to get you going. When I start working following the list I quickly comes into the “tasks at hand” mode, and that is when you can start working on the heavier operations on your list.

You should try and organize your task list so that you can take breakes. So you task list could be organized like this:

• Easy task
• Not as easy
• Not easy
• Break
• Easy task
• Not as easy
• Not easy
• Break (lunch?)
• Easy task
• Not as easy
• Not easy
• Break
• Easy task
• Not as easy
• Not easy

An easy task is something that you can get done in a short amount of time, and should be a task that does not psyche you out. It is only on the list to get you started.

The reason for me to break it up like that is because after a break it can be hard to start up again, especially if there is a “not easy” task at hand. You can of course put a “Not Easy/Hard” task after lunch (after an easy-task!) so that you can brag about this tough job you are about to start after lunch. Also. The brain is in a better shape after a good meal/break.

Also: When you are working on your tasks, don’t use Twitter, Chat/IM-software or any other Online applications. Stay focused on your task and save those distractions for your break. Don’t let your breaks last to long. If you smoke it’s quite easy to jail the time because you’ll get back to your workstation when you finish up your smoke. For non-smokers (like myself), set the break to be no more than ten minutes. According to some, you spend quite a lot of minutes to get back into work mode after a break, or after being interrupted.

I have also used this technique when doing my sport – BMX Freestyle. My sessions always started with doing the easy tricks, then working towards the harder stuff. In sports terminology I believe they call this warming up.

It is also a good idea to set a goal for the day. If you are a developer, such a goal could be to fix ten bugs, implement a new feature or writing documentation. When doing BMXF I tried to have a goal to set one trick at least 10 out of 10. Another goal could be to learn a new trick (sometimes a big task!).

There are far smarter people than me who has written articles on how to get things done. Check out the links below.

Links:

www.davidco.com
www.43folders.com
How I get things done (Video on Vimeo by Jon Larkowski)
ideamatt.blogspot.com
Erlends experiences (in Norwegian)

Disclaimer: I have not read any books on how to become more productive. The blog post above is written based on personal experiences.

• HTC / Google Nexus one (Launched on January 5th…)
• Dell 2100 Latitude (with Ubuntu Linux installed, please!)
• Scalextric Race Track (Any design will do, this was just an example!)
• Great kids (Already have that, so that wish will come through!)

Reasons:

• OpenOffice is slow and not as good as MS Office
• iPod sync is not stable
• Laptop uses more battery than under XP
• Not getting enough debug/crash data when Linux Ubuntu freezes (and really freezes)
• Not enough pro level programs (Photoshop is one of them)

Reasons to stay:

• I’m mainly a PHP-developer. Having the server with you all the time is a nice thing
• Compiz is far better than anything on XP
• More stable

PHP
Professional PHP Programming (Wrox) (first PHP book that I bought)
Programming PHP (O’Reilly)
Web Database Applications with PHP and mySQL (O’Reilly)
Object-Oriented PHP (No Starch Press)
Latest additions:
Advanced PHP Programming (Developer’s Library)
CodeIgniter (Wrox)
Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP (Wrox)
PHP Cookbook (O’Reilly)
PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice (apress)
php|architect’s Guide to PHP Security (php|architect’s)
php|architect’s Guide to Date and Time Programming (php|architect’s)
Essential PHP Security (O’Reilly)

Javascript/AJAX:
Javascript The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly)
AJAX The complete Reference (Mc Graw Hill)
Professional AJAX (Wrox)
Javascript: The Good Parts (O’Reilly)
Dojo: The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly)
jQuery: Jquery Novice to Ninja (Sitepoint)

mySQL
mySQL and Perl for the Web (New Rides)
MySQL (Developer’s Library)
High Performance mySQL (O’Reilly)

Perl
Perl Cookbook (O’Reilly)
Perl for Web Site Managers (O’Reilly)

Other languages
C# 2005 (Wrox)
ASP.NET 2.0 (Wrox)

XML
XML A Beginners Guide (Mc Graw Hill)
XSLT (O’Reilly)

Other
Web Form Design (Rosenfeld)
Apache 2 Pocket Reference (O’Reilly)

• Male – 1971 model
• Interested in Linux, computers, movies, my kids, open source, php, object oriented programming
• PHP developer
• Ubuntu User
• Dell d420 owner

The long version:

I (finally) came to the world on January 5th, 1971. Must have been an easy birth as my mom tends to forget my birthday. When I reached ten years old I got into computers when my father bought an Oric-1 computer. I started learning how to write programs in the Basic language, and I got a fascination for letting the computer play music. I wasn’t that much interested in playing games. The Oric-1 got replaced by an Oric Atmos before I went out and bought myself a Commodore 64. That’s when I really started programming.
I went from Basic to Assembler/Disassembler, cracked games and was part of a cracking “group” called Jazzcat (I was Outfit – which was a name I found under Mafia in a encyclopedia). One of the things I remember from those days were that I managed to write some code that made sprites move on the screen while I could write something (using the interrupts) and that I pixel draw the Jazzcat cat that I found on a cover on a single by The Rolling Stones.

So a few years passed and I got a tad bit distracted by other interests (girls, BMX Freestyle riding) and so my programming was on hold.

Then in 1995-1996 my brother came to me and showed my the internet (which I had not heard of) and two technologies that uses the TCP/IP: IRC and the web browser. And so I got back into using computers by programming scripts under the IRC-client mIRC and websites with HTML (HTML is not programming, HTML is all about Marking up your text). Back in those days (1998-1999 – or when CSS was in it’s 1.0 period) I managed to create a newspaper layout (three columns) without using tables – just CSS.

In this period I also started writing programs in Visual Basic (1.0 to 4.0) and later on I moved to Visual Pascal (Delphi). On the web I started using (classic) ASP and put up a CMS for a website that I had back in those days. I got sick and tired of the way MS did things in ASP, and so when someone told me about PHP I tried that and haven’t really looked back since.

I have been working as a web developer (IT developer is my title on my business card) for a News Agency in Norway. My job there was to trim their web applications (Classic ASP and ASP.Net) and sometimes write applications (VB.Net) that either gather information or distribute information.

I am currently trying to set up my own Web developer company here in Norway. My applications (CMS, Webshop and Intranett) are therefor going through a serious trim in order to make them easy to install and maintain. I have currently two-three customers using the Webshop, one using the CMS and one using my Intranett solution.

If you are looking for someone who could create your web application, please do not hesitate to send an e-mail.