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There’s nothing worse than when you feel you’re thrashing. If you’ve never heard of “thrashing” then you’re likely to be one of the few lucky individuals that have never experienced it either. Thrashing happens when you have so much on your plate you end up jumping from one activity to another and never completing anything.
Thrashing originated as a computer term to describe the hard drive head as it moved across a platter of disks. This was caused by users adding a deleting files and disk fragmentation occurred where the hard drive head had to jump all over the disk surface in order to access your file. In a non-technical terminology……you hear what sounds like mice scurrying around in your PC.
The technical boffins solved this problem by constantly “defragmenting” the hard drive and rearranging all of the file parts so the hard drive head moved to one spot to pick up the file. We can learn a lot from this approach.
So the other day I found myself on three IM chats, a skype conference call, emails pouring in and a things to do list a mile long.
As an aside, I’ve used the far more sensible metric system all of my life and yet saying my things to do list is a kilometer long just doesn’t sound right. I tip my hat to all of you recalcitrant Americans who insist on still using miles, gallons and ounces rather than kilometers, liters and grams.
I’ve often wondered though how you express thousands of sometime? Is it kilogallons? Do you ask your local shop for a kilo-ounce of sugar? Then again, you’d probably end up filling up your entire kitchen with that much so probably not.
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Thrashing originated as a computer term to describe the hard drive head as it moved across a platter of disks. This was caused by users adding a deleting files and disk fragmentation occurred where the hard drive head had to jump all over the disk surface in order to access your file. In a non-technical terminology……you hear what sounds like mice scurrying around in your PC.
The technical boffins solved this problem by constantly “defragmenting” the hard drive and rearranging all of the file parts so the hard drive head moved to one spot to pick up the file. We can learn a lot from this approach.
So the other day I found myself on three IM chats, a skype conference call, emails pouring in and a things to do list a mile long.
As an aside, I’ve used the far more sensible metric system all of my life and yet saying my things to do list is a kilometer long just doesn’t sound right. I tip my hat to all of you recalcitrant Americans who insist on still using miles, gallons and ounces rather than kilometers, liters and grams.
I’ve often wondered though how you express thousands of sometime? Is it kilogallons? Do you ask your local shop for a kilo-ounce of sugar? Then again, you’d probably end up filling up your entire kitchen with that much so probably not.
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