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Plants vs Zombies is quite silly - specially if you played a lot of the tower defense games, from which it clearly got inspiration. That said, it's still pretty cool. The variety of plants and zombie types is huge - and quite funny. The strategic choices of plants per level depending on the mode and related hazards is nice. And the many mini-games and puzzle modes give it a little more staying power. Garlic alone makes a replay fairly different: you can cheaply cut out the number of lanes using it. While it felt too slow and silly at the beginning, it really won me over. One final piece of advice - get Plants vs Zombies cheap at Steam . It's half the price of the official Popcap site.

My ability for procrastination is quite impressive. I finished Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware in December of 2008, but kept putting blogging about it since then. That's not as impressive as the book about avoiding procrastination I've started reading several years ago, though... I guess I should try reading it again. About Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware - it's pretty good. There are a number of suggestions on how to improve your learning abilities, your focus, problem solving, etc. All seems very well reasoned and well explained. I'll also try to post more. It's actually one of the ideas on the book, and over the past year I've had the urge to blog about dozens of little and large things, but kept putting them off.